A review by heykellyjensen
Necessary Trouble: Americans In Revolt by Sarah Jaffe

One of those contemporary social history books you can read most of and get the juice from or that you can skip around and pull what it is you're looking for. Good, readable, albeit for me, a little longer than necessary and at times repetitive. A look at the ways that the people in the US have been demanding more from/of their governments and society as a whole and how the movements -- Occupy, Black Lives Matter, Anti-Austerity -- have similar goals and intentions and motions behind them. Jaffe's goal is to highlight the power of and necessity of intersectionality and she does a pretty good job at it. This would be an especially good read for those budding feminists and social justice folks still grappling with what intersectionality means.

It was nice to see a whole chapter about the Wisconsin anti-austerity movement (aka, prop 10), since that is criminally under discussed in social movements.