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"

The New People
The Girls We Sent Away
Poverty, by America
The New People
The Last Carolina Girl
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Perfectly Nice Neighbors
We Are Not Like Them
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
Unreasonable Women: Three Stories of Violence, Imprisonment, and Extraordinary Survival
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
That's What Friends Are For
With Love from Harlem
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay
What Happens in the Dark
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
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
So You Want to Talk About Race
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
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Literature of Social Change
434 books — 313 voters
Can't Get There from Here by Todd StrasserPaper Things by Jennifer Richard JacobsonWhere I Live by Brenda RufenerHold Fast by Blue BalliettRunaway by Wendelin Van Draanen
Homelessness in Children's Fiction
116 books — 41 voters

Broadway General Manager by Peter BogyoThe Corrosion of Character by Richard SennettClass by Paul FussellThe Perils of "Privilege" by Phoebe Maltz BovyCapitalism for Democrats by Martin Lowy
Nonfiction on class
68 books — 53 voters
In the Midst of Plenty by Marybeth ShinnIn the Midst of Plenty by Marybeth ShinnIn the Midst of Plenty by Marybeth ShinnEvery Silver Lining Has a Cloud by Scott   StevensGarbage Bag Suitcase by Shenandoah Chefalo
Social Work/Human Service Books
282 books — 135 voters


Stewart Stafford
The Reluctant Guest by Stewart Stafford My hand extended to an off-the-grid stray; Yet, still he scowls, And smacks it away. Near-gone from the world, His blindfold horizon quails, That veteran heart stiffens, As frozen asphalt exhales. A ghost at his own funeral, Thwarting hopes of a life— Institutionalised in cement, A fold in warm cardboard strife. Frontal assault to backdoor pivot: Dinner in his mother’s memory. A toothless grin at my tactic, A bridge to nourishing festivity. © 2025, St ...more
Stewart Stafford

Mohammed Zaki Ansari
childhood is not for sell, children are not content
Mohammed Zaki Ansari, The Silent Crisis

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