Books we’ve read and recommend.
Messaging
- Don’t Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives by George Lakoff (2004)
- Recommendation: High
- How we say things is sometimes more important that what we say (Review)
Race
- Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (2007)
- Recommendation: High
- We not only have to struggle with conscious racism, but also unconscious racism (Review)
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (2013)
- Recommendation: High
- So, yeah – people figured out how to legalize taking away civil rights from people of color (Review)
- Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (2008)
- Recommendation: High
- Did you know that slavery didn’t end 150 years ago with the Civil War? (Review)
Women’s Issues
- Pro-Choice and Christian: Reconciling Faith, Politics, and Justice by Kira Schlesinger (2017)
- Recommendation: High
- An interesting take on being pro-choice – from a perspective of faith (Review)