As the country prepares for its presidential elections that the NYPL’s librarians have broken down the vital issues on very top of the campaigns.
Listed below are a choice of books to think about studying before November 3, which you may find to your regional independent booksellers through Bookshop.org or your very own neighborhood library.
Climate Change
So Long as Grass Grows: The Deadly Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Position Rock from Dina Gilio-Whitaker
A Bad Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault in the Mind from Harriet A. Washington
The Conclusion of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning at the Course of Climate Disruption from Dahr Jamail
The Uninhabitable Planet: Life After Heating from David Wallace-Wells
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate from Naomi Klein
Market
Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor from Steven Greenhouse
Instruction
Cutting Faculty: The Segrenomics of American Instruction from Noliwe Rooks
Pushout: The Criminalization of Dark Women at Schools by Monique W. Morris
Foreign Policy
Winners Take AllThe Elite Charade of Altering the World from Anand Giridharadas
Gender Equality
: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism edited by Daisy Hernández and Bushra Rehman
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger from Rebecca Traister
At a Day’s Function: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Beautiful Employees from Bernice Yeung
Know My Name: A Memoir from Chanel Miller
See Jane Win: The Inspiring Story of the Girls Changing American Politics from Caitlin Moscatello
Health
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera into Ebola and Beyond from Sonia Shah
Immigration
We Too Sing America: South African, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Twist Our Multiracial Future from Deepa Iyer
No Justice in the Shadows: The Way America Criminalizes Immigrants by Alina Das
Sand and BloodAmerica’s Stealth War on the Mexico Border by John Carlos Frey
LGBTQ+ All Rights
Moving Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices from Toby Beauchamp
Actual Queer America: LGBT Stories By Red States from Samantha Allen
Tomorrow Will be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight to Trans Equality from Sarah McBride
Unapologetic: A Dark, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements from Charlene A. Carruthers
Media
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Every Other from Sherry Turkle
From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Choice Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy from Claire Bond Pitter
Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, along with the Hijacking of their American secretary from Andrew Marantz
Politics
Black Cash: The Hidden History of this Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right from Jane Mayer
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them from Jason Stanley
Polarization: Why We Are Polarized from Ezra Klein
The Most Dangerous Branch: Within the Supreme Court at the Time of Trump from David A. Kaplan
Our Time Is Now: Power, Goal, and the Fight for a Fair America from Stacey Abrams
Everything You Need to Know About Politics…However Don’t: A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues that Matter from Jessamyn Conrad
Hurry
Forged in Black: How Race Nevertheless Enslaves the American Spirit by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr..
Latino America: The Way America’s Dynamic Population Is Poised to Change the Politics of the Country by Matt Barreto and Gary M. Segura
The Colour of Law: A Forgotten History of Our Government Segregated America from Richard Rothstein
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration at the Time of Colorblindness from Michelle Alexander
Stamped in the Beginning: The Annals of Racist Suggestions in America from Ibram X. Kendi
Voting Rights
Blackballed: The Dark Vote and U.S. Democracy from Darryl Pinckney
Allow the Folks Today Choose the PresidentThe Case for Abolishing the Electoral College from Jesse Wegman
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy from Carol Anderson
Unrigged: How Americans Are Struggling Back to Save Democracy from David Daley
Vanguard: how Black Girls Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, also also Insisted on Equality for All from Martha S. Jones
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