Mobilizing Hope, Fighting for Change offers an unusual development in social movement studies and food politics more generally: the formation of an interracial alliance of farmers and farm workers who together demand transformative changes to U.S. agriculture by calling for food sovereignty. This alliance is unusual given the parties have historically been deeply divided by race and occupation.

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Without Warning, Udall, Kansas experienced a vicious tornado. Nobody knew that it was coming. In three minutes, the tornado destroyed most of the buildings, including the new high school. By the time the tornado moved on, it had killed 82 people and injured 270 others. The book highlights the stories of surviving victims as they deal with the tragedy and disaster.

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They Came but Could Not Conquer tells the story of twelve isolated villages that experienced environmental crisis when they were threatened by a governmental monolith or big business. In each story, Native peoples rallied together to protect their land, waters, resources, and a way of life against the bulldozer of unwanted, often dangerous alterations labeled as progress.

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Our People Believe in Education tells the story about how two forces, Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and Miami University, who have almost nothing in common came together to support Indigenous language and cultural revitalization.

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Dodge County, Inc is the story of a farm that witnessed the now widely known devastation wrought by industrial hog operations—inhumane treatment of animals and people, pollution, the threat of cancer clusters, and more. Eventually, they’d had enough and realized they needed to put a stop to these big corporations.

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Coming to a Neighborhood near You follows Jim Reese as he worked with men and women in prisons to develop, edit, and produce stories from “system-impacted” students. The stories present true accounts of mass incarceration and an interrogation of how to confront the human rights crisis in America’s criminal justice system.

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Pleasure, Play, and Politics is the first book to examine the roles humor played in U.S. feminism during the late twentieth century. Based on extensive archival research, it brings to light the stunning, moving, and frankly hilarious ways feminists have used satire, irony, and spectacle as they worked to build a better world.

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Black Gun, Silver Star sifts through fact and legend to discover the truth about one of the most outstanding peace officers in late nineteenth-century America, Deputy Marshall U.S. Bass Reeves. Fluent in Creek and other regional Native languages, physically powerful, skilled with firearms, and a master of disguise, Reeves was exceptionally adept at apprehending fugitives and outlaws and his exploits were legendary in Oklahoma and Arkansas.

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When We Only Have the Earth urges us to look for the truth and beauty hidden in our daily lives and join together to fight and save our planet from man-made destruction.

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