num_pages: 224
description: A world dominated by America and driven by cheap oil easy credit and conspicuous consumption is unraveling before our eyes. In this powerful deeply humanistic book Grace Lee Boggs a legendary figure in the struggle for justice in America shrewdly assesses the current crisispolitical economical and environmentaland shows how to create the radical social change we need to confront new realities. A vibrant inspirational force Boggs has participated in all of the twentieth centurys major social movementsfor civil rights womens rights workers rights and more. She draws from seven decades of activist experience and a rigorous commitment to critical thinking to redefine revolution for our times. From her home in Detroit she reveals how hope and creativity are overcoming despair and decay within the most devastated urban communities. Her book is a manifesto for creating alternative modes of work politics and human interaction that will collectively constitute the next American Revolution.
language: English
title: The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
publisher: University of California Press