LibGuides: ENC 1102 Civic Action: Arts &amp; Culture #2 Read a Non-fiction or Fiction Book: Non-Fiction Print Books

Sustainability by Julie Sze (Editor)
Call Number: North Circulation HC79.E5 S86156 2018
ISBN: 9781479894567
Publication Date: 2018-07-03
A critical resource for approaching sustainability across the disciplines Sustainability and social justice remain elusive even though each is unattainable without the other. Across the industrialized West and the Global South, unsustainable practices and social inequities exacerbate one another. How do social justice and sustainability connect? What does sustainability mean and, most importantly, how can we achieve it with justice?
Racial Justice in the Age of Obama by Roy L. Brooks
Call Number: North Circulation E185.615 .B7297 2009
ISBN: 9780691141985
Publication Date: 2009-08-23
How America can achieve greater racial equality in the post-civil rights era With the election of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States, the issue of racial justice in America occupies center stage. Have black Americans finally achieved racial justice? Is government intervention no longer required?
Earth Democracy by Vandana Shiva
Call Number: North Circulation HM671 .S457 2015
ISBN: 9781623170417
Publication Date: 2015-10-27
World-renowned environmental activist and physicist Vandana Shiva calls for a radical shift in the values that govern democracies, condemning the role that unrestricted capitalism has played in the destruction of environments and livelihoods. She explores the issues she helped bring to international attention--genetic food engineering, culture theft, and natural resource privatization--uncovering their links to the rising tide of fundamentalism, violence against women, and planetary death.
Is Everyone Really Equal? by Özlem Sensoy; Robin DiAngelo
Call Number: North Circulation LC191 .S38 2017
ISBN: 9780807758618
Publication Date: 2017-07-30
Based on the authors' extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the book addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. This comprehensive resource includes new features such as a chapter on intersectionality and classism; discussion of contemporary activism (Black Lives Matter, Occupy, and Idle No More); material on White Settler societies and colonialism; pedagogical supports related to "common social patterns" and "vocabulary to practice using"; and extensive updates throughout.

Creative Non-Fiction (Banned Books)

My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
Call Number: D810.J4 S643 1986
ISBN: 9780394541556
Publication Date: 1991-11-01
An autobiographical and biographical cartoon in which the author explores his strained relationship with his father, an Auschwitz survivor, while also relating the story of his parent's experiences as Jews in wartime Poland, as told to him by his dad during a series of conversations they had years later in New York and Vermont.
Maus II: a Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
Call Number: POPBK MAUS
ISBN: 9780679729778
Publication Date: 1992-09-01
The second installment of graphic novel acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal) and "the first masterpiece in comic book history" (The New Yorker) * PULITZER PRIZE WINNER A brutally moving work of art--widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written--Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author's father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats. Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma.