Teaching Activity. By Alma Anderson McDonald.
A teacher looks back on her childhood to discover the meaning of environmental racism. Linda Christensen offers ways to teach about this story with students.
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Book — Non-fiction. Edited by Josh Davidson, with Eric King. 2023. 420 pages.
Oral histories of 36 current and former political prisoners of different liberation movements who describe what led them to prison, how they survived, and how they continue to struggle for a better world.
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Book — Non-fiction. By bell hooks. 2014. 206 pages.
Examines the impact of sexism on Black women during slavery, the devaluation of Black womanhood, Black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the Black woman’s involvement with feminism.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Michelle Alexander. Introduction by Cornel West. 2010, updated 10th-anniversary edition released in 2020. 336 pages.
A critical analysis of the role the justice system plays in the oppression of African Americans in the United States.
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Overview of Native American activism since the late 1960s, including protests at Mt. Rushmore, Alcatraz, Standing Rock, and more.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Edwidge Danticat. 2008. 288 pages.
A gripping autobiographical book, about one Haitian woman's experience as a young immigrant and her family's struggle to survive in the United States while fearing for those they left behind.
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Film. Directed and produced by Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre. 2006. 68 minutes.
The impact of globalization as told through the lives of the women who experience it in Tijuana, Mexico.
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Profile.
Diane Wilson (born 1948) is a shrimp fisher, environmentalist, and activist.
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It’s worth pausing to note how profoundly corporate textbooks mis-educate our students on the years of warfare in Iraq.
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In September 2005, Hurricane Katrina, the third deadliest storm in U.S. history, took a disproportionate toll on the Gulf Coast’s Black residents. The impact of Katrina is still felt today for Gulf Coast residents.
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The Harlem Park Three — Alfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart, and Ransom Watkins — spent decades imprisoned on a wrongful conviction before gaining their freedom in 2019.
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Protests erupted across India as the government deregulated Indian agriculture, endangering the livelihoods of farmers by commercializing an industry that employs over half the population.
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Digital collection. Publishes public-facing research about the broad consequences of U.S. military operations and spending, including their domestic effects, and the ongoing costs of the U.S. post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw. 2026. 400 pages.
This memoir traces the way Crenshaw’s lived experiences led her to articulate the concepts of intersectionality and critical race theory.
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Book — Non-fiction. By by Yolanda Alaniz and Megan Cornish, with a foreword by Rodolfo Acuña. 2008. 368 pages.
A history of Chicana/o militancy, from the occupation of Northern Mexico to the 1990s.
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Environmental and animal rights political prisoner Marius Mason was released from federal prison after serving seventeen years for acts of property damage carried out in defense of the planet.
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