Profound, lyrical, shocking, wise: the short story is capable of almost anything. This collection of the 100 finest stories ever written ranges from the essential to the unexpected, the traditional to the surreal. Wide in scope, both beautiful and vast, this is the perfect companion for any fiction lover.
Here are Man Booker Prize winners and Nobel Laureates, childhood favourites and neglected masters, twenty-first century wits and national treasures.
Featuring an all-star cast of authors, including Julian Barnes, Angela Carter, Anton Chekhov, Roald Dahl, Penelope Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Ian McEwan, Alice Munro, V.S. Pritchett, Thomas Pynchon and Muriel Spark, THAT GLIMPSE OF TRUTH is the biggest, most handsome collection of short fiction in print today.

The Truth That Never Hurts brings together for the first time more than two decades of literary criticism & political thought about gender, race, sexuality, power & social change. As one of the first writers in the United States to claim Black feminism for Black women in the early seventies, this authors works has been ground breaking in defining a Black women's literary tradition; in examining the sexual politics of the lives of Black & other women of color; in representing the lives of Black lesbians & gay men; & in making connections between race, class, sexuality, & gender. Her essay "Toward a Black Feminist Criticism," is often cited as a major catalyst in opening the field of Black women's literature. This essay also presented the first serious discussion of Black lesbian writing. Essays about racism in the women's movement, Black & Jewish relations, & homophobia in the Black community have ignited dialogue about topics that few other writers address. The collection also brings together topical political commentaries that examine the 1968 Chicago convention demonstrations; attacks on the NEA; the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas Senate hearings; & police brutality against Rodney King & Abner Louima. It also includes a never before published personal essay on racial violence, the day-to-day life of Kitchen Table Press, & the bonds between Black women that make it possible to survive. This authors writing offers a rare combination of intellectual challenge & an accessible personal voice. her commitment to telling the truth about difficult, even volatile issues, makes a unique contribution to American literature & social thought.

Contemporary urban spaces are critical sites of resistance for black women. By focusing on the spatial aspects of political resistance of black women in Newark, this book provides new ways of understanding the complex dynamics and innovative political practices within major American cities.

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women.

“Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard.”—The New York Times

Angela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably hampered any collective ambitions. While Black women were aided by some activists like Sarah and Angelina Grimke and the suffrage cause found unwavering support in Frederick Douglass, many women played on the fears of white supremacists for political gain rather than take an intersectional approach to liberation. Here, Davis not only contextualizes the legacy and pitfalls of civil and women’s rights activists, but also discusses Communist women, the murder of Emmitt Till, and Margaret Sanger’s racism. Davis shows readers how the inequalities between Black and white women influence the contemporary issues of rape, reproductive freedom, housework and child care in this bold and indispensable work.

After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Using examples from politics, films, fiction, work and education, it argues that capitalist realism colours all areas of contemporary experience. But it will also show that, because of a number of inconsistencies and glitches internal to the capitalist reality program capitalism in fact is anything but realistic.

AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH PICK

By turns harrowing and hopeful, MAKE IT COUNT is the inspiring story of the first openly transgender woman to win a NCAA title, following her traditional upbringing in Jamaica, her fight to become a US citizen, and her efforts to achieve her Olympic dreams.

CeCé Telfer is a warrior. The first openly transgender woman to win an NCAA championship, she has contended with transphobia on and off the track since childhood. Now, she stands at the crossroads of a national and international conversation about equity in sports, forced to advocate for her personhood and rights at every turn. After spending years training for the 2024 Olympics, Telfer has been sidelined and silenced more times than she can count. But she's never been good at taking no for an answer.

MAKE IT COUNT is Telfer's raw and inspiring story. From coming of age in Jamaica, where she grew up hearing a constant barrage of slurs, to beginning her new life in Toronto and then New Hampshire, where she realized what running could offer her, to living in the backseat of her car while searching for a coach, to Mexico, where she trained for the US Trials, this book follows the arc of Telfer's Olympic dream.

This is the story of running on what feels like the edge of a knife, of what it means to compete when you're not just an athlete but treated like a walking controversy. But it's also the story of resilience and athleticism, of a runner who found a clarity in her sport that otherwise eluded her—a sense of being simply alive on this earth, a human moving through space. Finally, herself.
 

Analyses how conservative and anti-feminist ideas are filtered through social media, and how we can collectively fight back against them to reclaim our future online.

Analysing a wide range of online communities and subcultures, Alice Capelle shows how an unprecedented backlash against women is being orchestrated online.

Covering everything from the reactionary politics of the "manosphere" to hookup culture, traditional feminity, the politics of sexual liberation and liberal-friendly lifestyle content, Collapse Feminism shows how the future of feminism is being determined in these online spaces, and what this means for women in the twenty-first century.

As conservative and anti-feminist political groups grow in power and popularity online and in the real world, it is urgent that we collectively reject political ideas that harm people of all genders, and instead work to create a freer, fairer and more creative future for all.

<b>INSTANT </b><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER</b> <br /><br /><b>A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation<br /></b><br />For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this dialectic has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself.<br /><br />Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors illustrate how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual blinders and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing during all that time? If agriculture and cities did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organizations did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more open to playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.<br /><br /><i>The Dawn of Everything</i> fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and begins to imagine new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.

Called “powerful and provocative" by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist, this explosive book of history and cultural criticism reveals how white feminism has been used as a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women, and women of color.

Taking us from the slave era, when white women fought in court to keep “ownership” of their slaves, through the centuries of colonialism, when they offered a soft face for brutal tactics, to the modern workplace, White Tears/Brown Scars tells a charged story of white women’s active participation in campaigns of oppression. It offers a long overdue validation of the experiences of women of color.

Discussing subjects as varied as The Hunger Games, Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez, the viral BBQ Becky video, and 19th century lynchings of Mexicans in the American Southwest, Ruby Hamad undertakes a new investigation of gender and race. She shows how the division between innocent white women and racialized, sexualized women of color was created, and why this division is crucial to confront.

Along the way, there are revelatory responses to questions like: Why are white men not troubled by sexual assault on women? (See Christine Blasey Ford.) With rigor and precision, Hamad builds a powerful argument about the legacy of white superiority that we are socialized within, a reality that we must apprehend in order to fight.

"A stunning and thorough look at White womanhood that should be required reading for anyone who claims to be an intersectional feminist. Hamad’s controlled urgency makes the book an illuminating and poignant read. Hamad is a purveyor of such bold thinking, the only question is, are we ready to listen?" —Rosa Boshier, The Washington Post

A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between various forms of oppression.
examines the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the historic devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism within the recent women's movement, and black women's involvement with feminism.

AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024

'Thought-provoking' THE ECONOMIST

'Compelling' FINANCIAL TIMES

'Entertaining' DAILY TELEGRAPH

'Gripping . . . essential and captivating' BRADLEY HOPE

'A sparkling read full of original observations and captivating insights' KATJA HOYER

'Utterly compelling . . . jaw-dropping' BRIAN KLAAS

Strongmen are rising. Democracies are faltering. How does tyranny end?

Tyrants project invincibility, but all of them fall. This is because they face critical weaknesses that can form a fatal trap. Whether it's their inner circle turning against them or resentment of elites in the military, the masses alienated by cronyism or revolutionaries plotting in exile, tyrants always have more enemies than friends. And when they fall tyrants don't quietly retire - they face exile, prison or death. What happens in the aftermath can change the fate of a nation.

Meeting with coup leaders, dissidents and soldiers, political scientist Marcel Dirsus draws on extraordinary interviews to examine the workings and malfunctions of tyrants. We hear from a revolutionary (codename 'Satan') who risked Stasi capture to undermine an oppressive regime, an unapologetic former leader of a Burundian rebel group which carried out a massacre, and an American-Gambian activist who plotted to liberate his homeland on breaks during his construction job.

But understanding dictators isn't enough. How Tyrants Fall is the gripping, deeply researched blueprint for how to bring them down.

These are the architects of the modern civil rights movement: 4 profiles of revolutionary groups making change beyond protest

A radically different approach to sustaining social justice movements—4 strategies for abolition and liberation from the new architects of the modern civil rights movement

Many of us think, I don’t support the police. But what should take their place? Or: Prisons don’t keep us safe. But what new systems could?

A lot of books about racial justice ask us how we got here, but Reimagining the Revolution is different: award-winning journalist and activist Paula Lehman-Ewing presents an inside-access look at the activists redefining where we go from here. Readers will hear from:

Ivan Kilgore, an incarcerated activist who founded the 501c3 nonprofit United Black Family Scholarship Foundation from behind prison wallsCritical Resistance, one of the oldest grassroots organizations in the nation working to dismantle the prison-industrial complexThe co-founders of Greenwood, a Black-owned financial technology institution designed specifically for Black and Latino people and businesses: Michael Render, aka Killer Mike, Amb. Andrew Young and Ryan GloverIncarcerated activist Heshima Denham on his grassroots efforts to build a society for Black and Brown people independent of the state The Movement for Black Lives, the Alliance for Safety and Justice, BYP 100, and 8toAbolitionIncarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists using art to heal from trauma, connect with other incarcerated people, and amplify abolitionist change
Lehman-Ewing frames each profile within two fundamental truths: The current system—built and sustained by oppression, extraction, and inequity by design—cannot be reformed. And, knowing this, we need abolition; we need creative solutions designed by the people most impacted by the systems they fight to change. Reimagining the Revolution is a call to action for each of us: if we can access the tools we have, we can dream bigger, think outside the box, and follow the paths laid out by change-making activists toward nothing short of revolution.

For readers of Naomi Klein and Nicole Perlroth, a myth-dissolving exposé of how artificial intelligence exploits human labor, and a resounding argument for a more equitable digital future.

Silicon Valley has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of millions laboring under often appalling conditions to make A.I. possible. This book presents an urgent, riveting investigation of the intricate network that maintains this exploitative system, revealing the untold truth of A.I.

Based on hundreds of interviews and thousands of hours of fieldwork over more than a decade, Feeding the Machine describes the lives of the workers deliberately concealed from view, and the power structures that determine their future. It gives voice to the people whom A.I. exploits, from accomplished writers and artists to the armies of data annotators, content moderators and warehouse workers, revealing how their dangerous, low-paid labor is connected to longer histories of gendered, racialized, and colonial exploitation.

A.I. is an extraction machine that feeds off humanity's collective effort and intelligence, churning through ever-larger datasets to power its algorithms. This book is a call to arms that details what we need to do to fight for a more just digital future.

By the New York Times’s Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey to understand the worldwide supply chain—exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that bring products to your doorstep, and the ruthless business logic that has left local communities at the mercy of a complex and fragile network for their basic necessities."A tale that will change how you look at the world." —Mark LeibovichOne of Foreign Policy's "Most Anticipated Books of 2024"How does the wealthiest country on earth run out of protective gear in the middle of a public health catastrophe? How do its parents find themselves unable to locate crucially needed infant formula? How do its largest companies spend billions of dollars making cars that no one can drive for a lack of chips?The last few years have radically highlighted the intricacy and fragility of the global supply chain. Enormous ships were stuck at sea, warehouses overflowed, and delivery trucks stalled. The result was a scarcity of everything from breakfast cereal to medical devices, from frivolous goods to lifesaving necessities. And while the scale of the pandemic shock was unprecedented, it underscored the troubling reality that the system was fundamentally at risk of descending into chaos all along. And it still is. Sabotaged by financial interests, loss of transparency in markets, and worsening working conditions for the people tasked with keeping the gears turning, our global supply chain has become perpetually on the brink of collapse.In How the World Ran Out of Everything, award-winning journalist Peter S. Goodman reveals the fascinating innerworkings of our supply chain and the factors that have led to its constant, dangerous vulnerability. His reporting takes readers deep into the elaborate system, showcasing the triumphs and struggles of the human players who operate it—from factories in Asia and an almond grower in Northern California, to a group of striking railroad workers in Texas, to a truck driver who Goodman accompanies across hundreds of miles of the Great Plains. Through their stories, Goodman weaves a powerful argument for reforming a supply chain to become truly reliable and resilient, demanding a radical redrawing of the bargain between labor and shareholders, and deeper attention paid to how we get the things we need.From one of the most respected economic journalists working today, How the World Ran Out of Everything is a fiercely smart, deeply informative look at how our supply chain operates, and why its reform is crucial—not only to avoid dysfunction in our day to day lives, but to protect the fate of our global fortunes. 

卸下「世界工廠」稱號的中國
湧進中資而迅速壯大的非洲
是脫貧致富的機遇，還是困難未知的風險？
看中國商人如何「製造」新非洲！
《金融時報》讚譽：「年度最棒的商業書！」
《哈佛商業評論》、《外交》雜誌、《石英》雜誌熱烈好評
結合報導文學、個人史、經濟研究的精彩著作
★★《商業周刊》第1639期獨家書摘★★
複製中國製造業成功模式，非洲脫貧致富的關鍵力量！
非洲的工業革命，不再是遙不可及的想法
未來十年全球成長最快的十個國家中，將有八個來自非洲大陸
近年來，中國投資非洲製造業的數量快速增長，已成為非洲最大的外國貿易夥伴、最大的基礎設施融資國，也是海外直接投資成長最快的金源。中國企業家爭先恐後地湧入非洲大陸設廠，這股投資熱潮正重塑這塊土地的面貌。
這個昔日的製造業強國為何選擇非洲？這是否又是另一起外國勢力強奪資源的案例？作者橫跨非洲大陸、訪談近五十位中國企業家，揭示非洲潛在的發展動能遠比我們想像的更為巨大且富含潛力，而中國的投資也改造了非洲的經濟與社會，提供數百萬非洲人生平第一份正式工作，更培養出新世代的非洲創業者。
雖然中國工廠的進駐也帶來無數隱憂：貪污腐敗的官僚主義、種族歧視造成的不平等待遇、走私猖獗⋯⋯，非洲當地政府不夠健全的治理與工業化發展階段必經的痛苦與磨合，皆是非洲邁向工業化之路的阻礙，但在希望與挫敗夾雜之中，非洲蛻變成長的可能性將被淬煉出來。
是落伍的發展模式，還是全面提升社會水準的持久之道？
從十八世紀工業革命初期的英國，到十九世紀的美國，再到二十世紀的日本和其他亞洲國家，從這些國家的崛起可以窺見：製造業足以改造整個經濟結構，提升國家與個人的財富水準，工業化正是中國在三十年內從貧窮落後的國家轉變成世界一大經濟體的關鍵，而非洲藉由成為下一座世界工廠，也可以複製中國的成功典範，從追隨者一躍成為領頭羊。
《下一座世界工廠》第一部帶大家走進非洲的中國工廠，一窺內部的真實狀況。第二部探討這些工廠在經濟、政治、社會面開創的種種可能性。結合實地探訪研究與引人入勝的故事，佐以精闢的商業與經濟理論分析，帶領讀者重新審視非洲於未來全球經濟中的角色定位，以及蘊藏其中的廣大商機。
本書特色
1. 作者在本書的每一章都以生動的個人故事開場，讓原本顯得生硬枯燥的經濟與政治議題，多了許多在地故事與當地人文觀點，相當具有可讀性。
2. 作者的文筆十分流暢，講故事的功力十分高超，每個故事的呈現，不論是中國商人、非洲工人、貧窮學生，或是作者自己的親身經歷，都講得恰到好處，讓我們得以從不同人物的角度，窺見非洲成為「下一座世界工廠」的可能性與所面臨的挑戰。
3. 本書在中國「錢進非洲」的探討中，一反以中國為主的觀點，而是以非洲本位作為出發點，來剖析非洲作為下一個世界工廠對於非洲本身與全球經貿的重要性，在觀點與切入角度上相當令人耳目一新。
專業推薦
朱雲漢／中央研究院院士
李顯峰／臺灣大學經濟系兼任副教授
林奇芬／《Money錢》雜誌顧問、理財作家
林昶聿／Meet.jobs跨境獵才平台創辦人暨CAO
陳阡蕙／非洲臺灣商會聯合總會總會長
張文揚／政治大學外交系副教授
張海德／「海德頻道」作者
蔡中民／政治大學政治系副教授
劉必榮／東吳大學政治系教授
盧韋辰／wowAfrica阿非卡共同創辦人暨執行長
嚴震生／政治大學國際關係研究中心研究員、臺灣非洲研究論壇執行長、臺灣大學政治系兼任教授
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各界好評
「孫轅這本有關中國製造業在非洲崛起的精彩著作，讓我們不再膚淺地把中國投資者視為『新殖民主義者』。她結合了記者的犀利筆觸以及商業分析師的扎實訓練，以詳盡的實地調查為經，豐富的實際資料為緯，勾勒出詳盡的全貌。不過，其中最動人的描述，還是那些可能啟動非洲工業革命的中國和非洲先驅在非洲開疆闢土的故事。」黛博拉・布勞蒂甘（Deborah Brautigam）／約翰霍普金斯大學高級國際研究院國際政經教授及中非研究專案創始主任
「孫轅主張，非洲明確地邁向工業化，即將成為下一個世界工廠，我認同她的觀點。這本研究透徹的好書提供了實用的經驗，也提出中肯的問題。我非常推薦政策制定者、企業家、學者或是對全球經濟的未來感興趣的人閱讀這本書。」阿里科‧丹格特（Aliko Dangote）／丹格特集團（Dangote Group）董事長兼執行長
「這是一本結合報導文學、個人史、經濟研究的精彩著作。孫轅在深入探索中非工業化的複雜性和可能性時，特別擅長描寫中國和非洲工廠主和勞工的故事，以及環繞他們的總體經濟力量。」徐桓（Huan Hsu）／《偷瓷賊》（The Porcelain Thief）作者
「這本書生動地描述中國如何改造非洲的未來，敘事明晰易懂，亦兼顧了分析的嚴謹性。我推薦讀者以這本書作為悲觀主義的解藥。」卡雷斯圖斯‧朱馬（Calestous Juma）／哈佛大學甘迺迪學院國際發展實務教授，《創新及其敵人》（Innovation and Its Enemies）作者
「這本重要著作把個人的故事以及中國和非洲的大規模工業化運動精彩地交織在一起，不僅增進了我們對全貌的瞭解，也揭露那些遍佈在非洲大陸上的工廠營運實況。我們有幸能夠透過孫轅的敏銳觀察與分析，窺探這個迷人的世界。」李一諾（Yinuo Li）／蓋茲基金會北京代表處首席代表
「非洲的工業化和中非關係可說是當今兩大重要的發展趨勢，孫轅為這兩大趨勢提供了令人難忘又充滿挑戰性的敘述。這本書結合了實地的採訪研究、對發展理論的深入理解，以及對非洲景觀的廣博認知。如果你想瞭解非洲面臨的機會和棘手抉擇，這是一本難能可貴的佳作。」喬納森‧沃茲佐爾（Jonathan Woetzel）／麥肯錫公司資深合夥人
「孫轅以通俗易懂的文字，描述中國企業家在非洲的生動故事，以吸引讀者瞭解發展、投資、治理、公共衛生等複雜的議題。這本書引人入勝，書寫流暢，令人耳目一新。」柯偉林（William C. Kirby）／哈佛大學中國研究教授
「孫轅把重點從中非貿易轉向中國對非洲的生產投資，另闢了一片可能產生深遠影響的關鍵前線。這是一本可以激發出更多研究的導航之書。」穆希薩‧基圖伊（Mukhisa Kituyi）／聯合國貿易與發展會議祕書長
「孫轅是卓越又敏銳的觀察家，她對新非洲的見解令人耳目一新，也激勵人心，非常值得一讀及銘記在心。」理查‧李基（Richard Leakey）／全球知名古人類學家與保育家
「很少學者像孫轅那樣瞭解中非複雜關係的微妙細節。她以充滿文采及活力的寫作風格，提出深入的分析和見解，幫讀者瞭解非洲工業化的進程，以及中國在其中扮演的角色。」以撒‧福可（Isaac K. Fokuo Jr.）／中非卓越中心基金會的共同創辦人、博索公司（Botho Limited）創辦人兼負責人、非洲領導網路（African Leadership Network）前執行長

Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century upends the way we discuss―or avoid discussing―the problems and politics of sex.
How should we think about sex? It is a thing we have and also a thing we do; a supposedly private act laden with public meaning; a personal preference shaped by outside forces; a place where pleasure and ethics can pull wildly apart.
How should we talk about sex? Since #MeToo many have fixed on consent as the key framework for achieving sexual justice. Yet consent is a blunt tool. To grasp sex in all its complexity―its deep ambivalences, its relationship to gender, class, race and power―we need to move beyond yes and no, wanted and unwanted.
We do not know the future of sex―but perhaps we could imagine it. Amia Srinivasan’s stunning debut helps us do just that. She traces the meaning of sex in our world, animated by the hope of a different world. She reaches back into an older feminist tradition that was unafraid to think of sex as a political phenomenon. She discusses a range of fraught relationships―between discrimination and preference, pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, students and teachers, pleasure and power, capitalism and liberation.
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century is a provocation and a promise, transforming many of our most urgent political debates and asking what it might mean to be free.

With its first great victory in the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954, the Civil Rights movement gained the powerful momentum it needed to sweep forward into its crucial decade, the 1960s. As voices of protest and change rose above the din of history and false promises, one sounded more urgently, more passionately than the rest. Malcolm X - once called the most dangerous man in America - challenged the world to listen and learn the truth as he experienced it. And his enduring message is as relevant today as when he first delivered it. This is the first hardcover edition of this classic autobiography since it was originally published in 1964. In its searing pages, Malcolm X the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement to veteran writer and journalist Alex Haley. In a unique collaboration, Alex Haley worked with Malcolm X for nearly two years, interviewing, listening to, and understanding the most controversial leader of his time. Raised in Lansing, Michigan, Malcolm Little's road to world fame was as astonishing as it was unpredictable. After drifting from childhood poverty to petty crime, Malcolm found himself in jail. It was there that he came into contact with the teachings of a little-known Black Muslim leader named Elijah Muhammed. The newly renamed Malcolm X devoted himself body and soul to the teachings of Elijah Muhammed and the world of Islam, and became the Nation's foremost spokesman. When his own conscience forced him to break with Elijah Muhammed, Malcolm founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity, to reach African Americans across the country with an inspiring message of pride, power, and self-determination. The Autobiography of Malcolm X defines American culture and the African-American struggle for social and economic equality that has now become a battle for survival.

Ugliness or unsightliness is much more than a quality or property of an individual’s appearance—it has long functioned as a social category that demarcates access to social, cultural, and political spaces and capital. The editors of and authors in this collection harness intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches in order to examine ugliness as a political category that is deployed to uphold established notions of worth and entitlement. On the Politics of Ugliness identifies and challenges the harmful effects that labels and feelings of ugliness have on individuals and the socio-political order. It explores ugliness in relation to the intersectional processes of racialization, colonization and settler colonialism, gender-making, ableism, heteronormativity, and fatphobia. On the Politics of Ugliness asks that we fight against visual injustice and imagine new ways of seeing.

In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for a deeper understanding of how mourning and violence might instead inspire solidarity and a quest for global justice.

In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm—as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After all, the ogre never gets the princess. And since fairy tales are the foundational myths of our culture, how can a girl with a disability ever think she'll have a happy ending?
By examining the ways that fairy tales have shaped our expectations of disability, Disfigured will point the way toward a new world where disability is no longer a punishment or impediment but operates, instead, as a way of centering a protagonist and helping them to cement their own place in a story, and from there, the world. Through the book, Leduc ruminates on the connections we make between fairy tale archetypes—the beautiful princess, the glass slipper, the maiden with long hair lost in the tower—and tries to make sense of them through a twenty-first-century disablist lens. From examinations of disability in tales from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen through to modern interpretations ranging from Disney to Angela Carter, and the fight for disabled representation in today's media, Leduc connects the fight for disability justice to the growth of modern, magical stories, and argues for increased awareness and acceptance of that which is other—helping us to see and celebrate the magic inherent in different bodies.