SASI Reading Recommendations
SASI members are encouraged to read various articles relating to social justice and equity. Below are journal articles, online media sources, and books that SASI members have read and would like to encourage others to read. Many of these articles can be found through UCI Libraries’ access or for free online. Consider visiting a local bookstore or library for physical/audio books .
Journal Articles
Collection at All Costs: Examining the Intersection of Mass Incarceration and the Student Debt Crisis
Reflections On Resistance, Decolonization, and the Historical Trauma of Libraries and Academia
Addressing Extremism
Putting Equity into Practice: Social Justice Education
Understanding Education for Social Justice
The Value of Free Speech
Martin H. Redish
-Kayode
Northern Lights: The Black Freedom Struggle Outside the South
Thomas J. Sugrue, Haley Leuthart
-Kara
Navigating between two cultures: Immigrants’ gender attitudes toward working women
Léa Pessin, Bruno Arpino
-Nghia
“To Suddenly Discover Yourself Existing”: Uncovering the Impact of Community Archives
Michelle Caswell; Marika Cifor; Mario H. Ramirez
-Kara
Online
Climate Mapping for Resilience & Adaptation
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
-Kara
Being Laxmi: 'I belong to the hijra, the oldest transgender community'
The Guardian (YouTube)
-Kara
We Already Are
Yusef Omowale
-Kara
The Changing World Order
Ray Dalio
-Kayode
Abortion Access as a Racial Justice Issue
Katy Backes Kozhimannil, Asha Hassan, Rachel R. Hardeman
-Kara
Stonewall and Its Impact on the Gay Liberation Movement
Digital Public Library of America
-Kara
Books
The Book of Disappearance
Ibtisam Azem: the story of a Palestinian man whose disappearance is a metaphor for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
-Alexa
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou: an autobiography where the author shares her struggles growing up, focused on racism, sexual abuse, and self discovery
-Alexa
Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America
Shefali Luthra
-Nghia
The Poppy War
R.F. Kuang: inspired by Chinese Mythology and History, a fantasy book that touches on war and loss and how children are shaped from it
-Alexa
Tensions of Modernity: Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment
Daniel R. Brunstetter
-Kayode
Education for Social Justice: Achieving Wellbeing for All
Laura Chapman
-Dhriti
Social Justice, Education and Identity
edited by Carol Vincent
-Dhriti
The Drone Eats With Me; A Gaza Diary
Atef Abu Saif: a collection of poems about life under Israeli occupation
-Alexa
Small Country
Gael Faye: a semi-autobiographical novel set in the 1990s, the story follows the life on an 11-year-old boy during the Rwandan genocide
-Alexa
Hell of a Book
Jason Mott
-Nghia
A Map of Home
Randa Jarrar: a rebellious Palestinian-Egyptian girl navigates her complex identity while being forced to flee her country
-Alexa
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
-Kayode
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt
-Nghia
Case Studies on Diversity and Social Justice Education
Paul C. Gorski, Seema G. Pothini
-Dhriti
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini: set in Afghanistan, two women are brought together by tragedy and forced into brutal marriage with their abusive husband
-Alexa
Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
Brea Baker
-Nghia
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison: set in the 1940s, a young Black girl is convinced that having blue eyes is the only way to be beautiful
-Alexa
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Christy Lefteri: the story of a couple fleeing Syria in hopes of building a new life
-Alexa
Women, Race and Class
Angela Davis
-Nghia
Social Justice in Schools: A Framework for Equity in Education
Charles A. Barrett
-Dhriti
The Equity & Social Justice Education 50
Baruti K. Kafele
-Dhriti