Social Issues

A social issue is a problem that influences a considerable number of the individuals within a society. It is often the consequence of factors extending beyond an individual's social issue is the source of a conflicting opinion on the grounds of what is perceived as a morally just personal life or societal order.

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New Releases Tagged "Social Issues"

American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate
There's Always Next Year
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
We Don't Talk About Carol
Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Good People
Poverty, by America
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Frank and Red
Consider Yourself Kissed
Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
The Girls We Sent Away
The Last Carolina Girl
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
The Hate U Give
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Between the World and Me
Just Mercy
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
So You Want to Talk About Race
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
How to Be an Antiracist
To Kill a Mockingbird
We Should All Be Feminists
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Poverty, by America
The Handmaid's Tale

Abhijit Naskar
When world cries blood, your blood ought to boil. If you feel nothing at all, you're a stain upon the soil. ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

Dimitri A. Bogazianos
Crack had a social logic to it, a specific kind of reasoning that drew from a vast well of common experience for its symbolic resonance. Crack stood for pain and power, chaos and order, the truth behind the lie. Crack was a sociolegal logic grounded in blood.
Dimitri A. Bogazianos, 5 Grams: Crack Cocaine, Rap Music, and the War on Drugs

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