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Winner of a 2022 ALA Alex Award Winner of the 2023 Cartoonist Studio Prize for Print Comics One of The Washington Post‘s 10 Best Graphic Novels of the Year * One of NYPL’s Best Books of the Year * A Publishers Weekly “Best Book of the Year” A formative coming-of-age graphic memoir by the creator…
“Do not underestimate the power of the book you are holding in your hands.”–Michelle Alexander More than 2 million people are now imprisoned in the United States, producing the highest rate of incarceration in the world. How did this happen? As the director of The Sentencing Project, Marc Mauer has long been one of the…
Adapted from the landmark essay Enforcing Order, this striking graphic novel offers an accessible inside look at policing and how it leads to discrimination and violence. What we know about the forces of law and order often comes from tragic episodes that make the headlines, or from sensationalized versions for film and television. These gripping…
After guards find a book in his cell containing the pencilled name of a suspected gang member, Rodrigo Santiago is “validated” for gang affiliation and sent to indefinite solitary confinement in the Pelican Bay State Prison Secure Housing Unit, or SHU. Life in the SHU is monotonous, isolating, and enraging. It literally drives prisoners insane….
After guards find a book in his cell containing the pencilled name of a suspected gang member, Rodrigo Santiago is “validated” for gang affiliation and sent to indefinite solitary confinement in the Pelican Bay State Prison Secure Housing Unit, or SHU. Life in the SHU is monotonous, isolating, and enraging. It literally drives prisoners insane….
Winner, ALA ALEX Award An urgent, groundbreaking and visually stunning new collection of graphic storytelling about the present Iranian revolution, using comics to show what would be censored in photos and film in Iran. Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, returns to graphic art with this collaboration of over 20 activists, artists, journalists, and academics working…
This fierce, smart interweaving of punch-packing art and powerful, precise words lays bare the authoritarianism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and misogyny that populate the political landscape of the United States today. Designed especially to inform and activate younger readers, these pages pay particular attention to the threats facing the most basic tenets of American democracy, exemplified…
Book 4 Warning: This book contains an epic adventure that places three fourth graders in extreme danger! Hiro, Bryan, and Zahra, our favorite Senshi Warriors, are once again saving the galaxy. This time however, they’ve got help from The Teacher’s Pet (and an entire backpack full of enhanced school supplies). Don’t miss their latest adventures,…
Book 5 Warning: This book contains an epic adventure that places three fourth graders in extreme danger! Hiro, Bryan, and Zahra, our favorite Senshi Warriors, are once again saving the world. As it turns out, the best way to save the world is by designing bulletproof 3D printed Halloween costumes. Who knew? Don’t miss their…
NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A striking graphic novel edition of the National Book Award-winning history of how racist ideas have shaped American life–from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist. NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD Racism has persisted throughout history–but so have antiracist efforts to dismantle it. Through deep…
NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A striking graphic novel edition of the National Book Award-winning history of how racist ideas have shaped American life–from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist. NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD Racism has persisted throughout history–but so have antiracist efforts to dismantle it. Through deep…
Intersektionalität ist eine disziplinenübergreifende analytische Perspektive, mit deren Hilfe sowohl die Konstitution und Verschränkung identitätslogischer Kategorien als auch multiple Formen der Diskriminierung und normativen Klassifizierung betrachtet werden. Intersektionalität steht in enger Beziehung zu den Gender-, Queer- oder auch Dis/Ability und Postcolonial Studies. Die Auseinandersetzung mit der ‘sequenziellen Kunst’ aus intersektionaler Perspektive ist ein Desiderat der…
“This compelling book developed by one of the world’s leading actors on statelessness, demonstrates the cost of collective apathy and marginalisation on real lives. Can you stand for the erasure of identity? Will you turn away because it does not concern you? Or will you take a stand with those that work to hold power…
