Recommended Viewing...
Blue Eyed - California Newsreel
Born into Brothels - Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman
Bowling for Columbine – Michael Moore
Control Room - Jehane Noujaim
The Corporation – Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott,
Joel Bakan
Crash – Paul Haggis
Fahrenheit 911 – Michael Moore
OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism - Robert
Greenwald
John Q - Nick Cassavetes
Race: The Power of an Illusion – California Newsreel
The Wal-Mart Movie – Robert Greenwald
Recommended Reading...
Fiction
Egalia’s Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes by Gerd
Bratenberg and Louis McKay
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Breath Eyes and Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Edgewater Angels by Sandro Meallet
The Chosen Place, The Timeless People by Paule Marshall
Stigmata by Phyllis Alesia Perry
The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
Native Son by Richard Wright
Gender/Sexuality
Gender by Bob Connell
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Zami: A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lorde
General Justice
Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
A Better World Handbook by Haenfler Jones and Klocke
Johnson
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Genocide
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
by Romeo Dallaire and Samantha Power
Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and
the Holocaust by Daniel Johan Goldhagen
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With
Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
Poverty
Flat Broke With Children by Sharon Hays
One Nation, Underprivileged by Mark Robert Rank
The Other Side of the River by Alex Kotlowitz
There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
Working Poor: Invisible in America by David Shipler
Racism
Racism Without Racism by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm
X
Killing Rage, Ending Racism by bell hooks
A Country of Strangers by David Shipler
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
by Beverley Daniel Tatum
It’s the Little Things: The Everyday Interactions that
Get Under the Skin of Blacks and Whites by Lena Williams
White Like Me by Tim Wise
War/Nonviolence
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and The Pentagon Papers by
Daniel Ellsberg
Is There No Other Way? by Michael Nagler