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Abolitionist Intimacies by El Jones
Through characteristically fierce and personal prose and poetry, and motivated by a decade of prison justice work, Jones observes that abolition is not only a political movement to end prisons; it is also an intimate one deeply motivated by commitment and love.
Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety by Cara Page; Erica Woodland; Aurora Levins Morales (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 2023-02-07
A profound offering and call to action-collective stories, testimonials, and incantations for renewing political and spiritual liberation grounded in Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and Queer and Trans healing justice lineages.
Ineligible: Single Mothers Under Welfare Surveillance by Krys Maki
Krys Maki unpacks in-depth interviews with Ontario Works caseworkers, anti-poverty activists, and single mothers on assistance in Kingston, Peterborough, and Toronto, and employs intersectional feminist political economy and critical surveillance theory to contextualize the ways neoliberal welfare reforms have subjected low-income single mothers to intensive state surveillance.
Inuvialuit reflections on Shingle Point Residential School: the diary & photographs of Bessie Quirt by Gruben, Ethel-Jean; Johnson, Val Marie; Kotokak, Lena; Kuptana, Lucy
Publication Date: 2023
This book contains Inuvialuit Reflections on the living history of residential schools and colonialism in their homeland, through the research and community-annotated diary of Anglican missionary Bessie Quirt. Quirt was the first teacher at the earliest residential school for Inuit children, based at Shingle Point (Tapqaq) in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. The 1929-1932 diary transcript contains 109 of Quirt's photographs.

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D African history

E American history

H Social science research

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HQ The Family. Marriage. Women

HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology

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Fernwood Publishing
Fernwood Publishing is an independent Canadian publisher that publishes non-fiction books dealing with social justice and issues of social, political and economic importance.
Between the Lines Books
Between the Lines Books is an independent Toronto-based publisher of non-fiction, most of which offers a critical perspective on culture, economics, and society.
Haymarket Books
Based in Chicago, Haymarket Books aims to publish books that deal with social and economic justice.
Verso Books
Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year.

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Coloniality and Racial (In)Justice in the University: Counting for Nothing? by Sunera Thobani (Editor)
Coloniality and Racial (In)Justice in the University examines the disruption and remaking of the university at a moment in history when white supremacist politics have erupted across North America, as have anti-racist and anti-colonial movements.
Postcolonial Whiteness by Alfred J. Lopez (Editor)
Postcolonial Whiteness examines the interrelations between whiteness and the history of European colonialism, as well as the status of whiteness in the contemporary postcolonial world.
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism by Gerald Horne
Centering his book on the Eastern Seaboard of North America, the Caribbean, Africa, and what is now Great Britain, Horne provides a deeply researched, harrowing account of the apocalyptic loss and misery that likely has no parallel in human history.
As We Have Always Done by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
In As We Have Always Done, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, organizing, and thinking.
Rethinking the Great White North by Audrey Kobayashi; Laura Cameron; Andrew Baldwin
Rethinking the Great White North offers a new vocabulary for contemporary debates on Canada's role in the North and the meaning of the nation.

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