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Imagination: A Manifesto

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Ruha Benjamin builds an immensely compelling and insightful narrative around the concept that our imaginations already know what a better world looks like. It’s a reminder that we can do what we set our minds too, and that imagination is a perfectly fine building block to start from.

A Boston Globe Best book of 2024

One of The Millions's Most-Anticipated Books of Winter 2024

One of Greater Good Magazine's Favorite Books for Educators in 2024


In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future.

A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn’t strangle the life out of people? Naive. A society where everyone ha...

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