Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity

10 best books like Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity (Aurora Levins Morales): Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, Consensual Genocide, June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint, This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation, From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i, Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology, Scars Tell Stories: A Queer and Trans (Dis)ability Zine, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century

Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde

Author	Alexis De Veaux
ISBN	0393329356

During her lifetime, Audre Lorde (1934-1992), author of the landmark Cancer Journals, created a mythic identity for herself that retains its vitality to this day. Drawing from the private archives of the poet's estate and numerous interviews, Alexis De Veaux demystifies Lorde's iconic status,...

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision

Author	Barbara Ransby
ISBN	0807856169

One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable career spanned fifty years and touched thousands of lives.

A gifted grassroots organizer,...

Consensual Genocide

Author	Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
ISBN	1894770293

This long-awaited first collection of poetry by queer Sri Lankan writer and spoken-word artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is full of the stories we've been waiting for. Tracing bloodlines from Sri Lanka's civil wars to Brooklyn and Toronto streets, these fierce poems are full of heart and...

June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint

Author	June Jordan
ISBN	0415911680

I don't really know what to make of this book, or even how to describe it. The book grew out of the famous poetry class that June Jordan taught at Berkeley for many years, and it's something of a hodge podge. The book is essentially a compilation of materials for and by the class: student writings (both poetry...

This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation

Author	Gloria E. Anzaldúa
ISBN	0415936829

Over 20 years after the ground-breaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back challenged feminists to envision new forms of communities and practices, Gloria E. Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating have brought together an ambitious new collection of over 80 original contributions offering a bold new...

From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i

Author	Haunani-Kay Trask
ISBN	0824820592

Since its publication in 1993, From a Native Daughter, a provocative, well-reasoned attack against the rampant abuse of Native Hawaiian rights, institutional racism, and gender discrimination, has generated heated debates in Hawai'i and throughout the world. This 1999 revised work includes...

Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology

Author

Incite! Women of Color Against Violence

What would it take to end violence against women of color? How does the mainstream antiviolence movement help? How does it hinder? When will we admit that repositioning women of color at the center of the movement--women more often harmed by the police, prisons, and border patrols than aided by them--means...

Scars Tell Stories: A Queer and Trans (Dis)ability Zine

Author

Colin Kennedy Donovan

Through poetry, art, and essays, this zine tells our stories—funny, sexy, and complex—as a radical act of resistance, and prioritizes the work of trans people and people of color working for radical social change.

Featuring artwork, poetry, and essays by Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Sarain...

All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life

Author	Winona LaDuke
ISBN	0896085996

This eagerly awaited non-fiction debut by acclaimed Native environmental activist Winona LaDuke is a thoughtful and in-depth account of Native resistance to environmental and cultural degradation.LaDuke's unique understanding of Native ideas and people is born from long years of experience,...

De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century

Author

Elizabeth Martínez

The unique Chicana voice of Elizabeth Martinez arises from more than thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women's liberation, and Latina/o empowerment.With sections on women's organizing, struggles for economic justice. and the Latina/o youth movement, De Colores Means...

Methodology of the Oppressed

Author	Chela Sandoval
ISBN	0816627371

In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World feminism" into the narrative in a way that thoroughly alters our perspective on contemporary culture and subjectivity.What...

Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability

Author	Robert McRuer
ISBN	0814757138

Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze...

Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood

Author	Cherríe L. Moraga
ISBN	1563410923

Cherrie Moraga, the celebrated Chicana lesbian writer, has crafted a jewel of a book in Waiting In The Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood. This is the story of "one small human being's struggle for survival", the author's two-and-one-half pound premature baby boy.While the specifics belong to...

Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism

Author	Elly Bulkin
ISBN	0932379532

Politics. Cultural Writing. New to SPD. The award-winning feminist and lesbian press Firebrand Books closed its doors last year after sixteen years in the business. The authors of YOURS IN STRUGGLE -- Elly Bulkin, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and Barbara Smith -- have now made the 1988 Firebrand edition of...

Memoir of a Race Traitor

Author	Mab Segrest
ISBN	0896084744

I'm having a time in my life right now. I'll spare the details for this forum, but it has lead to my decision to read exclusively lesbian memoirs. I'm needing a bit of reflection in my life.

This book seemed like an obvious choice. I have a lot of surface commonalities with the author, Mab Segrest:...

The Angela Y. Davis Reader

Author	Angela Y. Davis
ISBN	0631203613

For three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on liberation theory and democratic praxis. Challenging the foundations of mainstream discourse, her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race have profoundly influenced democratic theory, antiracist feminism, critical studies and political...

Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body

Author	Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
ISBN	0814782221

Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The disabled. The very hirsute. In American history, all have shared the platform equally, as freaks, human oddities, their only commonality their assigned role of anomalous other to the gathered...

Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond

Author	David Gilbert
ISBN	1604863196

Written from the maximum-security prison where he has lived for almost 30 years, this enlightening memoir chronicles the militant career of David Gilbert, a radical activist whose incarceration is due to his involvement in the 1981 Brinks robbery, an attempted expropriation that resulted in four...

Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination

Author	Alondra Nelson
ISBN	0816676488

Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable but...

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

Author	Saidiya V. Hartman
ISBN	0195089847

In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity. Scenes of Subjection examines the forms of domination that usually go undetected; in particular, the encroachments...

Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment

Author	James I. Charlton
ISBN	0520224817

James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities....

Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice

Author	Paul Kivel
ISBN	0865714592

Continuously at the top of New Society Publishers’ best-seller list for five years, Uprooting Racism has sold over 25,000 copies since its first printing. Substantially revised and expanded, the new edition has more tools to help white people understand and stand-up to racism.

Uprooting...