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Social Justice: Books

Resources primarily compiled by 2020-21 Americorps employee Elizabeth Skaff

Diversity Equity & Inclusion Committee Members Recommend

Recommended by Guest Speaker Dr. Ruth White

8 TOP PICKS (Recommended by English Professor Dr. Joseph Hendryx)

Available through interlibrary loan:

a) Beyond Survival:  Strategies & Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement (edited by Ejeris Dixon & Leah Lakshmi Piepzma-Samarasinha)

b) Emergent Strategy (adrienne maree brown)

c) End of Policing (Alex Viale):  "...explores the need for transformative...justice primarily by looking at the ways punishment & incarceration furthers harm & fails to adequately address the myriad of problems we as a society have assigned to the police."

d) How Nonviolence Protects the State (Peter Gelderloos):  "...explore[s] the limitations of entirely nonviolent tactics & debunks the myths that wee have about the historical efficacy of nonviolent tactics...explore[s} a cinokucated grat area."

e) Our History is the Future:  Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (Nick Estes)

f) Unlocking the Magic of Faciitation (Sam Killerman & Meg Bolger):  "....[for those who] are facilitating a group discussion ..outlines principles & strategies for facilitationg inclusive & engaging discussion."

17 TOP PICKS (Recommended by Sociology Professor Dr. Lacey Ritter)

13 TOP PICKS (Recommended by former Sociology Professor Dr. Thaddeus Atzmon)