Penguin Random House, Sachbücher, Voices of a People's History of the United States in the 21st Century (Englisch, Antho...

Twenty-first century social movements come to life through speeches, essays, and other documents of activism, protest, and social change.In this book, Arnove and Pessin curate voices of hope and resistance from 2000 to the present. The book features speeches, essays, poems, and calls to action from Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, Indigenous struggles, immigrant rights activists, the environmental movement, disability justice organizers, and frontline workers during the global pandemic who spoke out against the life-threatening conditions of their labor.This new companion to the classic collection edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove, Voices of a People's History of the United States, brings together more than 100 texts from social movements that have shaped the 21st century.The book includes contributions from Angela Y. Davis, Nick Estes, Colin Kaepernick, Rebecca Solnit, Christian Smalls, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Howard Zinn, Rev. William Barber, Bree Newsome, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Tarana J. Burke, Dream Defenders, Sins Invalid, Mariame Kaba, Naomi Klein, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Linda Sarsour, Chelsea E. Manning, Chrishaun "CeCe" McDonald, Julian Brave NoiseCat, H. Melt, and others. Together, their words remind us that history is made not only by the rich and powerful, but by ordinary people taking collective action.Voices of a People's History of the United States in the 21st Century offers inspiration for those seeking to understand our recent history in order to change it.