Books
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart (Alicia Garza)
The Purpose of Power is Alicia Garza's personal story, her background, her experiences in organizing, leading, and activism in general, and the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement, but it is also the story of the utmost importance in organizing, participating, and actively working towards real change.
(Racial Justice)
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Beverly Tatum)
Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication across racial and ethnic divides.
These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious.
These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious.
(Racial Justice)
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color (Ruby Hamad)
An historical and cultural criticism that argues that white feminism, from Australia to Zimbabwe to the United States, has been a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against black and indigenous women, and all women of color.
(Intersectionality) (Racial Justice)
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Carol Anderson)
From the Civil War to our combustible present, White Rage reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to Black progress in America.
(Racial Justice)
Uncommon Common Ground (Angela Glover Blackwell)
This is is an important book on several levels. It provides intelligent policy analysis regarding the powerful demographic trends and multi-decade data projections that display the reconfiguring of this nation's ethnic and cultural character.
(Identity and Community)
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements (Charlene Carruthers)
This book offers a vision for how social justice movements can become sharper and more effective through principled struggle, healing justice, and leadership development.
(Intersectionality) (Racial Justice)
Equity, Growth, and Community: What the Nation Can Learn from America's Metro Areas (Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor)
In the last several years, much has been written about growing economic challenges, increasing income inequality, and political polarization in the United States.
This book argues that lessons for addressing these national challenges are emerging from a new set of realities in America’s metropolitan regions: first, that inequity is, in fact, bad for economic growth; second, that bringing together the concerns of equity and growth requires concerted local action; and, third, that the fundamental building block for doing this is the creation of diverse and dynamic epistemic (or knowledge) communities, which help to overcome political polarization and help regions address the challenges of economic restructuring and social divides.
This book argues that lessons for addressing these national challenges are emerging from a new set of realities in America’s metropolitan regions: first, that inequity is, in fact, bad for economic growth; second, that bringing together the concerns of equity and growth requires concerted local action; and, third, that the fundamental building block for doing this is the creation of diverse and dynamic epistemic (or knowledge) communities, which help to overcome political polarization and help regions address the challenges of economic restructuring and social divides.
(Identity and Community)