SASI Sponsored Sources

As part of SASI’s commitment to educating UCI’s undergraduate population on JDEI, SASI members continuously read various articles relating to these topics. Below are the articles/books that SASI members have read and would like to encourage others to read. Listed first are the most recommended from the documents that members read during SASI’s first year (2021) as part of their orientation. Below are all of the articles that SASI has read from the weekly article dicussions.

What is Critical Environmental Justice?

This document is an excerpt from David Naguib Pellow’s “What is Critical Environmental Justice.” SASI has

annotated this excerpt to emphasize important or helpful information, with the annotation key at the top

of the document. The excerpt briefly introduces the topic of Critical Environmental Justice by explaining the

three fundamental pillars of the study.

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A Marxist Education

This is a PDF document of Wayne Au’s A Marxist Education: Learning to Change the World. A Marxist

Education addresses Marxism, capitalism, and neoliberalism in terms of education and begins to address

the potential ways to change the neoliberal education pedagogy.

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Student Debt

9/23/2022

Collection at All Costs: Examining the Intersection of Mass Incarceration and the Student Debt Crisis

This article was chosen by SASI member Elizabeth Lee. The article is a report published by the Student Borrower Protection Center and National Consumer Law Center. The article explores the barriers that incarcerated student loan borrowers face financially and how this effects their ability to repay their loans.

Columnist Richard Fein: Student Debt Cancellation is Bad Policy

This article was chosen by SASI member Jade Nettrour. While this article is an opinion column from the opposers perspective, it served for a comparison of view points. The article explains why the author finds President Joe Biden’s executive order of student debt relief a bad governmental and fiscal decision.