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King: A Life

By Jonathan Eig. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. 688 pages. $35/hardcover; $16.99/eBook. This magnificent new biography of Martin Luther King…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

A More Just Future: Psychological Tools for Reckoning with Our Past and Driving Social Change

By Dolly Chugh. Atria Books, 2022. 224 pages. $28.99/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. When I first experienced a call to educate White people…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

Inside Out: The Equity Leader’s Guide to Undoing Institutional Racism

By Caprice D. Hollins. New Society Publishers, 2022. 256 pages. $24.99/paperback or eBook. If you are interested in teaching people…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning

By Resmaa Menakem. Central Recovery Press, 2022. 384 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $18.95/paperback or eBook. This unusual book is difficult to describe.…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

I Refuse to Kill: My Path to Nonviolent Action in the 1960s

By Francesco Da Vinci. Sunbury Press, 2021. 294 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. I Refuse to Kill is an engaging memoir about…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm

By Kazu Haga. Parallax Press, 2020. 296 pages. $17.95/paperback; $12.99/eBook. In our society, violence—physical or mental—is often considered the appropriate…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

By Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law. The New Press, 2020. 320 pages. $26.99/hardcover; $17.99/eBook. Prison by Any Other Name turns…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. AK Press, 2020. 260 pages. $18/paperback; $17.99/eBook. Beyond Survival is a collection…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck

Rejecting the False Reality

A Recommitment to the Peace Testimony.

Patience A. Schenck

Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies: Moral Pollution, Black Lives, and the Struggle for Justice

By Rima Vesely-Flad. Fortress Press, 2017. 226 pages. $34/paperback; $4.99/eBook. A couple of years ago, I visited a man I…

Reviewed by Patience A. Schenck