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Resources for Times of Fascists and Oligarchs

As a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association, their shared values guide the work that we do. Through partnerships with the UUA, its affiliated organizations, and other groups, our books reach audiences who can use our books as resources for movement building. They are also used for professional development to help improve teacher and student experience in the classroom and transform education. Reading groups choose our books to gain a better understanding of current issues or events in American history.

See below for some recommended reading that helps to make sense of the issues and also provides ways for people to take action. Now more than ever, we are committed to lifting up the voices and providing resources that speak to the current political climate and social activism.

Highlighting the Issues

Immigration Dragnet

Aviva Chomsky’s Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
Bill Ong Hing’s Humanizing Immigration: How to Transform Our Racist and Unjust System
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
Aviva Chomsky’s Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal
Reece Jones’s White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall
Amanda Frost’s You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers

Trans Lives Matter

Ricky Tucker’s And the Category Is . . . : Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
Eli Erlick’s Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850–1950
Harrison Browne and Rachel Browne’s Let Us Play: Winning the Battle for Gender Diverse Athletes
Gregory D. Smithers’s Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America
Leslie Feinberg’s Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Marsha P. Johnson and Beyond
Laura Erikson-Schroth and Laura A. Jacobs’s “You’re in the Wrong Bathroom!”: And 20 Other Myths and Misconceptions About Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People

DEI, or Dismantling White Supremacy and Patriarchy by Another Name

OiYan A. Poon’s Asian American Is Not a Color: Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family
Drs. Stephanie Pinder-Amaker and Lauren Wadsworth’s Did That Just Happen?!: Beyond “Diversity”—Creating Sustainable and Inclusive Organizations
M. V. Lee Badgett’s The Economic Case for LGBT Equality: Why Fair and Equal Treatment Benefits Us All
Crystal M. Fleming’s How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
Carol Fulp’s Success Through Diversity: Why the Most Inclusive Companies Will Win
Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Race

The Power to Resist

Alex Zamalin’s All Is Not Lost: 20 Ways to Revolutionize Disaster
David Pakman’s The Echo Machine: How Right-Wing Extremism Create a Post-Truth America
Robin D. G. Kelley’s Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
Mary Frances Berry’s History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times
Charelene A. Charruthers’s Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Bill Ayers’s When Freedom Is the Question, Abolition Is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberation