Social Justice Book and Film List February 23, 2009

This is a list of articles, books, and films that I compiled for my Summer ILI Program proposal. Enjoy and/or add!

Excerpts and Articles

·      “Social Construction Theory” by Carole S. Vance

·      “The Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh

·      “The Heterosexual Questionnaire” by Martin Rochlin

·      “For the Love of Feminism” by Dani S. Dela George

·      “There Is No Hierarchy of Oppression” by Audre Lorde

·      “The Prison-Industrial Complex” by Eric Schlosser, The Atlantic

·      Cornell Review on Program Houses

·      “Are Prisons Obsolete?” by Angela Davis

 

Other Books

(Excerpts may be taken out of these.)

·      Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Tatum

·      Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen

·      Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

·      Walking with the Wind: a Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis

·      De Colors Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-colored Century

·      Sundown by John Mathews (American Indian identity)

·      Asian American X: ed. Arar Han and John Hsu

·      Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White by Frank Wu

·      White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Time Wise

·      We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists ed. Melody Berger

·      What Are You? Voices of Young Mixed Race People ed. Pearl Gaskins

·      Two in Twenty Teenagers: Writings by Gay and Lesbian Youth ed. Ann Heron

·      Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem

·      Class Matters ed. The New York Times

·      Race and Class Matters at an Elite College by Elizabeth Aries

·      Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol

·      Does God Exist? The Debate between Theists and Atheists by JP Moreland and Kai Nielsen

 

 

 

Films

·      Eyes on the Prize: The Civil Rights Movement (social action)

·      Rize (community organizing/art)

·      Crash (race/class)

·      Merchants of Cool

·      An Inconvenient Truth (environment)

·      Babel

·      American History X (race)

·      Boys Don’t Cry (gender/sexuality/LGBTQ)

·      Real Women Have Curves

·      Flow: For the love of water

·      Frozen River (Native identity)

·      Snowcake (ability)

·      I am Sam (ability)

·      Angels in America (class/sexuality)

·      Hotel Rwanda (race/ethnicity/social action)

·      Transamerica (gender/sexuality/LGBTQ)

·      Born Into Brothels (gender)

·      A Beautiful Mind (ability)

·      When the Levees Broke (social action)

·      Good Will Hunting (class)

·      Kids

·      Do the Right Thing

·      School Ties

·      Little Miss Sunshine

·      But I’m A Cheerleader

·      Milk

·      Gandhi

·      Jesus Camp (religion)

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