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  • When Ivory Towers Were Black

    A Story about Race in America's Cities and Universities

    by Sharon Egretta Sutton ...
    This personal history chronicles the triumph and loss of a 1960s initiative to recruit minority students to Columbia University's School of Architecture.At the intersection of US educational, architectural, and urban history, When Ivory Towers Were Black tells the story of how an unparalleled cohort of ethnic minority students overcame institutional roadblocks to earn degrees in architecture from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pedagogy of a Beloved Commons

    Pursuing Democracy’s Promise through Place-Based Activism

    by Sharon Egretta Sutton ...
    Series series Polis: Fordham Series in Urban Studies
    WINNER, 2026 EDRA's GREAT PLACES AWARDSA rare and powerful illustration of what it takes to become a sustainable, community-embedded organization that continually grows the next generation of compassionate leaders.This essential, timely book meets us at our current moment of crisis to offer hope that American democracy’s stalled trajectory toward its founding creed to embrace all, and not just ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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  • Radical Care

    Leading for Justice in Urban Schools

    by Rosa L. Rivera-McCutchen ...
    Educators often invoke the term care to describe why they entered the field and what compels them to continue. This book argues that care, as typically described and enacted, is not sufficient for leading schools, particularly those serving Black and Brown children. Instead, school leaders need to embrace radical care. Drawing from 20 years of researching and working in New York City public ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • How Organizations Develop Activists

    Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century

    by Hahrie Han ...
    Why are some civic associations better than others at getting--and keeping--people involved in activism? From MoveOn.org to the National Rifle Association, Health Care for America Now to the Sierra Club, membership-based civic associations constantly seek to engage people in civic and political action. What makes some more effective than others? Using in-person observations, surveys, and field ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Myth of the Age of Entitlement

    Millennials, Austerity, and Hope

    by James Cairns ...
    We are said to be living in the age of entitlement. Scholars and pundits declare that millennials expect special treatment, do whatever they feel like, and think they deserve to have things handed to them. In The Myth of the Age of Entitlement, Cairns peels back the layers of the entitlement myth, exposing its faults and arguing that the majority of millennials are actually disentitled, facing ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Fourth Way

    The Inspiring Future for Educational Change

    Edited by Professor Andrew (Andy) P. Hargreaves, Dennis L. Shirley ...
    This book analyzes three previous major change efforts, outlines their strengths and limitations, and offers a successful and sustainable fourth way to integrate teacher professionalism, community engagement, government policy, and accountability. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Rich, Free, and Miserable

    The Failure of Success in America

    by John Brueggemann ...
    Compared to much of the rest of the world, America and its citizens are rich. But many people are also deeply miserable-at work, at home, or both. In this provocative book, author John Brueggemann unpacks why so many people are struggling, both emotionally and financially, in a nation that looks so prosperous on the surface.From a hospital patient reduced to a balance sheet to a parent working ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Missing Class

    Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures

    by Betsy Leondar-Wright ...
    Many activists worry about the same few problems in their groups: low turnout, inactive members, conflicting views on racism, overtalking, and offensive violations of group norms. But in searching for solutions to these predictable and intractable troubles, progressive social movement groups overlook class culture differences. Missing Class looks through a class lens and discovers that members ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • White Fragility

    Why Understanding Racism Can Be So Hard for White People (Adapted for Young Adults)

    by Dr. Robin DiAngelo, Toni Graves Williamson, Ali Michael ...
    A reimagining of thebest-selling book that gives young adults the tools to ask questions, engage in dialogue, challenge their ways of thinking, and take action to create a more racially just world.“I was taught to treat everyone the same.” “I don’t see color.” “My parents voted for Obama.” When white people have the opportunity to think and talk about race and racism, they more often than not don ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Succeeding From The Margins Of Canadian Society: A Strategic Resource For New Immigrants, Refugees And International Students

    by Francis Adu-Febiri,Everett Ofori ...
    It is possible to overcome barriers to minority success in Canada. The stance of this book is that new immigrants, refugees and international students do not have to settle for underachievement despite the cultural and structural disadvantages they face in Canada. The fact is, the unequal social structure of Canada has some cracks, and many minorities have used strategic resources to open up these ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Sharing Cities

    A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities

    by Duncan McLaren, Julian Agyeman ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    How cities can build on the “sharing economy” and smart technology to deliver a “sharing paradigm” that supports justice, solidarity, and sustainability.The future of humanity is urban, and the nature of urban space enables, and necessitates, sharing—of resources, goods and services, experiences. Yet traditional forms of sharing have been undermined in modern cities by social fragmentation and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Architecture & Design versus Consumerism

    How Design Activism Confronts Growth

    by Ann Thorpe ...
    The mentality that consumerism and economic growth are cure-alls is one of the biggest obstacles to real sustainability, but any change seems impossible, unthinkable. Our contemporary paradox finds us relying for our well being on consumer-driven economic growth that we actually can’t afford — not in environmental, economic or social terms. Although architecture and design have long been seen as ... Read more

    $65.99 USD