Social Justice Initiative Past Readings

2022

Amanda Gorman, Call us What We Carry
High on the Hog (Netflix mini-series)
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
Kareem Abdul Jabbar essay, “Black Cop’s Kid”
Jordan Hirsch, “The Strange Career of Beautiful Crescent”
Brooke Park, “Texas Librarians Face Harassment As They Navigate Book Bans,” (May 17 2022 article from The Texas Tribune)

Chip Colwell, TED talk: Why Museums are Returning Cultural Treasures, and Tara Houska, TED talk: The Standing Rock Resistance and Our Fight for Indigenous Rights
Still Processing podcast, “Asian-Americans Talk About Racism,” part 1 & part 2
The 54th in ’22 by Kirsten Greenidge, from Huntington Theatre’s Dream Boston Audio Play series
Jericho Brown, “The Tradition” (poetry)
Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese (graphic novel)
“13th” (documentary on YouTube or Netflix)
Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns
Crip Camp: a Disability Revolution (documentary on Netflix)
Jim Vrabel, A People’s History of the New Boston
Juila Alvarez, Afterlife

Ibram Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
Sheila Black, Jennifer Bartlett, and Michael Northen (editors), Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Paris is Burning (film)
I Am Not Your Negro (film)
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Ralph Waldo Ellison, Invisible Man
1619 (Podcast)
Uncivil (Podcast)