As a community we are focusing on the issue of immigration for Lent 2018. Opening ourselves up to immigrant stories, struggles, and growing in awareness on the issue in all of its complexities. Here are a few reading resources to get you started. Know a good book that’s not on the list? Post it in the comments below.
By Rinku Sen with Fekkak Mamdouh
San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2008
By David Ngaruri Jenney & Philip G. Schrag
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008
By Douglas S. Massey, Jorge Durland & Nolan J. Malone
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002
By Otto Santa Ana
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002
By David Bacon
Ithica, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006.
By David Bacon
Boston: Beacon Press, 2008
The Line Between Us: Teaching About the Border & Mexican Immigration
By Bill Bigelow
Milwaukee: Rethinking Schools, Ltd., 2006
By Timothy J. Dunn
Austin: Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1996
By Jacqueline B. Mondros & Scott Wilson
New York: Columbia University Press, 1994
Designed to help build powerful community organizations, empower ordinary citizens to become leaders, and bring about major social and economic change, this book offers a coherent practice-based framework for understanding social action, with power and empowerment at the center of analysis. Topics include recruiting members, consensus building, leadership, publicity, and fundraising.
By Howard Zinn
New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005
By Allan G. Johnson
Dubuque, Iowa: McGraw-Hill, 2001
By Robert Jensen
New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2004
By Mike Hudema, Illustrated by Jacob Rolfe
Toronto: Between the Lines, 2004
A concise guide to planning and executing 52 different protest actions, ranging in seriousness from “radical cheerleading” to setting up blockades. Hudema has done an excellent job in this book of documenting a variety of fun, and potentially effective, street (e.g. blockades, sit-ins), street-theater, and media tactics often used throughout the anti-capitalist movement.
-It’s a film but I would 100% recommend the film, Documented: A Film by an Undocumented America. PHENOMENAL!
-Welcoming the Stranger by Matthew Soerens and Jennifer Hwang