LA Progressive Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
Alissa QuartLA ProgressiveBootstrapped: Held Down by Our Bootstraps • kcandaele • https://t.co/OXsovFJ1vx Kelly Candaele: Author Alissa Quart says the myth of American individualism is a poor excuse for inequality. #bootstrapped #alissaquart https://t.co/mnmE1cDrRv https://t.co/pEobslcvu4
Paperback, 2024
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
American Marxism
Mark R. LevinLA Progressive#RT @jacobin: "American Marxism" is not about history. It's about convincing the American right to engage in a new Red Scare. http://jacobinmag.com/2021/09/mark-levin-red-scare-mccarthyism-authoritarianism-anti-communism-american-marxism-book-review
Hardcover, 2021
$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Settler Colonialism
Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizLA Progressive#RT @DocMellyMel: #Thanksgiving Reads: 1. Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon 2. The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism - Gerald Horne 3. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 4. Settler Colonialism, Race, Class, and… https://t.co/fne928nl46
Paperback, 2022
$13.69Member price:$12.32 + Free shipping10% off
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor DostoevskyLA ProgressiveJan 6th Crime and Punishment Redux • @BlumsLaw • https://t.co/zbo3TeZMvr Bill Blum: The Jan 6th report is similar to a novel. The closest approximation is Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic psychological drama, Crime and Punishment. #january6 #dostoevsky https://t.co/7JaT4n8P6h
Paperback, 2022
$29.97Member price:$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean
Gerald HorneLA Progressive#RT @DocMellyMel: #Thanksgiving Reads: 1. Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon 2. The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism - Gerald Horne 3. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 4. Settler Colonialism, Race, Class, and… https://t.co/fne928nl46
Paperback, 2018
$25.00Member price:$25.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale HurstonLA Progressive#RT @DocMellyMel: “They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.” -Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937
Paperback, 2006
$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Blood in My Eye
George L. JacksonLA Progressive#RT @DocMellyMel: “People who refuse to stop fighting can never be repressed - they either win or they die… We will win!” -George Jackson Blood In My Eye
Paperback, 1996
$22.95Member price:$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Age of Vice: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel)
Deepti KapoorLA ProgressiveThe Global Crime Novel: Worldwide Corruption and Chiseling• https://t.co/zjpvkFIIVn Dennis Broe: Perhaps the star of the conference was India’s Deepti Kapoor whose Age of Vice is now being adapted for series TV by Disney+ and FX. #crimenovels https://t.co/Qyma2A4DKm https://t.co/bEYzRkNcMS
Paperback, 2024
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles Volume 19
Laura PulidoLA Progressive#RT @DocMellyMel: @AfricanaCarr @KING__SHARK @TorraineWalker @SashaReneePerez Good list. Off top… I’d add: 1. Bad Mexicans by one of my favoritist scholars Kelly Lytle Hernandez 2. Laura Pulido’s Black, Brown, Yellow and Left 3. There’s Marquez’ Black Brown Solidarity
Paperback, 2006
$34.95Member price:$34.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor DostoyevskyLA ProgressiveJan 6th Crime and Punishment Redux • @BlumsLaw • https://t.co/zbo3TeZMvr Bill Blum: The Jan 6th report is similar to a novel. The closest approximation is Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic psychological drama, Crime and Punishment. #january6 #dostoevsky https://t.co/7JaT4n8P6h
Paperback, 1993
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book