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Social Justice Syllabus

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

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Many of these titles can be purchased through local, independent booksellers like Red Emma’s, The Ivy, and Greedy Reads. Many can also be found on audiobook sites like Audible

We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander

The Village Bully, Maria Broom (2004 OSI Community Fellow)

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, Mehersa Baradaran

Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein

Emergent Strategy, adrienne marie brown

Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay

With My Head Unbowed, Brion Gill (2015 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow)

Race, Class, Power and Organizing in East Baltimore, Marisela Gomez

Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice, Jessica Gordon Nembhard

Wealth Accumulation and Communities of Color in the United States: Current Issues, Jessica Gordon Nembhard and Ngina Chiteji

Refugee, Alan Gratz

On the Courthouse Lawn, Sherrilyn Ifill 

This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female and Feminist in (White) America, Morgan Jerkins

Feminist Queer Crip, Alison Kafer

Hood Feminism, Mikki Kendall

How to be Anti-Racist, Ibram X. Kendi

Savage Inequalities, Jonathan Kozol

Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde

Crip Theory, Robert McRuer

Khalil’s Way, David Miller (1999 OSI Community Fellow)

Brooklyn’s Finest: The Greene Family Farm, David Miller (1999 OSI Community Fellow)

Pushout: the Criminalization of Girls in Schools, Monique Morris (2012 Soros Justice Fellow)

The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson

Ghost Boys, Jewell Parker Rhodes

Not in My Neighborhood, Antero Pietela

Assata: An Autobiography, Assata Shakur

What I Learned in the Midst of Kaos: The Making of an Ubuntu Teacher, LaMarr Shields (2016 OSI Community Fellow) and Marina V. Gilmore

Lessons of Redemption, Kevin Shird

Knocking the Hustle, Lester Spence

Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson 

The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas

Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It, Mindy Thompson Fullilove

Black Seeds, Tariq Toure

Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance, Edgar Villanueva

We Speak for Ourselves, D. Watkins

The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley, Malcolm X and Alex Haley

 

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