South End Press
South End Press was a non-profit book publisher run on a model of participatory economics. It was founded in 1977 in Boston's South End. It published books written by political activists, notably Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, bell hooks, Winona LaDuke, Manning Marable, Ward Churchill, Cherríe Moraga, Andrea Smith, Howard Zinn, Jeremy Brecher, Lawrence Soley and Scott Tucker.
South End Press
- Founded
- 1977
- Founder
- Michael Albert · Lydia Sargent · Juliet Schor
- Headquarters
- Boston · Brooklyn
- Dissolved
- 2014
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South End Press was a non-profit book publisher run on a model of participatory economics. It was founded in 1977 in Boston's South End. It published books written by political activists, notably Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, bell hooks, Winona LaDuke, Manning Marable, Ward Churchill, Cherríe Moraga, Andrea Smith, Howard Zinn, Jeremy Brecher, Lawrence Soley and Scott Tucker.
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Overview
Press closed in 2014.
It is associated with United States. The record gives 1977 as its date of establishment or first appearance. Activity is recorded as ending in 2014. Its recorded founders are Michael Albert, Lydia Sargent and Juliet Schor. Its recorded seat is Boston and Brooklyn.
Key facts
Key facts
• Status — Defunct (July 2014) • Founded — 1977 • Country — United States • Headquarters — Boston (1977–2009) Brooklyn (2009–2014) • Publications — Books • Owner — Worker-owned and -operated collective • Url — southendpress.org
History
History
South End Press was founded in 1977 by Michael Albert, Lydia Sargent, John Schall, Pat Walker, Juliet Schor, Mary Lea, Joe Bowring, and Dave Millikin, among others. It was based in Boston's South End and run as an egalitarian collective with decision-making equally shared. The publisher experienced financial difficulties in the 2008 financial crisis, with sales dropping by 12.8% in 2008. In 2009, South End Press moved to a new office in Brooklyn, New York, partnering with Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York. A fundraising campaign was run in 2012 to help ease its financial situation. South End Press closed in July 2014. Howard Zinn and an anonymous author had reportedly not received royalties for several years.
Book series
Book series
• INC Pamphlet (series) (jointly published with Institute for New Communications) • PACCA Series on the Domestic Roots of U.S. Foreign Policy • Race and Resistance • Radical Sixties • South End Pamphlet (series) • South End Political Controversies Series • South End Press Classics
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1977
South End Press established.
1977
South End Press is recorded from 1977.
1977
South End Press was established or created on 1 January 1977.
2014
South End Press ceased.
2014
South End Press was dissolved or ceased in 2014.
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Publications
• Brecher, Jeremy. Strike! • Chomsky, Noam. Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians. Foreword by Edward W. Said. • Churchill, Ward; Wall, Jim Vander. Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the American Indian Movement and the Black Panther Party. • Churchill, Ward; Wall, Jim Vander. The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents From the FBI’s Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States. • Clare, Eli. Exile & Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation. Afterword by Dean Spade. • Frank, Dana. Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America. • Georgakas, Dan; Surkin, Marvin. Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution. Foreword by Manning Marable. • Hooks, Bell. Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery. • Hooks, Bell. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. • Marable, Manning. How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society. • Moraga, Cherríe. Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca pasó por sus labios. • Sklar, Holly. Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management. (1980),. 604 pages. Excerpts available online. • Sklar, Holly. Washington's War on Nicaragua. (1988),. 472 pages. • Sklar, Holly. Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood. Co-authored with Peter Medoff. (1994). 221 pages. • Sklar, Holly. Chaos Or Community?: Seeking Solutions, Not Scapegoats for Bad Economics. (1995). 221 pages. • Sklar, Holly. Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies that Work for All of Us. Co-authored with Laryssa Mykyta and Susan Wefald. (2001). 262 pages. • Tait, Vanessa. Poor Workers' Unions: Rebuilding Labor from Below.
Legacy
Some of South End Press's catalog has been republished including work by Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Dana Frank and Vanessa Tait (by Haymarket Books), Jeremy Brecher (by PM Press), and Eli Clare, Andrea Smith, Frank B. Wilderson III and Dean Spade (by Duke University Press), and Vandana Shiva (by North Atlantic Books). In 2014, commenting on the demise of the publisher, Monthly Review said it was "an important and vital part of the overall left movement".
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Context
The circumstances in which South End Press stands. Established or created on 1 January 1977. Press has its headquarters at Brooklyn. Recorded as publishing house. Dissolved or ceased in 2014. Press has its headquarters at Boston. Founded by Michael Albert. Founded by Lydia Sargent. Situated in United States. Founded by Juliet Schor.
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- “South End Press”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q3492249: South End Press
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- 1.Letter from the Publisher: Vandana Shiva - North Atlantic Books. 2015-08-21.
- 2.October 2014 (Volume 66, Number 5) - The Editors - Monthly Review. monthlyreview.org. 1 October 2014.
- 3.Berlet, Chip. Eyes Right!: Challenging the Right Wing Backlash. South End Press. 1995-01-01. 9780896085237.
- 4.Committee on Women, Population and the Environment. Policing the National Body: Sex, Race, and Criminalization. South End Press. 2002. 9780896086609.
- 5.Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology incite-national.org. www.incite-national.org.
- 6.se:INC pamphlet, worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
- 7.se:PACCA series on the domestic roots of U.S. foreign policy, worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
- 8.se:Race and resistance series, worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
- 9.se:Radical sixties, worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
- 10.se:Pamphlet (South End Press), worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
- 11.se:South End Press political controversies series, worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
- 12.se:South End Press classics, worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
- 13.Duke University Press. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS BRINGS SOUTH END PRESS BOOKS BACK INTO PRINT.
- 14.Institute for Advanced Study. Julie Schor.
- 15.Democracy Now. From SDS to Life After Capitalism: Z Mag Founder Michael Albert on Activism, "Parecon" and a Model for a Participatory Society.
- 16.Rosen, Judith. South End Press moves to Brooklyn. Publishers Weekly. 10 December 2009.
- 17.Rosen, Judith. South End throws in the towel. Publishers Weekly. 24 July 2014.
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