Suggestions for Further Community Reading
Organized groups must see themselves through the upside-down reading of history
We place an emphasis on a reading of history and power that supports how the organized group sees themselves in the history of this struggle. The following list of publications is not comprehensive, and only serves as starting point to begin locating ourselves in the history of community organizing today.
"Development Without Displacement" by Causa Justa/ Just Cause and the Alameda County Public Health Department, 2015
"GES People's Survey: A Story of Displacement" by GES Coalition, 2017
"Communities Not Commodities" by Homes For All, 2018
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Our History is the Future by Nick Estes
I've Got the Light of Freedom by Charles M. Payne
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby
The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth by the Red Nation
As Black As Resistance by Zoe Samudzi and William C. Anderson
We Do This Till We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
"Organization Means Commitment" by Grace Lee Boggs
Sweetness and Power by Stanley Mintz
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois
The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement by Monica M. White
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis and the Next by Dean Spade
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshimi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shaun L. Harrison
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
The Meaning of Freedom and Other Difficult Dialogues by Angela Y. Davis
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang
Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators by Mariame Kaba & Shira Hassan
Turning Towards Each Other: A Conflict Workbook by Jovida Ross & Weyam Ghadbian