Books- Equity
From Provisions
(diff) ←Older revision | Current revision | Newer revision→ (diff)
To recommend books on Equity, see the Equity- Further Reading page.
Books in the Exhibition
The Belt Ahmed Abodehman
Saqi Books, 2002
The founding of a government school in a rural Saudi Arabian village ushers in a new world that threatens the old ways of the village kept alive by Hizam, a tribal elder and storyteller.
The Pre-Occupation of Post-Colonial Studies
Fawzia Afzal-Khan (Ed.)
Duke University Press, 2000
Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate
Leila Ahmed
Yale University Press, 1993
Using the analytical tools of contemporary gender studies, Ahmed surveys Islamic discourse on women and debates it in its social and historical context: Arabia during the period in which Islam was founded, Iraq during the classical age, and Egypt during the modern era.
Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto
Taiaiake Alfred
Oxford University Press, 1999
A timely and inspiring essay that calls on the indigenous peoples of North America to move beyond their 500-year history of pain, loss, and colonization and make self-determination a reality.
Uprising!: Political Upheavals that have Shaped the World
Mark Almond
Mitchell Beazley, 2002
Stolen Lives: Trading Women in Sex and Slavery
Sietske Altink
Haworth Press, 1996
Exposes how women are hired in their country of origin, transported, left without money, passports, or permits and become trapped into prostitution or domestic slavery.
Heinemann, 1986
A portrait of the aftermath of the Biafran War, a shattering period brought to life through the very different experiences of ordinary people, written by one of Nigeria's leading novelists.
All the Power: Revolution Without Illusion
Mark Andersen
Akashic Books, 2004
This “anti-manifesto” challenges popular concepts of radical activism, taking aim at the illusions that tend to keep North American radicals self-satisfied but ineffective.
Views from the South: The Effects of Globalization and the WTO on Third World Countries
Sarah Anderson (Ed.)
The International Forum of Globalization, 2000
Reinaldo Arenas
Penguin Books, 1994
In this, the final volume in the series of five novels that constitute his "secret history of Cuba," Reinaldo Arenas paints a Kafka-esque picture of a dehumanized people living in a world where homosexuality is a crime punishable by death and a cockroach hunt makes for a national holiday.
African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame
Beacon Press, 2005
Focuses on the stories passed down from generation to generation among the Anlo Ewe community in southern Ghana—an area once known as the Slave Coast-to tell the story of the slave trade from the African perspective.
Zones of Contention: Essays on Art, Institutions, Gender, and Anxiety
State University of New York Press, 1996
Examines areas of controversy in art, addressing issues such as the place of art and artists in society, women in the workplace and academia, male bonding, etc.
Adrian Piper: A Retrospective
Maurice Berger
Distributed Art Publishers, 1999
Citizens Dissent: Security, Morality, and Leadership in an Age of Terror
Wendell Berry, David James Duncan
The Orion Society, 2003
Same-sex Relations and Female Desires: Transgender Practices Across Cultures
Evelyn Blackwood & Saskia E. Wieringa, eds.
Columbia University Press, 1999
Black Panthers for Beginners
Herb Boyd, Lance Tooks (illustrations)
Writers and Readers Publishing, 1995
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
Anchor, 1993
Elaine Brown's memoir of coming to power as the national leader of the Black Panther Party.
Linda Frye Burnham and Steven Durland (Eds.)
Critical Press, 1998
Chronicles the work of artists devoted to breaking down the proverbial wall between participant and spectator, compiling articles, artwork, and essays from twenty years of High Performance magazine.
And It Don't Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years
Raquel Cepeda (Ed.)
Faber & Faber, 2004
An important look at an energetic, inventive culture and the writers who have covered it.
Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy
Grace Chang
South End Press, 2000
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Picador USA, 2005
Based on original interviews with DJs, b-boys, rappers, graffiti writers, activists, and gang members, with unforgettable portraits of many of hip-hop's forebears, founders, and mavericks, including DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Chuck D, and Ice Cube.
Bridge: Building a Race and Immigration Dialogue in the Global Economy
Eunice Hyunhye Cho et al.
National NEtwork for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, 2004
A popular education resource for immigrant and refugee community organizers.
Acts of Rebellion: A Ward Churchill Reader
Routledge, 2002
Valuable collection of forceful writings by an influential Native American leader.
Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema and the Colonization of American Indians
Ward Churchill
City Lights Books, 1998
Recalling Local Pasts: Autonomous History in Southeast Asia
Sunait Chutintaranond and Christopher John Baker (Eds.)
The modern states of Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam thread their way back into the past, and the emergence of these states, the importance of their capitals, and the power of their dynasties have been the dominant themes of the history of the region.
Radical Street Performance: an international anthology
Jan Cohen-Cruz, ed.
Routledge, 1998
¡Si, Se Puede! / Yes, We Can!: Janitor Strike in L.A.
Diana Cohn and Francisco Delgado
Cinco Puntos Press, 2002
Illustrated story of how a young boy helps his mother strike for higher wages.
Shirin Neshat
Hamid Dabashi, et al.
Charta, 2002.
Critical Essays on the work of the renowned Iranian photographer and video artist.
Family Legacies: The Art of [http://wiki.provisionslibrary.org/wiki/index.php/Betye_Saar Betye, Lezley, and Alison Saar]
Jessica Dallow & Barbara C. Matilsky
University of Washington Press, 2005
Exhibition catalogue charting the flow of ideas and techniques between three artists related both by subject and blood.
Portraits of the Artist as a Young Trannie
Darby
Self-Published
Beyond the Horizon
Amma Darko
Schmetterling Verlag, 1991
Mis Taken Brilliance
Kahil El'Zabar
Third World Press, 1993
Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives
Cynthia Enloe
University of California Press, 2000
Lesbian and Bisexual Identities: Constructing Communities, Constructing Selves
Kristin G. Esterberg
Temple University Press, 1997
Examines the stories of lesbian and bisexual women in a Northeast community who share who they are, how they have come to see themselves as lesbian or bisexual, and what those identities mean to them.
Roxanne Swentzell: Extra-Ordinary People
Gussie Fauntleroy
New Mexico Magazine, 2002
Collection of images of the prolific sculptor's figurative clay sculptures, with accompanying essay.
Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart
Liza Featherstone
Basic Books, 2004
But Is It Art?: The Spirit of Art As Activism
Nina Felshin (Ed.)
Bay Press (WA), 1994
Twelve clearly written essays examining numerous case-studies of art created and used for activist purposes.
Graffiti World:Street Art from Five Continents
Nicholas Ganz
Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 2004
Amitav Ghosh
Houghton Mifflin, 1988
Follows two families - one English, one bengali - through decades of violence in Bengal, observing the ways in which political events invade private lives.
Fugitive Cultures
Routledge, 1996
Examines how youth are being increasingly subjected to racial stereotyping and violence in various realms of popular culture, especially children's culture, and calls for a reinvigorated critical relationship between cultural studies and those diverse cultural workers committed to expanding the possibilities and practices of democratic public life.
The Design of Dissent
Milton Glaser & Mirko Ilic
Rockport Publishers, inc., 2005
Baby No-Eyes
Patricia Grace
University of Hawaii Press, 1998
Tawena and his sister are inseparable, in a relationship that is impossible for others to share. In fact his whole whanau is bonded by secrets, a genealogy stitched together by shame, joy, love, and sometimes grief
Animal Liberation: A Graphic Guide
Lori Gruen, Peter Singer, David Hine
Camden Press, 1987
Invisible Life: A Novel
E. Lynn Harris
Doubleday, 1991
Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry
Essex Hemphill
Plume, 1992
The Huey P. Newton Reader
David Hilliard (Ed.)
Seven Stories Press, 2002
Delphine Hirasuna
Ten Speed Press, 2005
Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internement Camps 1942-1946.
Lawson Fusao Inada
Coffee House Press, 1993
Inada acts the part of Poet-Statesman giving us access to his unique first-hand experiences which happen to be a part of American history.
Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change
Cynthia Kaufman
South End Press, 2003
encourages inquiry and further investigation, offering readers the information to orient a critical understanding of the social world and a glimpse of the excitement and rewards of serious intellectual engagement with political ideas
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
Robin D. G. Kelley
Beacon Press, 2002
The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
Jonathan Kozol
Three Rivers Press, 2005
Pays tribute to those undefeated educators who persist against the odds, while directly challenging the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration.
Assholes, Politicians, Economists, & Cops
Let It Be Known
Self Published, 2002
Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex
Judith Levine
Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002
Minidoka Revisited: The Paintings of Roger Shimomura
William W Lew
University of Washington Press, 2005.
Chronicles experiences of racial and ethnic stereotyping endured by Asian Americans in recent history, from the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, to contemporary everyday instances of cultural insensitivity.
Get the Message?: A Decade of Art for Social Change
Lucy R. Lippard
E.P. Dutton, 1984
In My Family/En Mi Familia
Carmen Lomas Garza
Children's Book Press, 1996.
Lomas Garza uses her narrative paintings to relate her memories of growing up in Kingsville, Texas, near the Mexican border, and to reflect her pride in her Mexican American heritage
Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory
Miriam Ching Louie
South End Press, 2001
Unveiling Traditions: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World
Anouar Majid
Duke University Press, 2000
issues a challenge to the West to reimagine Islam as a progressive world culture and a participant in the building of a multicultural and more egalitarian world civilization
Stencil Graffiti
Triston Manco
Thames & Hudson, 2002
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights
David Margolick
Running Press, 2000
Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese-American Internment Camps
Mary Matsuda Gruenewald (Family #19788)
NewSage Press, 2005
In this eloquent memoir, the author describes both the day-to-day and the dramatic turning points of the Japanese-American internment.
Spirits of the Cloth: Contemporary African American Quilts
Carolyn Mazloomi
Clarkson Potter, 1998
Women for Afghan Women: Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future
Sunita Mehta (Ed.)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002
Includes a variety of female voices, highlighting a unifying desire to come together as women and share, network, and strategize for change.
Carnival Strippers
Susan Meiselas
Whitney Museum of American Art, 1976
From 1972 to 1975, Susan Meiselas spent her summers photographing and interviewing women who performed striptease for small town carnivals in New England, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. This volume includes those photographs and excerpts from the interviews.
Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching: A Resource Guide for K-12 Classrooms
Deborah Menkart, Alana D. Murray, Jenice L. View, eds.
Teaching for Change, 2004
Revolution: Faces of Change
John Miller and Aaron Kenedi (Eds.)
Thunder's Mouth Press, 2000
Collects 25 portraits of charismatic leaders - the revolutionaries - who insisted on change in the face of oppression; who persevered through ridicule, conflict, and often violent opposition; and whose human spirit has kept their legends alive.
Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality
Patrick Moore
Beacon Press, 2004
Instead of Prisons: Prison Research Education Action Project
Mark Morris, ed.
Fay Knopp & Jon Regier, 1976; Critical Resistance, 2005
A handbook for abolitionists; republished with a new forward by Critical Resistance.
Women's Activism and Globalization: Linking Local Struggles and Transnational Politics
Nancy A. Naples and Manisha Desai (Eds.)
Routledge, 2002
A broad and comprehensive collection that shows how women activists across the globe are responding to the forces of the "new world order" in their communities.
Mass Transit
Maniza Naqvi
Oxford University Press, 1998
That's the Joint!: The Hip-hop Studies Reader
Mark Anth Neal
Routledge. 2004
Brings together the best-known and most influential writings on rap and hip-hop from its beginnings to today, spanning nearly 25 years of scholarship, criticism, and journalism.
Charta, 2005
A compilation of the renowned Iranian photophrapher and video artist's work from 2002-2005.
Touba and the Meaning of Night
Shahruush Parsipur
Feminist press at the City College of New York, 2006
Women without Men: A Novella
Shahruush Parsipur
Syracuse University Press, 1998
The Art of Getting Over: Graffiti at the Millennium
Stephen Powers
St. Martin's Press, 1999
Fundamentalism
David Rabeeya
Xlibris Corporation, 2004
Southland
Nina Revoyr and Dennis Cooper
Akashic Books, 2003
While trying to fulfill a request from her grandfather's will, the young Japanese-American woman, Jackie Ishida, discovers that 4 black teenagers were killed in store her grandfather ran during the Watts Riots of 1965 -- and that the murders were never solved or reported. Along with a cousin of one of the victims, she tries to piece together the story of the boys' deaths.
Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops
Robert J.S. Ross
University of Michigan Press, 2004
The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994
Vintage, 1995
Collection of 37 political essays from the past 25 years, Said emphasizes that the Palestinians are a people with their own history, society and right to self-determination.
Sangmie Choi Schellstede (Ed.)
Soon Mi Yu (Photographer)
[1] Holmes & Meier Publishers], 2000
During World War II, an estimated 200,000 girls and young women were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese imperial military, which was authorized by the highest levels of Japan's wartime government. This system resulted in the largest, most methodical and most deadly mass rape of women in recorded history.
Shirin Neshat
Britta Schmitz & Beatrice E. Stammer eds.
Steidl, 2005
documents the first installments of Neshat's feature length film about the work of Shahrnush Parsipur, author of Women without Men. Neshat began her project 15 years after the book was banned in 1989 and its author imprisoned.
Consuming the Caribbean
Mimi Sheller
Routledge, 2003
Working Poor: Invisible in America
Vintage Books USA, 2005
Presents a searing, intimate portrait of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty.
Shahzia Sikander: The Renaissance Society
The University of Chicago Press, 1998
Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia
J. Douglas Smith
University of N. Carolina Press, 2002
Tracing the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia, Smith reveals a surprising fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology
Amy Sonnie, ed.
Alyson Publications, 2000
South End Press Collective, 1998
In nine accessible, personal interviews, these activists and writers let readers know their most deeply held beliefs and hopes for the progressive movements they have worked to build over the last two decades.
Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment
James Christen Steward, et al.
University of California Press, 2005.
Critical essays surveying the artist's career from the 1960's to the present day.
Hanging without a Rope: Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland
Mary Margaret Steedly
Princeton University Press, 1993
Re-take of Amrita
Vivian Sundaram
Tulika Books, 2001
Full Metal Apache: Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America
Takayuki Tatsumi
Duke University Press, 2006
Native American Fiction: A User's Manual
David Treuer
Graywolf Press, 2006
Investigates a selection of the most important Native American novels and examines the intricate process of understanding literature on its own terms.
No More Prisons.
William Upski Wimsatt
Subway and Elevated Books
Robert And Mabel Williams Resource Guide
Freedom Archives, 2005
Includes the full text of "Self-Respect, Self-Defense, and Self-Determination"--the Freedom Archives audio documentary on Robert and Mabel Williams
Against Civilization 2nd Edition
Feral House, 2005
Well known for his anarchist critique of technology and his work on the origins of our contemporary society in crisis, John Zerzan offers an anthology of critical commentary on civilization itself, from the Greeks to the Unabomber.
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
City Lights, 2007
Approaches the telling of U.S. history from an active, engaged point of view, drawing upon untold histories to comment on today's issues of government dishonesty, terrorism, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the loss of our liberties... and the civic responsibility to confront power for the common good.
Further Reading
Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Movements: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Movements
Richard Antoun
Altamira Press, 2001
Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Solidarity in the Americas: The Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice
Ralph Armbruster-sandoval
Routledge, 2004
Ahmed Omar Askar
Haan Associates, 1992
Covers the Somali colonial past and its implications for the independent nation state in later decades, offering a picture of modern Somali history from an indigenous perspective.
Opening the Gates: An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing
Margot Badran and Miriam Cooke (Eds.)
Indiana University Press, 2004
A collection of stories, speeches, essays, poems and memoirs, bearing fierce testimony to a tradition of brave Arab feminist writing in the face of subjugation by a Muslim patriarchy.
Global South Asians: Introducing the Modern Diaspora (New Approaches to Asian History)
Judith M. Brown
Cambridge University Press, 2007
AIDS, While The World Sleeps: The First Twenty Years of the Global AIDS Plague
Chris Bull (Ed.)
Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003
A diverse collection of essays that puts some historical, as well as emotional, context to the worldwide AIDS pandemic.
Christopher S. Clapham (Ed.)
Indiana University Press, 1998
A collection of case-studies outlining political movements in Africa.
The Other Women's Movement
Dorothy Sue Cobble
Princeton University Press, 2005
Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature
Miriam Cooke
Routledge, 2000
Can We Put an End to Sweatshops?: A New Democracy Form on Raising Global Labor Standards (New Democracy Forum Series)
Archon Fung
Beacon Press, 2001
Dawn Gill and Les Levidow (Eds.)
Free Association Books, 1987
Since 1984, a group of science teachers has examined the philosophical assumptions of the scientific world view, as well as particular disciplines and curricula. This book presents the results of their work toward developing anti-racist science curricula.
But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies
Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith (Eds.)
The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1982
Covers issues ranging from racism in higher education and the women's movement to the politics of African-American women's studies and Black feminism.
Alec Irwin and Joyce Millen
South End Press, 2003
Shatters 10 myths about HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention while calling for an international movement to fight the disease.
Women and Power in the Middle East
Suad Joseph and Susan Slyomovics (Eds.)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000
Seventeen essays that analyze the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that shape gender systems in the Middle East and North Africa.
Slavery, Imperialism, and Freedom: Studies in English Radical Thought
Gordon K. Lewis
Monthly Review Press, 1978
Panorama of English radical thought stretching from the eighteenth-century debate on empire and slavery to the contemporary question of race and color in Britain.
Indigenous Autonomy in Mexico
Aracely Cal y Mayor
IWGIA, 2002
This important collection of essays is compulsory reading for all those who wish to gain a better understanding of the dynamic processes of change which Mexico and its indigenous peoples have undergone.
Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East
Vintage, 1994
An instant classic for describing, in merciless detail, what happens when the traditions of an ancient and long-lived society are turned into commodities and sold to those who don't understand them.
Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop
Imani Perry
Duke University Press, 2005
Negotiating Reproductive Rights
Rosalind Petchesky and Karen Judd (Eds.)
Zed Books, 1998
Collectively authored book from The International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group's four years of collaborative research and analysis in Brazil, Egypt, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, and the United States.
The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature
Joy Porter and Kenneth M. Roemer eds.
Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Provides an informative and wide-ranging overview of a relatively new field of literary-cultural studies: literature of many genres in English by American Indians from the 1770s to the present day.
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Arnold Rampersad (Ed.)
Vintage Classics, 1994
Emergence of the Modern Mexican Woman: Her Participation in Revolution and Struggle for Equality, 1910-1940 (Women and Modern Revolution Series)
Shirlene Soto
Arden Press Inc., 1990
The first book in English on women's participation in the Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) and the Mexican women's rights movement during this thirty-year period.
Herber Schiller
Routledge, 1995
Privatization and the corporate economy directly affect our most highly prized democratic institutions: schools and libraries, media, and political culture.
Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran
Hamid Severi
International Arts and Artists, 2005
Women in Islam
Margaret Speaker-yuan (Ed.)
Greenhaven Press, 2005
The Revolution of Everyday Life
Raoul Vaneigem
Rebel Press, 2001
Triangle: Fire That Changed America
David Von Drehle
Grove Press, 2003
Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America
Kay B. Warren and Jean E. Jackson (Eds.)
University of Texas Press, 2003
Rich case studies of movements in Colombia, Guatemala, and Brazil that weigh the degree of success achieved by indigenous leaders in influencing national agendas when governments display highly ambivalent attitudes about strengthening ethnic diversity.
On Lynchings
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Humanity Books, 2002
The Black Female Body: A Photographic History
Deborah Willis
Temple University Press, 2002
Making Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body
Traise Yamamoto
University of California Press, 1999
