Fearless Books for a Perilous Year: The New Press 2020 Gift Guide
As 2020 draws to a close many of us are weary and frightened, but hopeful. While we’ve suffered under the pandemic and the police, we’ve also come together to build networks of aid, care, and solidarity. Record numbers of people took to the streets to protest the murders of Black people, braving arrest, beatings, sound cannons, and tear gas; 2020 opened a conversation about racism, equality, and justice that is now too loud to be ignored.
Whatever the uncertain coming months may bring, one thing is clear: Americans cannot complacently return to “normal.” As we prepare to settle into the winter and celebrate the holiday season however we are able, it is a perfect time to learn the lessons of history—how we got where we are today, how we understand this moment in history, how we fight, and how we win a better future for all of us. The New Press is pleased to present this collection of indispensable titles, to give yourself, your family, your friends, your comrades, your colleagues, your neighbors—anyone and everyone.
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FOR THE CRIMINAL (IN)JUSTICE ACTIVIST
FOR THE BUDDING SOCIAL JUSTICE LAWYER
FOR THE FICTION LOVER
There can be no transformation of our world without imagination, and imagination is the bedrock of literature. In these spellbinding, poignant, often heartbreaking books, authors from around the world explore the struggles of ordinary people to survive and flourish in desperate historical moments.
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FOR THE ANTIRACIST EDUCATOR
Education is where capitalism, racism, and policing intersect, resulting in what we know as the “school to prison pipeline.” These groundbreaking books investigate how privatization and reliance on testing have eroded our free public school system and reduced students to commodities; how racism encourages schools to view its young Black and Brown charges as inherently criminal, adult, and violent; and how policing has replaced care and guidance in schools. Each of these authors chart how education can be transformed to center, nurture, and guide students.
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FOR THE WORKPLACE ORGANIZER
COVID-19 has thrown the fragile state of American labor into sharp relief, as the Trump administration scrambles to further dismantle protections for workers. Proposition 22 has passed in California, with nationwide ramifications for workers under the ever-expanding “gig economy.” Now more than ever, it is essential that workers recognize their power and understand what they can accomplish when they organize. These essential volumes examine the history of the war against labor in the United States—and how workers have fought back.
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FOR RADICALS AND LEFTISTS OF ALL STRIPES
What does it mean to resist? What tools do ordinary people have to counteract injustice, when the system is so much bigger and more powerful than we are? What is the potential and what are the limits of the strategies we’ve historically deployed? And what can we learn from successful—and unsuccessful—resistance movements across the world? These provocative texts explore these questions and more, helping light the way in turbulent times.
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FOR THE FEMINIST AND LGBTQ SCHOLAR
The traditional construction of gender is one of the pillars of a capitalist society, for the creation of new generations of compliant labor. For decades, feminists and LGBTQ people have challenged those constructions, and faced violence to do so. These titles explore those struggles, and how through them we can learn to get free.
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