Reading for Racial Justice
NOTE: The following works are intended for the edification and self-reflection of AmeriCorps members serving with Campus Compact of Oregon. Their placement here does not constitute an endorsement of or agreement with the opinions presented in the below works.
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On Oppression, Hierarchy, & Ways of Knowing
Other Strategies & Models
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On Oppression, Hierarchy, & Ways of Knowing
- Algorithmic Value: Cultural Encoding, Textuality, and the Myth of 'Source Code' (Pratistha Bhattarai)
- Aristotle for Women Who Love Too Much (Rosalind Hursthouse)
- Black CyberFeminism: Intersectionality, Institutions and Digital Sociology (Tressie McMillan Cottom)
- Black Feminist Epistemology - Chapter 23 (Patricia Hill Collins)
- Borderlands: La Frontera - The New Mestiza (Gloria E Anzaldua)
- Changing Race, Changing Sex - The Ethic of Self-Transformation (Cressida J Heyes)
- Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (Adrienne Rich)
- Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics (Giovanni Sartori)
- Decentering Whiteness - Resisting Racism in the Women's Studies Classroom (Patti Duncan)
- Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics (Kimberle Crenshaw)
- Difference and Dominance - On Sex Discrimination (Catherin A MacKinnon)
- Discipline and Punish - The Birth of the Prison, excerpt (Michel Foucault)
- Feminism is a Black Thing: Feminist Contributions to Black Family Life (Carolyn M West)
- Feminist Encounters - Locating the Politics of Experience (Chandra Talpade Mohanty)
- Five Faces of Oppression (Iris Young)
- Gender and Race: What Are They; What Do We Want Them To Be (Sally Haslanger)
- Hermeneutics, Political Inquiry, and Practical Reason: An Evolving Challenge to Political Science (Michael T Gibbons)
- Holographic Epistemology - Native Common Sense (Manulani Aluli Meyer)
- Homeplace - a site of resistance (bell hooks)
- In the Penal Colony (Franz Kafka)
- Indigenous epistemology, wisdom and tradition; changing and challenging dominant paradigms in Oceania (Max Quanchi)
- Indigenous feminism without apology (Andrea Smith)
- Indigenous girls and the violence of settler colonial policing (Jaskiran K Dhillon)
- Interpretive Social Science and the 'Native's Point of View' - A Closer Look (Todd Jones)
- Intersectionality as a Social Movement Strategy - Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (Jennifer Jihye Chun, George Lipsitz, and Young Shin)
- Intersectionality Reading List
- UPP – A REDUÇÃO DA FAVELA A TRÊS LETRAS: UMA ANÁLISE DA POLÍTICA DE SEGURANÇA PÚBLICA DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO (Marielle Franco)
- Meta-analysis of field experiments shows no change in racial discrimination in hiring over time (Lincoln Quillian, Devah Pager, Ole Hexel, Arnfinn H Midtboen)
- On Complex Communication (Maria Lugones)
- Oppression (Marilyn Frye)
- Pedagogy Oppressed (Paolo Freire)
- Practicing Love: Black Feminism, Love-Politics, and Post-Intersectionality (Jennifer C Nash)
- Racialized Punishment and Prison Abolition - Chapter 6 (Angela Davis)
- Reading the Slender Body (Susan Bordo)
- Refusal to forgive: Indigenous women's love and rage (Rachel Flowers)
- Separating From Heterosexualism (Sarah Hoagland)
- Teaching To Transgress (bell hooks)
- The Agent-Structure Problem and Institutional Racism (Colin Wight)
- The Body in Pain: the Making and Unmaking of the World - Introduction (Elaine Scarry)
- The Coloniality of Gender (Maria Lugones)
- The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House (Audre Lorde)
- The New 'Peculiar Institution' - On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto (Loic Wacquant)
- The Politics of Socialist Feminism (Alison M Jaggar)
- The risks of empathy: Interrogating multiculturalism's gaze (Megan Boler)
- The Second Sex, Woman as Other - Introduction (Simone de Beauvoir)
- The Subjection of Women (John Stuart Mill)
- The Transfeminist Manifesto (Emi Koyama)
- The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action (Audre Lorde) and Poetry is Not a Luxury (Audre Lorde)
- Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment Motility and Spatiality (Iris Marion Young)
- Transforming Cultural Conflict in an Age of Complexity (Michelle LeBaron)
- Uncrossed Bridges - Islam, feminism, and secular democracy (Asma Barlas)
- Undoing Gender 1 - Beside Oneself - On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy (Judith Butler)
- Undoing Racism - Three Pillars - (Andrea Smith)
- Vision, Privilege, and the Limits of Tolerance - Cris Cullinan
- What's In A Name: Womanism, Black Feminism, and Beyond (Patricia Hill Collins)
- When White Women Cry: How White Women's Tears Oppress Women of Color (Mamta Motwani Accapadi)
- White Fragility (Robin DiAngelo)
- Woman & the History of Philosophy Chapter 1; Reading Philosophy As A Woman (Nancy Tuana)
- Women and Honor - Some Notes on Lying (Adrienne Rich)
Other Strategies & Models
- Building Effective Peer Mentoring Programs (Patti MacRae & Michael Garringer)
- Towards a Tension-Based Definition of Digital Literature (Serge Bouchardon)
- Transformational Grounded Theory: Theory, Voice, and Action (Michelle Redman-MacLaren and Jane Mills)
- Turing’s Menagerie: Talking Lions, Virtual Bats, Electric Sheep and Analogical Peacocks (Gary McKeown)