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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Least We Can Do: White Supremacy, Free Speech, and Independent Bookstores

The Least We Can Do: White Supremacy, Free Speech, and Independent Bookstores

Cook, Josh

Paperback

Business GeneralBusiness of WritingGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $7.95

ISBN10: 1771964650
ISBN13: 9781771964654
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: Sep 14 2021
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.04 Depth: 8.19
Language: English

A bookseller is the being who is most aware of the futility of a book, and of its importance.--Hector Yánover

Like most of our cultural institutions and workers, bookshops and booksellers have worked hard in the last few years to respond to political and social issues in our society. They've formed committees and hosted panels, held training sessions and had difficult conversations in both their private and professional lives. Yet books by White supremacists, fascists, misogynists, and other dangerous ideologues are bought and sold in independent bookshops across North America every day. What are the economic, social, and moral consequences of stocking and selling these titles? In The Least We Can Do, Josh Cook, bookseller at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts, takes up these questions and more, embarking on an urgent and insightful reckoning with critical issues around freedom of expression, public discourse, industry ethics, and moral culpability.

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