American non-profit publisher
South End Press Status Defunct (July 2014) Founded 1977 Defunct 2014 Country of origin United States Headquarters location Boston (1977–2009) Brooklyn (2009–2014) Publication types Books Owners Worker-owned and -operated collective Official website southendpress.org
South End Press was anon-profit book publisher run on a model ofparticipatory economics .[citation needed It was founded in 1977 inBoston 'sSouth End . It published books written bypolitical activists , notablyArundhati Roy ,Noam Chomsky ,bell hooks ,Winona LaDuke ,Manning Marable ,Ward Churchill ,Cherríe Moraga ,Andrea Smith ,Howard Zinn ,Jeremy Brecher and Scott Tucker. South End Press closed in 2014.
South End Press was founded in 1977 byMichael Albert ,[ 1] Lydia Sargent , John Schall, Pat Walker,Juliet Schor ,[ 2] Boston 'sSouth End and run as anegalitarian collective with decision-making equally shared.
The publisher experienced financial difficulties in the2008 financial crisis , with sales dropping by 12.8% in 2008. In 2009, South End Press moved to a new office inBrooklyn ,New York , partnering withMedgar Evers College of theCity University of New York .[ 3] [ 4]
South End Press closed in July 2014. Howard Zinn and an anonymous author had reportedly not received royalties for several years.[ 4]
Some of South End Press's catalog has been republished including work by Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Dana Frank and Vanessa Tait (byHaymarket Books ), Jeremy Brecher (byPM Press ),[ 4] Frank B. Wilderson III and Dean Spade (byDuke University Press ),[ 5] Vandana Shiva (byNorth Atlantic Books ).[ 6]
In 2014, commenting on the demise of the publisher,Monthly Review [ 7]
The founders of South End Press have also been involved with two ongoing political media projects, 'Speak Out' and 'Z Magazine '. They have worked with a number of media and research institutions including Alternative Radio,Political Research Associates ,[ 8] [ 9] INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence .[ 10]
Brecher, Jeremy.Strike! Chomsky, Noam .Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians 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 byDean 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 byManning 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: TheTrilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management . (1980)ISBN 0-89608-103-6 ISBN 0-89608-104-4 OCLC 6958001 . 604 pages.Excerpts available online .Sklar, Holly .Washington's War on Nicaragua ISBN 978-0896082953 ISBN 978-0896082960 Sklar, Holly .Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood ISBN 978-0896085114 Sklar, Holly .Chaos Or Community?: Seeking Solutions, Not Scapegoats for Bad Economics ISBN 978-0896085114 Sklar, Holly .Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies that Work for All of Us Susan Wefald . (2001)ISBN 978-0896086838 Tait, Vanessa.Poor Workers' Unions: Rebuilding Labor from Below INC Pamphlet (series) (jointly published with Institute for New Communications)[ 11] PACCA Series on the Domestic Roots of U.S. Foreign Policy[ 12] Race and Resistance[ 13] Radical Sixties[ 14] South End Pamphlet (series)[ 15] South End Political Controversies Series[ 16] South End Press Classics[ 17] ^ "From SDS to Life After Capitalism: Z Mag Founder Michael Albert on Activism, "Parecon" and a Model for a Participatory Society" . Democracy Now. Retrieved3 June 2015 .^ "Julie Schor" .Institute for Advanced Study . Archived fromthe original on 15 December 2012. Retrieved9 April 2015 .^ Rosen, Judith (10 December 2009),"South End Press moves to Brooklyn" ,Publishers Weekly , retrieved9 January 2010 ^a b c Rosen, Judith (24 July 2014)."South End throws in the towel" .Publishers Weekly South End, which hasn't published a new book in the past five years, … is about to dissolve. ^ "DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS BRINGS SOUTH END PRESS BOOKS BACK INTO PRINT" . Duke University Press. Retrieved20 April 2015 .^ "Letter from the Publisher: Vandana Shiva - North Atlantic Books" . 2015-08-21. Retrieved2016-07-07 .^ "October 2014 (Volume 66, Number 5) - The Editors - Monthly Review" .monthlyreview.org . 1 October 2014. Retrieved20 April 2018 .^ Berlet, Chip (1995-01-01).Eyes Right!: Challenging the Right Wing Backlash ISBN 9780896085237 ^ Committee on Women, Population and the Environment (2002).Policing the National Body: Sex, Race, and Criminalization ISBN 9780896086609 . Retrieved2017-03-18 . ^ "Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology | incite-national.org" .www.incite-national.org . Retrieved2017-03-18 .^ se:INC pamphlet , worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 November 2024.^ se:PACCA series on the domestic roots of U.S. foreign policy , worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 November 2024.^ se:Race and resistance series , worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 November 2024.^ se:Radical sixties , worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 November 2024.^ se:Pamphlet (South End Press) , worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 November 2024.^ se:South End Press political controversies series , worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 November 2024.^ se:South End Press classics , worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
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