Over the last two decades Oprah Winfrey’s journey has taken her from talk show queen to, as Time Magazine has asserted, one of the most important figures in popular culture. Through her... Read more »
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order, is Noam Chomsky’s examination of neoliberal ideology—the belief in the supremacy of “free” markets to drive and govern human affairs. Chomsky reveals the roots of... Read more »
Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism, the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the... Read more »
In the five speeches contained in this pamphlet, Pan-Africanist revolutionary Thomas Sankara explains how the peasants and workers of the West African country Burkina Faso (formerly known as Upper Volta) established a... Read more »
This book documents and assesses Obama’s record on domestic and foreign politics against his perceived agenda for change. Although mainstream journalists have noted discrepancies between Obama’s perceived original vision and reality, Paul... Read more »
Under Thomas Sankara’s leadership, the revolutionary government of Burkina Faso in West Africa set an electrifying example. Peasants, workers, women, and youth mobilized to carry out literacy and immunization drives; to sink... Read more »
One of the most pressing challenges facing educators in the U.S. is the specter of an “ethnic and cultural war”—a code phrase that engenders our society’s licentiousness toward racism. In Dancing with... Read more »
Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth, is a compilation of four essays which recounts the history, politics, and modern day uses of catastrophic scenarios, be they real or fiction, for... Read more »
Matigari ma Njirũũngi (which means in Gĩkũyũ “the patriots who survived the bullets”—the patriot who survived the liberation war, and their political offspring), descends the mountains victorious after fighting in the long independence... Read more »
We here at Conscientization 101 would not have been able to make it through Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy, without Distinguished Professor of Anthropology & Geography at... Read more »