In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action by Vicky Osterweil

In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action

Vicky Osterweil

288 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy.Looting — a crowd of people publicly, openly, and directly seizing goods — is one of the more extreme actions that can take place in the midst of s...

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