INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence

A must-read for a generation of young people going into or considering nonprofit work. This is a great compilation of essays defining and exploring how nonprofits and foundations co-opt and dominate struggles and make them complicit with capitalism and the state. As disenchanted as I already was with nonprofits, I could take a lot from this book.

This isn't a hard book to get through from a vocabulary stand point, but the theories are far more radical than I can identify with - thus it took more than a week to get through the first essay. It does raise some awesome ideas to ponder. But I guess since I am a professional feminist, I've already sold out to the man.

A great look at how nonprofit organizations undermine radical community change and grassroots organizing by working within the US capitalist model. However, I found some of the essays to be rather repetitive, so I skimmed/skipped the last two. I found the essay on organizing for Palestine liberation to be the best one in the book.

Brilliant, nuanced, unusual. This is not a rehash of the same-ol politics. Styles vary widely in the degree of academic baffle-gab employed, but all contain unique ideas. Emi Koyama's thoughtful and self-reflective critique of domestic violence shelters is worth the price of admission.