(categories are loose)
Student Work!
2014 SOAN Thesis by Molly Shane
“Learning Social Responsibility or Protecting the American Nobility? Understanding the Ideological Context of Middlebury College”
2013 SOAN Thesis by Melissa Mittelman and Jay Saper
“The Analyst and The Activist: A Look Into Student Discourse Surrounding Wall Street Recruitment and Resistance at Middlebury College”
Gender & Feminism
Feminism is for Everybody, bell hooks
Under Western Eyes and Feminism Without Borders, Chandra Mohanty
Redefining Realness, Janet Mock
Normal Life, Dean Spade
Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, Lila Abu-Lughod
Women, Race, and Class, Angela Davis
Precarious Life, Judith Butler
The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto, Sandy Stone
My New Gender Workbook, Kate Bornstein
Race and Racism
The Angela Y. Davis Reader, edited by Joy James
This Bridge Called My Back, edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa
White Like Me, Tim Wise
Assata, Assata Shakur
Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde
The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America, Melissa Harris-Perry
State and Economy
Anarchy Alive!, 2008, Uri Gordon
Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky
Are Prisons Obsolete? Angela Davis
Days of War and Nights of Love, CrimethInc.
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, David Graeber
T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Hakim Bey
Class Matters, bell hooks
Debt: The First 5000 Years, David Graeber
Decolonization and Indigeneity
Conquest, Andrea Smith
I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala, Rigoberta Menchu
Sexuality
The Ethical Slut, Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy
Yes Means Yes, Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti
From Gender to Sexuality, Gayle S. Rubin
Playing the Whore, Melissa Gira Grant
Sex Without Guilt, Albert Ellis
Transformative Education
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Friere
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, Marshall Rosenberg
The Shame of the Nation, Jonathan Kozol
Every Day Anti Racism, Mica Pollock
Other People’s Children, Lisa Delpit
Fiction
The Dispossessed, Ursula Leguin
The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey
Stone Butch Blue, Leslie Feinberg
Radical Practice
Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook, 2005, CrimethInc. Ex-Workers’ Collective
Earth First! Direct Action Manual, 2014, Earth First!
Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching, 1993, Dave Foreman and Bill Haywood
Steal this Book, 1971, Abbey Hoffman
Blogs
protest-highered.tumblr.com
blackgirldangerous.org
http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/
Other disorientation guides! (We drew inspiration for this guide from Tufts, Colombia, University of California Santa Cruz, and University of Minnesota)
Film List
Breaking the Spell, 1999
Black Power Mixtape, 2011
Boys Don’t Cry, 1999
Capitalism: A love story, 2009
Cowspiracy, 2014
End:Civ, 2011
El Violín, 2005
Food Inc., 2008
Edible City: Grow the Revolution, 2012
Harlan County USA, 1977
How to Survive a Plague, 2012
Inside Job, 2010
La Jaula de Oro, 2013
Milk, 2008
The Great Dictator, 1940
Paris is Burning, 1990
PickAxe, 1999
Slingshot Hip Hop, 2008
The Take, 2004
Thelma and Louise, 1991
The Weather Underground, 2002
The Yes Men Fix the World, 2009
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