Seeking recs for non-fiction reads for a book club/professional development reading at work, think of a casual workplace setting like a small educational nonprofit consisting of mostly former classroom teachers or admins. I’m looking for books that are readable, not necessarily super academic/textbook-like.
To give you an idea – we’ve all previously read Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria, Savage Inequalities, bell hooks, Gloria Anzaldua. Recently we’re reading things like: Braiding Sweetgrass, Rest is Resistance, Emergent Strategy.
A couple books I’m looking at for the future include Caste by Isabel Wilkerson and The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander.
I’d love to build up a long list of more titles that we can read and discuss. Any suggestions?
by calmossimo
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Unmasking AI by Joy Buolamwini could be a good addition! It’s about the biases that are baked into AI and implications thereof, told via narrative so quite accessible. very relevant, and does not require any computer science or AI background.
Maybe look at the catalogues of social justice oriented presses? PM Press, AK Press, and Beacon Press are some of my favorites.
Most recently I read The Crip Linguistics Reader edited by Robinson, Henner, & Moriarty, which emphasizes language/communication equity
*What is antiracism and why it means anticapitalism* by Arun Kundnani