This book examines the rapid growth of Islam in America. Daughter of Another Path reveals some of the reason and thought process that led these daughters into a new journey in their spiritual life,

I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.

When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.

On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive.

Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

I Am Malala is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons.

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.<br /><br />In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. Essential, and still eye-opening, Orientalism remains one of the most important books written about our divided world.

From the Iranian hostage crisis through the Gulf War and the bombing of the World Trade Center, the American news media have portrayed "Islam" as a monolithic entity, synonymous with terrorism and religious hysteria. In this classic work, now updated, the author of Culture and Imperialism reveals the hidden agendas and distortions of fact that underlie even the most "objective" coverage of the Islamic world.

Are Islamic societies inherently oppressive to women? Is the trend among Islamic women to appear once again in veils and other traditional clothing a symbol of regression or an effort to return to a “pure” Islam that was just and fair to both sexes? In this book Leila Ahmed adds a new perspective to the current debate about women and Islam by exploring its historical roots, tracing the developments in Islamic discourses on women and gender from the ancient world to the present.

In order to distinguish what was distinctive about the earliest Islamic doctrine on women, Ahmed first describes the gender systems in place in the Middle East before the rise of Islam. She then focuses on those Arab societies that played a key role in elaborating the dominant Islamic discourses about women and gender: Arabia during the period in which Islam was founded; Iraq during the classical age, when the prescriptive core of legal and religious discourse on women was formulated; and Egypt during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when exposure to Western societies led to dramatic social change and to the emergence of new discourses on women. Throughout, Ahmed not only considers the Islamic texts in which central ideologies about women and gender developed or were debated but also places this discourse in its social and historical context. Her book is thus a fascinating survey of Islamic debates and ideologies about women and the historical circumstances of their position in society, the first such discussion using the analytic tools of contemporary gender studies.

A passionate manifesto decrying misogyny in the Arab world, by an Egyptian American journalist and activist. When the Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy published an article in Foreign Policy magazine in 2012 titled Why Do They Hate Us it provoked a firestorm of controversy. The response it generated, with more than four thousand posts on the website, broke all records for the magazine, prompted dozens of follow-up interviews on radio and television, and made it clear that misogyny in the Arab world is an explosive issue, one that engages and often enrages the public.

In Headscarves and Hymens, Eltahawy takes her argument further. Drawing on her years as a campaigner and commentator on women's issues in the Middle East, she explains that since the Arab Spring began, women in the Arab world have had two revolutions to undertake one fought with men against oppressive regimes, and another fought against an entire political and economic system that treats women in countries from Yemen and Saudi Arabia to Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya as second-class citizens. Eltahawy has traveled across the Middle East and North Africa, meeting with women and listening to their stories.

Her book is a plea for outrage and action on their behalf, confronting the toxic mix of culture and religion that few seem willing or able to disentangle lest they blaspheme or offend. A manifesto motivated by hope and fury in equal measure, Headscarves and Hymens is as illuminating as it is incendiary.

Synopsis
Following his profoundly influential study, "Orientalism", Edward Said now examines western culture. From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to media coverage of the Gulf War, "Culture and Imperialism" is a broad, fierce and wonderfully readable account of the roots of imperialism in European culture.

One thing we know for certain is that sex is personal: perhaps the most intimate thing of all. But sex is also shaped by a complicated web of cultural, social and political forces outside of ourselves. Fear-mongering, moral panic and outdated attitudes prevail, but if #MeToo has taught us anything, it's how dangerous it is to keep conversations about sex hidden from view. Behind Closed Doors invests in a radical, inclusive and honest sex education, taking us beyond learning about the 'birds and the bees', to identifying inequality that stands in the way of sexual freedom. From contraceptives to virginity, consent to pornography, transphobia to sexual abuse, the book shows how our desires are influenced by powerful political processes that can be transformed.

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon's masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today from one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history.

In 1978 Lila Abu-Lughod climbed out of a dusty van to meet members of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community. Living in this Egyptian Bedouin settlement for extended periods during the following decade, Abu-Lughod took part in family life, with its moments of humor, affection, and anger. She witnessed striking changes, both cultural and economic, and she recorded the stories of the women. Writing Women's Worlds is Abu-Lughod's telling of those stories; it is also about what happens in bringing the stories to others.

As the new teller of these tales Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography. She explores how the telling of these stories challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women. Writing Women's Worlds is thus at once a vivid set of stories and a study in the politics of representation.

Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rights groups and the media: Muslim women need to be rescued. Lila Abu-Lughod boldly challenges this conclusion. An anthropologist who has been writing about Arab women for thirty years, she delves into the predicaments of Muslim women today, questioning whether generalizations about Islamic culture can explain the hardships these women face and asking what motivates particular individuals and institutions to promote their rights.
In recent years Abu-Lughod has struggled to reconcile the popular image of women victimized by Islam with the complex women she has known through her research in various communities in the Muslim world. Here, she renders that divide vivid by presenting detailed vignettes of the lives of ordinary Muslim women, and showing that the problem of gender inequality cannot be laid at the feet of religion alone. Poverty and authoritarianism--conditions not unique to the Islamic world, and produced out of global interconnections that implicate the West--are often more decisive. The standard Western vocabulary of oppression, choice, and freedom is too blunt to describe these women's lives.
Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam--as well as a moving portrait of women's actual experiences, and of the contingencies with which they live.

Kübra Gümüşay beschreibt wie Sprache unser Denken prägt und unsere Politik bestimmt.

„Ein beeindruckendes Buch, poetisch und politisch zugleich.“ Margarete Stokowski

Dieses Buch folgt einer Sehnsucht: nach einer Sprache, die Menschen nicht auf Kategorien reduziert. Nach einem Sprechen, das sie in ihrem Facettenreichtum existieren lässt. Nach wirklich gemeinschaftlichem Denken in einer sich polarisierenden Welt. Kübra Gümüşay setzt sich seit langem für Gleichberechtigung und Diskurse auf Augenhöhe ein. In ihrem ersten Buch geht sie der Frage nach, wie Sprache unser Denken prägt und unsere Politik bestimmt. Sie zeigt, wie Menschen als Individuen unsichtbar werden, wenn sie immer als Teil einer Gruppe gesehen werden – und sich nur als solche äußern dürfen. Doch wie können Menschen wirklich als Menschen sprechen? Und wie können wir alle – in einer Zeit der immer härteren, hasserfüllten Diskurse – anders miteinander kommunizieren?

Kübra Gümüşay beschreibt wie Sprache unser Denken prägt und unsere Politik bestimmt.

„Ein beeindruckendes Buch, poetisch und politisch zugleich.“ Margarete Stokowski

Dieses Buch folgt einer Sehnsucht: nach einer Sprache, die Menschen nicht auf Kategorien reduziert. Nach einem Sprechen, das sie in ihrem Facettenreichtum existieren lässt. Nach wirklich gemeinschaftlichem Denken in einer sich polarisierenden Welt. Kübra Gümüşay setzt sich seit langem für Gleichberechtigung und Diskurse auf Augenhöhe ein. In ihrem ersten Buch geht sie der Frage nach, wie Sprache unser Denken prägt und unsere Politik bestimmt. Sie zeigt, wie Menschen als Individuen unsichtbar werden, wenn sie immer als Teil einer Gruppe gesehen werden – und sich nur als solche äußern dürfen. Doch wie können Menschen wirklich als Menschen sprechen? Und wie können wir alle – in einer Zeit der immer härteren, hasserfüllten Diskurse – anders miteinander kommunizieren?

Wie junge Musliminnen in Österreich und Deutschland ihre Umwelt erleben

Zahlreiche Bücher werden über muslimische Frauen verfasst, wenige von ihnen. Hier schreiben nun Musliminnen aus Österreich und Deutschland über verschiedene Themen, die sie beschäftigen: über Heimat und Karriere, über Alltagsrassismus und Diskriminierungserfahrungen bis hin zu Vielfalt und Integration. Die Sammlung von gesellschaftskritischen Analysen und persönlichen Geschichten gewährt einen Einblick in die Lebenswelten engagierter Musliminnen und gibt auch die kritischen weiblichen Töne der muslimischen Community wieder, die nicht so oft gehört werden. So macht dieses Buch die Vielfalt der muslimischen Frauen sichtbar, die wiederum ein Stück weit zum Dialog und zur Versachlichung beitragen in einem emotionsgeladenen Diskurs um das Thema Islam.

Nana Asma'u was a devout, learned Muslim who was able to observe, record, interpret, and influence the major public events that happened around her. Daughters are still named after her, her poems still move people profoundly, and the memory of her remains a vital source of inspiration and hope. Her example as an educator is still the system she set up in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, for the education of rural women, has not only survived in its homeland—through the traumas of the colonization of West Africa and the establishment of the modern state of Nigeria—but is also being revived and adapted elsewhere, notably among Muslim women in the United States. This book, richly illustrated with maps and photographs, recounts Asma'u's upbringing and critical junctures in her life from several sources, mostly her own firsthand experiences presented in her writings, the accounts of contemporaries who witnessed her endeavors, and the memoirs of European travelers. For the account of her legacy the authors have depended on extensive field studies in Nigeria, and documents pertaining to the efforts of women in Nigeria and the United States, to develop a collective voice and establish their rights as women and Muslims in today's societies. Beverley Mack is an associate professor of African studies at the University of Kansas. She is co-editor (with Catherine Coles) of Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century and co-author (with Jean Boyd) of The Collected Works of Nana Asma'u, 1793–1864 and One Woman's Nana Asma'u Scholar and Scribe . Jean Boyd is former principal research fellow of the Sokoto History Bureau and research associate of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She is the author

「看見有人準備下山了，都以為他半途而廢，
其實是我們本來就從不同的地方出發，走在不同的山徑上。」
廢鬱詩人李豪，直面人生的剖心之作
厭世，有礙健康？抑或是放棄掙扎的自嘲解藥？
在眾人眼中，
他寫詩，他攝影，他穿品味，
他為失戀者抄寫，成為孤獨者的停泊。
但其實他的生命也有黑暗，更曾困惑，
那些難以通透的挫敗，甚至是攸關生存的危機，
告別青春之後，這一次，他寫下你我都曾掩藏的成長痛，
疼痛讓人厭世，但或許，這也是求生方式的一種……
●曾經想成為最出眾的人，一場青春求生記
過去的李豪，善於描寫不安、蒼白的年輕群像，以流行的記號與暗語陪伴無數受傷心靈。在網路社群傳抄的熱潮下，成為新一代愛情觀的詮釋者。
後來我們才明白，書寫背後往往源於成長期的敏感與徬徨。這一次，李豪寫的不再是她與他的情詩，在螢幕比夜還要黑暗的晚上，他直面人生，回頭檢視最初的方向，透過叩問與反思，回應年少的個人期許：成為更好的自己。
●寫給厭世者的求生指南，從「成長痛」出發
書中觸碰少年結群、離家獨立、追夢、失眠、標籤化、習得性無助等成長痛史，是自己，亦是時代青年的共感話題。
李豪再次拓展書寫體裁，以長篇散文的形式緩緩訴說邊緣、夢碎等生命經歷。在他的筆下，厭世，不過是一種求生的方式。以文字撐出寬闊空間，走過幽谷的人想的是──讓遍體鱗傷、無處安放的靈魂，能夠暫時靠攏於此地；我們也得以看見，那暗夜裡的星星。
「有人說睡眠就像是一場小死亡，
那麼睡不著的你說不定是本能渴望要好好活下去。
如何對抗這漫長的空白，為自己的人生創造說法，
即是我們接下來要做的事情。」──李豪
引路推薦
小鬱亂入Depressy Trouble團隊
林育聖｜「文案的美」負責人
威廉｜「精神科觀察日記」網站經營者
凌性傑｜作家
徐珮芬│詩人
陳頤華｜《秋刀魚》雜誌總編輯
溫如生｜作家
蘇益賢｜臨床心理師
痛苦的時候，最是需要思想的洗刷……感謝李豪在這本書裡的分享，那是在亂世感襲來之際，最能觸動內心的人生幸福論。──凌性傑（作家）
我們能否看清楚「厭世背後」的訊息，而不困在「厭世狀態」本身……願我們都能在這張力之中，看到更多可能性。──蘇益賢（臨床心理師）

正因為不被許可，
一切充滿誘惑。
◇世上最美情詩譯成的小說
◇二十世紀全球最佳百大同志小說評選榜首
◇諾貝爾文學獎得主，托瑪斯．曼最著名的中篇小說
◇改編電影榮獲坎城影展25週年紀念大獎
瘟疫不曾真正消失，就像那些致命的愛。
「天、地、海仍舊浸浴在幽靈般透明的蒼白晨光中，一顆逐漸消逝的星星還浮游在空茫裡。但是一陣風起，從凡人無法接近之處傳來一個輕快的訊息，說黎明女神已從丈夫身旁起身，遙遠的天海之際露出第一道甜蜜的紅暈，萬物就此甦醒──」
剛獲封為貴族的偉大作家阿申巴赫，在一次散步途中，突如其來地興起了旅行的渴望，於是他動身前往威尼斯，遙遙的水鄉澤國。只是他沒預料撞進他生活的，遠比異鄉情還要來得凶險、致命、震懾人心。當不安與傳言正壟罩著威尼斯，一名美如從希臘雕像般走出的少年在沙灘上奔馳，蜂蜜色的金髮，膝窩閃閃發光，泛青的血管讓他的身體宛如半透明的材質構成……他決定留下。還有什麼比接近美更能成為永恆的事呢？

❖第163屆直木賞得獎作品❖
銷售突破260,000冊，日本2020年讓人最想珍惜的話題小說！
每當遭受命運捉弄時，
最大的絕境，
是放棄相信有人會無條件愛你……
★長踞日本亞馬遜暢銷書即時榜，千名讀者4.4顆星高分評價。
★登上紀伊國屋、東販、e-hon、丸善&淳久堂各大書店「2020年度百大暢銷書」榜。
★日本長青作家馳星周，獻給這個時代最溫柔的傑作。
在無盡的黑夜裡，
那些受傷、孤獨與迷茫的人依偎的──是一隻狗。
2011年秋天，距離那場導致家破人亡的大地震已過去半年。
住在仙台的和正因為震災而失去工作，母親的痴呆症也日益嚴重，
為了維持一家人的生計，他不得已開始從事犯罪工作。
有一天，和正在超商前撿到一隻瘦弱的流浪狗──多聞。
多聞既聰明又善解人意，和正很快就決定領養牠。
當和正在夜裡竊盜時，總會帶著多聞，
只要有多聞在，事情都神奇地進行得非常順利，
牠就像是守護神一般，冥冥之中帶來好運。
偏偏，人生中的好運與厄運總相伴而來。
多聞之所以與處在艱困時期的和正相遇，似乎不只是偶然。
眼神時常凝視南方的牠，彷彿在追求著什麼……
多聞不斷與不同的人相逢，見識了各種人生中的哀愁與苦痛，
牠為什麼會出現在這些人身邊？最終又要去到哪裡呢？
❋ ❋ ❋
日本暗黑小說大師馳星周，擅長描繪社會底層的灰暗暴力面貌，
以出道作《不夜城》打響文壇知名度後，7度入圍直木賞，
到澈底的轉型之作《少年與狗》，以充滿真摯情感的人狗故事，獲得直木賞殊榮。
在這個故事中，馳星周寫出社會上不同身分各自面臨的困難景況，
每個人的生活都充滿無法迴避的現實，
每個表面上的錯誤選擇可能都始於無可奈何。
六個人物，故事情節一次次翻轉，命運帶給他們難以預料的事與願違，
而從頭到尾沒有一句台詞的多聞，卻具有一股神奇力量，
僅是透過純粹眼神，便得以接住破碎的人心。
原來真正的治癒，發生在感受到被愛著的時刻。
名人推薦
Kaoru│「哈日劇」FB粉絲團版主
張西│作家
張維中│旅日作家
喬齊安│百萬部落客、專業書評家
視網膜│「眼球中央電視台」主播
溫如生│作家
蔣亞妮│作家
龍貓大王通信
蘇乙笙│作家
蘇益賢│臨床心理師
──動容推薦
「因311大地震成為流浪犬的狗狗，為了心中堅持的信念，展開了一趟未知的漫長旅程。沿途上與許多不同境遇的人類相遇，與他們一同譜出一段段雖然短暫、卻又刻骨銘心的相處時光。有如天使般守護著每一位與牠相遇的人們，讀完不禁讓人感動到潸然淚下……」──Kaoru（「哈日劇」FB粉絲團版主）
「多聞為何不惜跋涉千里也要向南方前進？牠清澈的雙眼映照出311震災後的眾生相，療癒了無數受創的靈魂。《少年與狗》是馳星周寫給毛小孩最溫柔的情書，更是撼動你我心靈的日本版《野性的呼喚》。」──喬齊安（百萬部落客、專業書評家）
「這是一隻狗與一群人的故事，也是一次『人類為什麼愛狗？』的作答。答案很簡單，因為狗也如此愛著人類。世界之大，滿是人類無法企及的愛，治癒的愛、陪伴的愛、拯救的愛、單純的愛。種種不可能之愛，狗狗都給予。」──蔣亞妮（作家）
「當你深愛一個人，哪怕只能留住瞬間的美好，也願意為他傾注一切。」──楊明綺（本書譯者）
讀者★★★★★好評
．這是我讀過的許多小說中最喜歡的一本！原因不只是覺得狗狗很可愛或很可憐，而是我喜歡本書描寫人們在悲傷的生活中感受到狗帶來的溫暖這部分。在這樣的一個年代，很感謝有這本小說溫暖我的心。
．從頭到尾沒有多餘的一句話。本書強調了生活中充滿無法迴避的現實，且這樣的現實還在持續發生，但是我們仍然必須生活下去。
．文字雖簡潔，每個場景都表現出滿滿的感情，讓人一口氣讀到了最後。
．遇到了很棒的書！多聞為了達到目的地，在旅途中貼近孤獨的人們。在電車裡讀著讀著就流淚了……
．好有愛的小說啊。明明一次也沒有把多聞的心情擬人化寫出來，卻能傳遞出多聞之心的溫柔故事。
．多聞為了某個目的，花了五年漫長的歲月持續旅行。途中也曾被各種人飼養，經歷了各式各樣的事件，到了最後一章終於明白多聞之旅的目的時，我深深地被多聞的溫柔、睿智和堅強所打動了。

引自新加坡联合早报
新加坡报业控股2010年1月13日宣布出版一部由新闻工作者对内阁资政李光耀的专访新著。
本书名为“Lee Kuan Yew：Hard Truths to keep Singapore going”（《李光耀：新加坡赖以生存的硬道理》），是由李资政讲述他对新加坡发展的观感和国家所面对的挑战。
英文报《海峡时报》的新闻工作者以超过十个月的时间，对李资政做了多达16次采访。他在访谈中谈到新加坡政治制度未来的发展、新加坡与邻国的关系、移民问题、中国与印度的崛起、气候变化等一系列课题，还提到他的家庭、孩子和孙子。
负责编辑本书的《海峡时报》总编辑韩福光说：“这是一本重要的书，因为这是李资政第一次接受《海峡时报》七名记者总共长达32个小时的深入采访。他特地拨出许多时间接受访谈，因为他想借助本书与国人，特别是年轻新加坡人联系。他们并不确定李资政的观点在今时今日的新加坡是否还合时宜。”
本书的筹备工作早在2008年8月展开，参与采访的新闻工作者参考了李资政过去的大量讲稿与关于他的书籍。负责协调编务小组的副总编辑朱莱达、评论版副主编蔡美芬、政治组副主任林惠敏等人把李资政的治政思维分门别类，然后讨论要向他提出哪些方面的问题。
此外，编务小组也同年轻新加坡人和学者举行小组讨论会，以了解他们想向李资政提出哪些问题。
朱莱达说：“本书讨论近年最热门的课题，如外来人才、包容性增长、宗教意识抬头和气候变化。为了解新加坡人关心哪些课题，编务小组与超过两百名新加坡人交谈，包括许多年轻国人。从他们那里，我们获得了大量的问题，也反映出新加坡社会的矛盾所在。”
他们同李资政的访谈都在总统府进行，每次超过两小时。本书共分成11章，每一章都有引言介绍所讨论的课题，访谈内容则以问答形式发表。
本书选用《李光耀：新加坡赖以生存的硬道理》作为书名，是因李资政在访谈中多次提到新加坡某些方面是不能改变的，因为这些都对保持社会稳定和拥有强大与高效的政府很重要。
美国前总统克林顿对这部书给予好评。他说：“在这一系列新的访谈中，李资政坦率地针对新加坡处在快速变化的世界环境中所扮演的角色，分享了他的智慧并说出他的忧虑。本书反映了李资政所深信的观点，即繁荣和可持续发展必须是建立在过去的经验教训基础上。”
李资政的老朋友、美国前国务卿基辛格说：“这32小时的访谈是空前的直率，课题的多元性也是空前绝后的。”
韩国总统李明博说：“李资政以清晰、坦白和有力的字眼，讲出了他的看法。这肯定会对读者有强大而持久的影响。”
马来西亚前财政部长达因说：“李光耀一直都对新加坡、新加坡人民、新加坡的前途和与邻国的关系充满感情。这样的情感驱使他把新加坡发展成一个活力充沛，又对世界有价值的国家。”

A gripping, twisting account of a small town set on fire by hatred, xenophobia, and ecological disaster—a story that weaves together corporate malfeasance, a battle over shrinking natural resources, a turning point in the modern white supremacist movement, and one woman’s relentless battle for environmental justice.

By the late 1970s, the fishermen of the Texas Gulf Coast were struggling. The bays that had sustained generations of shrimpers and crabbers before them were being poisoned by nearby petrochemical plants, oil spills, pesticides, and concrete. But as their nets came up light, the white shrimpers could only see one culprit: the small but growing number of newly resettled Vietnamese refugees who had recently started fishing.

Turf was claimed. Guns were flashed. Threats were made. After a white crabber was killed by a young Vietnamese refugee in self-defense, the situation became a tinderbox primed to explode, and the Grand Dragon of the Texas Knights of the Ku Klux Klan saw an opportunity to stoke the fishermen’s rage and prejudices. At a massive Klan rally near Galveston Bay one night in 1981, he strode over to an old boat graffitied with the words U.S.S. VIET CONG, torch in hand, and issued a ninety-day deadline for the refugees to leave or else “it’s going to be a helluva lot more violent than Vietnam!” The white fishermen roared as the boat burned, convinced that if they could drive these newcomers from the coast, everything would return to normal.

A shocking campaign of violence ensued, marked by burning crosses, conspiracy theories, death threats, torched boats, and heavily armed Klansmen patrolling Galveston Bay. The Vietnamese were on the brink of fleeing, until a charismatic leader in their community, a highly decorated colonel, convinced them to stand their ground by entrusting their fate with the Constitution.

Drawing upon a trove of never-before-published material, including FBI and ATF records, unprecedented access to case files, and scores of firsthand interviews with Klansmen, shrimpers, law enforcement, environmental activists, lawyers, perpetrators and victims, Johnson uncovers secrets and secures confessions to crimes that went unsolved for more than forty years. This explosive investigation of a forgotten story, years in the making, ultimately leads Johnson to the doorstep of the one woman who could see clearly enough to recognize the true threat to the bays—and who now represents the fishermen’s last hope.