Reading List
Race Relations and Transformative Justice
Week 1 - What is transformative justice?
Barnard Center for Research on Women. (2020, March 11). What is transformative justice? [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-_BOFz5TXo
brown, a.m. (2015, July 9). What is/isn’t transformative justice? adrienne maree brown. http://adriennemareebrown.net/2015/07/09/what-isisnt-transformative-justice/
brown, a.m. (2020). We are still beginning. In a.m. brown, We will not cancel us: And other dreams of transformative justice (pp. 65-74). AK Press.
Kim, M.E. (2018). From carceral feminism to transformative justice: Women-of-color feminism and alternatives to incarceration. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 27(3), 219-233.
Mingus, M. (2019, January 11). Transformative justice: A brief description. Transform Harm. https://transformharm.org/tj_resource/transformative-justice-a-brief-description/
Week 2 - What is cancel culture?
brown, a.m. (2020). Unthinkable thoughts: Call-out culture in the age of COVID-19. In a.m. brown, We will not cancel us: And other dreams of transformative justice (pp. 35-64). AK Press.
Clark, M.D. (2020). Drag them: A brief etymology of so-called cancel culture. Communication and the Public, 5(3/4), 88-92.
Hemphill, P. (Host). (2021, May 31). Navigating conflict with Kazu Haga (No. 7) [Audio podcast episode]. In Finding our way. https://www.findingourwaypodcast.com/individual-episodes/s2e7
Ng, E. (2020). No grand pronouncements here…: Reflections on cancel culture and digital media participation. Television & News Media, 21(6), 621-627.
Romano, A. (2020, August 25). Why we can’t stop fighting about cancel culture. Vox. https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/12/30/20879720/what-is-cancel-culture-explained-history-debate
Sailofsky, D. (2022). Masculinity, cancel culture and woke capitalism: Exploring Twitter responses to Brendan Leipsic’s leaked conversation. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 57(5), 734-757.
Week 3 - How can cancel culture and punishment shift to transformative justice?
Krebs, N.D. (2020). “Krazy kripples” and the transformative body politics of disability and race: Watching South Park in the age of “cancel culture”. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 14(3), 301-316.
Palacios, L.C. (2016). “Something else to be:” A Chicana survivor’s journey from vigilante justice to transformative justice. philoSOPHIA, 6(1), 93-108.
Ross, L. (2019, August 17). I’m a Black feminist. I think call-out culture is toxic. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/opinion/sunday/cancel-culture-call-out.html
We Are Man Enough. (2021, July 26). ALOK: The urgent need for compassion [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq3C9R8HNUQ&t=1s
Week 4 - How do we define accountability?
Barnard Center for Research on Women. (2020, October 13). What is accountability? [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZuJ55iGI14
Haga, K. Principle three: Attack forces of evil, not persons doing evil. In K. Haga, Healing resistance: A radically different response to harm (pp. 123-138). Parallax Press.
Kim, M.E. (2011-2012). Moving beyond critique: Creative interventions and reconstructions of community accountability. Social Justice, 37(4), 14-35.
Koyama, E. (2006). Disloyal to feminism: Abuse of survivors within the domestic violence shelter system. In INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence (Eds.), Color of violence: The INCITE! Anthology (pp. 208-222). Duke University Press.
Week 5 - What are race relations?
Du Bois, W.E.B. (1948). Race relations in the United States 1917-1947. Phylon, 9(3), 234-247.
hooks, b. (2009). Solidarity: Women and race relations. In b. hooks, Writing beyond race: Living theory and practice (pp. 39-57). Routledge.
Muhannad Ayyash, M. (2022). The toxic other: The Palestinian critique and debates about race and racism. Critical Sociology.
Passmore, B. (2016). Your Black friend. Silver Sprocket.
Thompson, C. & Crocket, F. (2022). Race, repair, and youth participatory action research in one rural school. Race and Rurality in Education, 43(1), 1-12.
Week 6 - How can we reckon racism in educational settings and more broadly?
Kumashiro, K. (2002). Theories and practices of antioppressive education. In K. Kumashiro, Troubling education: “Queer” activism and anti-oppressive pedagogy (pp. 31-75). Routledge.
Ray, R. (2022). Race-conscious racism: Alibis for racial harm in the classroom. Social Problems, 1-16.
Sensoy, O., & DiAngelo, R. (2014). Respecting differences? Challenging the common guidelines in social justice education. Democracy & Education, 22(1), 1-10.
Tuck, E., & Fine, M. (2007). Inner angles: A range of ethical responses to/with Indigenous and decolonizing theories.” In N. Denzin and M. Giardina (Eds.), Decolonizing the Politics of Knowledge (pp. 145-167). Routledge.
Week 7 - Reading Week
Week 8 - How can cross racial solidarity be transformative?
El-Sherif, L. (2019). A pedagogy of Palestine: Settler colonialism, Indigeneity, and diasporic belonging in Canada. In A. Zainub, Decolonization and anti-colonial praxis (pp. 99-105). Brill.
Gaztambide-Fernández, R.A. (2012). Decolonization and the pedagogy of solidarity. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1), 41-67.
Kohli, R. (2012). Racial pedagogy of the oppressed: Critical interracial dialogue for teachers of color. Equity & Excellence in Education, 45(1), 181-196.
Ng, M. (2021, June 23). In racial solidarity: Historicizing anti-Asian racism, violence, and white supremacy in Canada. Active History. https://activehistory.ca/2021/06/in-racial-solidarity-historicizing-anti-asian-racism-violence-and-white-supremacy-in-canada/
Shah, V., & Peek, M. (2020). Mythologies of “we”: Whiteness in cross-racial solidarity work. Professing Education, 19(1), 41-54.
Week 9 - How can abolition and transformative justice be framed as pedagogy?
Cheung, C. (2021). Abolition pedagogy is necessary. Journal of Higher Education in Prison, 1(1), 50-68.
El Mugammar, R. (n.d.). In our own hands: Tools for talking abolition & transformative justice with little ones. Retrieved on December 28, 2022 from https://abolitionist.tools/In-Our-Own-Hands
Kaba, M. (2021). So you’re thinking about becoming an abolitionist. In M. Kaba, We do this ‘til we free us: Abolitionist organizing and transformative justice (pp. 2-5). Haymarket Books.
Rodríguez, D. (2010). The disorientation of the teaching act: Abolition as pedagogical practice. The Radical Teacher, 88, 7-19.
Week 10 - Where do we begin when whiteness pervades and takes over?
Accapadi, M.M. (2007). When white women cry: How white women’s tears oppress women of color. The College Student Affairs Journal, 26(2), 208-215.
Mbakogu, I., Duhaney, P., Ferrer, I., & Lee, E.O.J. (2021). Canadian Social Work Review, 28(2), 113-140.
powell, j.a. (2012). Interrogating privilege, transforming whiteness. In j.a. powell, Racing to justice: Transformative conceptions of self and other to build an inclusive society (pp. 75-101). Indiana University Press.
UB Gender Institute. (2021, February 24). Loretta Ross lecture: “Calling in, not calling out” [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW7amaAlnso&t=2520s
Week 11 - How can transformative justice take form in the classroom or school?
Shah, V. (2018). Leadership for social justice through the lens of self-identified, racially and other-privileged leaders. Journal of Global Citizenship & Equity Education, 6(1).
Shah, V., Cuglievan-Mindreau, G., & Flessa, J. (2022). Reforming for racial justice: A narrative synthesis of the literature on district reform in Ontario over 25 years. Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 198, 35-54.
Souto-Manning, M., & Stillman, J. (2020). In the pursuit of transformative justice in education of teacher educators. The New Educator, 1, 1-4.
Thurber, A., & DiAngelo, R. (2018). Microaggressions: Intervening in three acts. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 27(1), 17-27.
Wilson, M. (2020). Realizing the contradictions of equity work: An analysis of discourse, ignorance, and discrimination in the Ontario public education system. Professing Education, 19(1), 12-25.
Week 12 - Is there hope?
Hemphill, P. (Host). (2021, May 3). Hope, questioning, and getting lost with Bayo Akomolafe (No. 3) [Audio podcast episode]. In Finding our way. https://www.findingourwaypodcast.com/individual-episodes/s2e3
hooks, b. (2000). Healing: Redemptive love. In b. hooks, All about love: New visions (pp. 207-221). Harper Perennial.
Kaba, M. (2021). Reika Boyd and #FireDanteServin: An abolitionist campaign in Chicago. In M. Kaba, We do this ‘til we free us: Abolitionist organizing and transformative justice (pp. 119-126). Haymarket Books.
Palacios, L. (2018). With immediate cause: Intense dreaming as world-making. Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics,1, 57-67.
Jarrar, K. (2022). Fashioning hope out of despair: How to resist and win inside Israeli prisons. In R. Baroud & I. Pappé, Our vision for liberation: Engaged Palestinian leaders & intellectuals speak out (pp. 175-182). Clarity Press.
Leberecht, T. (n.d.). The power of losing hope. House of Beautiful Business. https://houseofbeautifulbusiness.com/read/the-power-in-losing-hope