Books related to ProtestThe Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
by Jonathan Metzl
Description : A powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness The civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But a very different civil rights history evolved at the Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insa...more..
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Protest Stencil Toolkit
by Patrick Thomas
Description : This book contains 46 die-cut stencils and a stencil typeface which can be used to create slogans and powerful visual messages. The stencils reflect the concerns of our times, such as the environment and the financial system, and include some examples from the great protest movements of the 20th cen...more..
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Protest with Chinese Characteristics: Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty
by Ho-fung Hung
Description : The origin of political modernity has long been tied to the Western history of protest and revolution, the currents of which many believe sparked popular dissent worldwide. Reviewing nearly one thousand instances of protest in China from the eighteenth to the early-nineteenth centuries, Ho-fung H...more..
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PROTEST! (Street Protest, Direct Action, Myth America, Black Cross, Indy Media, CopWatch, EarthFirst! and more...)
by Kirsten Anderberg
Description : This book contains 41 articles ranging in topic from protest tactics to street medics, beauty pageant protests, eco-defense and direct action, taking kids to protests, Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir, Whirlmart, Ladies Against Women, Tent Cities, alternative media including pirate radio a...more..
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She Walked for All of Us, One Woman's 1971 Protest Against an Illegal War
by Louise Bruyn
Description : Someone ought to walk to Washington to tell the government to stop this war! - Louise Bruyn Louise Bruyn did just that 1971 - America has been at war in Vietnam for almost six years. The death toll is rising, both for the U.S., and for the "enemy." Louise Bruyn had enough! It was time to do somethin...more..
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Poems, Protest, and a Dream (Penguin Classics)
by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Description : Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695) wrote her most famous prose work, La Respuesta a Sor Filotea, in 1691 in response to her bishop's injunction against her intellectual pursuits. A passionate and subversive defense of the rights of women to study, to teach, and to write, it predates by almost a c...more..
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Protest and Opportunities: The Political Outcomes of Social Movements
by Felix Kolb
Description : Although grass-roots social movements are an important force of social and political change, they quite often fail to achieve their lofty goals. Similarly, the inability of research to systematically explain the impact of such movements stands in sharp contrast to their emotional appeal. ...more..
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The Double V: How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military
by Rawn James Jr.
Description : Executive Order 9981, issued by President Harry Truman on July 26, 1948, desegregated all branches of the United States military by decree. EO 9981 is often portrayed as a heroic and unexpected move by Truman. But in reality, Truman's history-making order was the culmination of more than 150 ye...more..
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People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play (New Press People's History)
by Dave Zirin
Description : In this long-awaited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog The Edge of Sports” is read each week by thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riotously entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sporting characters and dramatic contests and what amoun...more..
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Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation (Discovering America)
by William Hogeland
Description : Recent movements such as the Tea Party and anti-tax "constitutional conservatism" lay claim to the finance and taxation ideas of America's founders, but how much do we really know about the dramatic clashes over finance and economics that marked the founding of America? Dissenting from both right...more..
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