Social Justice & Women's Studies

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11 Dec 2024—31 Dec 2029

Overview

 Social Justice & Women's Studies

Reading is Resistance!

De-colonize your history references,  education, and bookshelves. 

Fight the patriarchy! 

Core values: 
  • Anti-ableism, 
  • Anti-racism & white supremacy, 
  • Anti-queerphobia & transphobia, 
  • Anti-misogyny & patriarchy, 
  • Anti-colonialism, 
  • Anti-monosexism, heterosexism, & cisgenderism, 
  • Pro-survivor & anti-abuse, 
  • Anti-capitalism, Harm reduction & trauma-informed responses

A journey through learning via books both fiction and nonfiction during the next five years.

"Women's Studies is a category of books that focuses on the experiences, perspectives, and contributions of women in society. It encompasses a wide range of topics, including gender roles, feminism, women's history, sexuality, and reproductive rights. The goal of Women's Studies is to promote a deeper understanding of the social, cultural, and political issues that affect women, and to empower women to challenge and change the status quo. Books in this category often offer critical analysis and insights into the ways in which gender intersects with other forms of oppression, such as race, class, and sexuality."

If you would like to do a book club with some of these reads or a Readalong, let me know via email at blreads@gmail.com, and I'll set it up. 

Challenge Books

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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Jonathan Kozol

272 pages • 1991 • 9 editions

nonfiction education sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back by Donald Cohen, Allen Mikaelian

The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back

Donald Cohen, Allen Mikaelian

368 pages • 2021 • 4 editions

nonfiction economics politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition by Thomas J. Sugrue

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition

Thomas J. Sugrue

375 pages • 1996 • 1 edition

nonfiction history sociology informative slow-paced
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom

Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

Joshua Bloom

504 pages • 2013 • 9 editions

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Peniel E. Joseph

The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

Peniel E. Joseph

384 pages • 2020 • 5 editions

nonfiction biography history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement by Patricia Sullivan

Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement

Patricia Sullivan

514 pages • 2009 • 3 editions

nonfiction history politics emotional informative reflective slow-paced
The Religion of Whiteness: How Racism Distorts Christian Faith by Michael O. Emerson, Glenn E. Bracey II

The Religion of Whiteness: How Racism Distorts Christian Faith

Michael O. Emerson, Glenn E. Bracey II

208 pages • 2024 • 3 editions

nonfiction politics race religion sociology medium-paced
Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion by Nishta J. Mehra

Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion

Nishta J. Mehra

224 pages • 2019 • 4 editions

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow by David L. Chappell

A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow

David L. Chappell

360 pages • 2003 • 2 editions

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

296 pages • 2019 • 6 editions

nonfiction history race informative reflective slow-paced