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Books read in whole for BHS Program in Social Justice Leadership:
Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett, Jennifer Gonnerman
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography, Paul Rusesabagina (with Tom Zoellner)
Excerpts from the following books are read (alphabetical by author):
Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky
The Better World Handbook: Small Changes the make a Big Difference, Ellis Jones, Ross Haenfler, Brett Johnson
Kaffir Boy, Mark Mathabane
Doing Democracy: The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements, Bill Moyer with JoAnn McAllister, Mary Lou Finley and Steven Soifer
Letters from Young Activists: Today's Rebels Speak out, Dan Berger, Chesa Boudin , Kenyon Farrow and Bernardine Dohrn
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time, Paul Rogat Loeb
The Impossible with take a while: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear, Paul Rogat Loeb
28 Stories of AIDS in Africa, Stephanie Nolen
Telling Stories to Change the World: Global Voices on the Power of Narrative to Build Community and Make Social Justice Claims, Rickie Solinger, Madeline Fox, Kayhan Iran, Eds.
Recommended reading for praxis (asking questions that lead to transformation) and Social Justice (list under construction):
Introducing Liberation Theology, Leonard Boff and Clodovis Boff
Crime and Punishment in America, Elliot Currie
Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun, Geoffrey Canada
AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame, Paul Farmer
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor, Paul Farmer
Racism: A Short History, George M. Fredrickson
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire
Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic, James Gilligan
A Human Being Died the Night: Pumla Gobodo--Madikizela
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man who would Cure the World, Tracy Kidder
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life, Annette Lareau
The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects our Health and Longevity, Michael Marmot
The Trouble with Diversity: How we Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass, Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, Samantha Power
Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue Collar Jobs, Deirdre Royster
Orientalism, Edward W. Said
The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality, Thomas M. Shapiro
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, Michele-Rolph Trouillot
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Support Victims of Haiti Earthquake
No country in the Western hemisphere has been battered more than Haiti in the last 500 years--the nearly complete annihilation of its native population in about 2 decades, a brutal slave regime, foreign military interventions over hundreds of years, dictatorship supported by western powers, blockades of aid and more recently devastating hurricanes--and now the earthquake. Haitians are a strong and resilient people--they were the first country in the world to establish an independent republic by former slaves. Unfortuantely, the United States has often been on the side of Haitian dictators and not the poor majority. Let's help build a new Haiti. Please give to Partners In Health. Learn more about relief for Haiti.
