Privilege, Power, & Poverty: Moving from Division to InclusionLike this list

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• Caste

  the Origins of Our Discontents

  Wilkerson, Isabel,

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  Beautifully written, original, and revealing, this is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of American life today.

• Poverty for Profit

  How Corporations Get Rich off America's Poor

  Kim, Anne

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  A veteran journalist investigates the multiple industries that profit from almost every aspect of the lives of the poor: health care, housing, criminal justice and nutrition, adding a crucial dimension to our understanding of how structural…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How the Other Half Eats

  The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America

  Fielding-Singh, Priya

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  Drawing on years of interviews and observation, a sociologist explores dietary differences along class lines, arguing that lack of access to healthy food is far from the primary driver of nutritional inequality in America.

• Poverty, by America

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  Desmond, Matthew,

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  Link to Book Club Kit. Drawing on history, research and original reporting, Desmond argues that there is so much poverty in America not in spite of our wealth but because of it, and builds a startingly original case for eliminating poverty in our…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Business Solution to Poverty

  Designing Products and Services for Three Billion New Customers

  Polak, Paul • Warwick, Mal

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  The authors believe that people living in poverty are not just the world’s greatest challenge—they represent an extraordinary market opportunity.

• The Undocumented Americans

  Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla,

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  An Ivy League-educated DACA beneficiary reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans.

• The Color of Law

  A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

  Rothstein, Richard

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  Argues that laws and policies created by local, state, and federal government deliberately promoted segregation in metropolitan areas during the 20th century, creating long-lasting consequences

• The Two-Parent Privilege

  How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind

  Kearney, Melissa S.

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  The new economics of love and marriage-and who benefits.

• You Should Smile More

  How to Dismantle Gender Bias in the Workplace

  Hudson, Dawn (Public speaker),

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  This book offers a completely new lens through which to talk about and tackle the stubborn remnants of gender bias at work.

• 2022: Reckoning With Power and Privilege

  Carlson, Bronwyn • Miller, Adrian • Flowers, Prudence • White, Hugh

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  The Conversation‘s experts bring their incisive analysis to the powerful issues that dominated the 2022 landscape.

• White Fragility

  Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

  DiAngelo, Robin J.,

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  Explores the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.

• The Sum of Us

  What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

  McGhee, Heather C.,

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  McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public.

• Learned Behavior: Sense of Entitlement or Earned Privilege?

  Oscar J. Starr III

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  In the realm of human behavior and societal dynamics, there exists a delicate balance between earned privilege and entitlement.

• Wealth, Poverty and Politics

  An International Perspective

  Sowell, Thomas, 1930-

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  One of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in the U.S. argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America.

• What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

  Gordon, Aubrey

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  An explosive indictment on the systemic and cultural issues facing plus-sized people that will move us toward creating an agenda for fat justice.

• Tightrope

  Americans Reaching for Hope

  Kristof, Nicholas D., 1959-

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  The authors draw on the true experiences of working-class Americans to outline possible solutions to governmental failures behind rising unemployment, poverty and opioid addiction.

• Disability Visibility

  First-person Stories From the Twenty-first Century

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  Collects 17 thought-provoking essays written by disabled people that offer keen insight into the complex and rich disability experience.

• The Deviant's War

  The Homosexual vs. the United States of America

  Cervini, Eric

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  A superb epic of Frank Kamey and the fight for gay equality in the United States.

• This Chair Rocks

  A Manifesto Against Ageism

  Applewhite, Ashton

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  Exposes ageism in modern society and suggests ways to combat antiaging attitudes and rhetoric.

• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

  Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938-

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  The history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples.