Social Justice Book Club

Books/Films Discussed:

• The Atlantic, "The Case for Reparations," Ta-Nehisi Coates

• "The State of Black Oregon 2015" Report, Supplementary Material: "White People" [film]

• "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness," Michelle Alexander

• "Race: The Power of an Illusion" [film]

• "White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America," Nancy Isenburg

• "Chaos or Community," Martin Luther King Jr. [link to study guide]

• "Born a Crime," Trevor Noah

• "The Echoverse," in pre-publication by Arya the Scribe

• "Underground Railroad," Colson Whitehead

• "White Rage," Carol Anderson

• "Small Great Things," Jodi Picoult

• "The Color of Water," James McBride

RESOURCES:

• "Social Justice Study Group" -- Guidelines on starting your own group

Websites:

• ILL Doctrine: http://www.illdoctrine.com

• Society Pages: http://thesocietypages.org/#/race 

• Racism Review: http://www.racismreview.com/blog/

• Not In Our Town Princeton: https://niotprinceton.org/ 

• Is Race Real? Debates: http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/

• The Race Story reWrite Project: http://racestoryrewrite.org 

• Seeing White Podcast: http://podcast.cdsporch.org/seeing-white/ 

• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: http://joydegruy.com/resources-2/post-traumatic-slave-syndrome/ 

• Seeing Heaven in the Face of Black Men: http://heaveninthefaceofblackmen.com 

Videos:

• 13th (Netflix documentary about prison industrial complex)

• Decoded: A MTV weekly series on Youtube about race and pop culture

• Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? (7-pt series, Youtube or library)

• Race: Power of an Illusion (3 episodes, check Youtube or local library) 

• Slavery By Another Name (documentary, check Youtube or library)

• Not In Our Town Racial Literacy lecture series 

• TED talk “What it takes to be racially literate”