Through reading we build our knowledge, insight, and joy. I am extremely grateful to read the work of incredible South Africans and other great authors such as Paulo Freire, Frantz Fanon, and Gloria Ladson-Billings to name a few. Below I share texts which deeply impact my practice, my worldview, and my understanding of diversity, equity and justice. Click the categories below to filter for easier viewing.
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- Recommended Reads For 2020
- South African Politics
- Race, Power, and Privilege
- Education
Breaking A Rainbow, Building A Nation (Rekgotsofetse Chikane)
Always Another Country (Sisonke Msimang)
Democracy and Delusion (Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh)
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Trevor Noah)
Black Consciousness and Progressive Movements Under Apartheid (Ian Macqueen ed)
Khwezi (Redi Tlhabi)
Change: Organizing Tomorrow Today (Jay Naidoo)
Race Otherwise (Zimitri Erasmus)
Rhodes Must Fall (Rhodes Must Fall)
Diversity Consiousness (Richard Buchner)
The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children (Gloria Ladson-Billings)
Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle For South Africa (Padraig O’ Mailey)
Community or Class Struggle (John Cowley)
On the Side of The Poor (Gustavo Gutierrezi)
No Life Of My Own (Frank Chikane)
Fire in The Heart How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice (Mark Warren)
Rules for Radicals (Saul Alinksky)
The Wretched of the Earth (Frantz Fanon)
Pedagogy Of The Oppressed (Paulo Freire)
No Longer Whispering to Power- The Story Of Thuli Madonsela (Thandeka Gqubule)
The President’s Keepers (Jacques Pauw)
The Impossible WIll Take A Little While (Paul Loeb ed.)
How To Fix South Africa’s Schools (Jonathan Jansen & Molly Blank)
I Write What I Like (Steven Bantu Biko)
Other People’s Children (Lisa Delpit)
Could I Vote DA? (Eusebius Mckaiser)
The Coming Revolution (Floyd Shivambu ed)
You Have To Be Gay To Know G-d (Siya Khumalo)
Dreams, Betrayal and Hope (Mamphela Ramphele)
My Own Liberator (Justice Dikgang Mosenke)
Capitalism A Ghost Story (Arundhati Roy)
The Land is Ours (Tembeka Ngcukaitobi)
117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation (Ruth First)
Run Racist Run: Journeys Into The Heart Of Racism (Eusebius Mckaiser)
The Madonna Of Excelsior: A Novel (Zakes Mda)
Teaching to Transgress Education as the Practice of Freedom (bell hooks)
Making Love in a War Zone (Jonathan Jansen)
Pedagogy Of Freedom (Paulo Freire)
The Spirit of Marikana (Luke Sinwell and Siphiwe Mbatha)
We Should All Be Feminists (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Indaba My Children African Folktales (Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa)
The Heart Of Redness (Zakes Mda)
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Woman in the Wings (Carien Du Plessis)
Born to Kwaito (Esinako Ndabeni & Sihle Mthembu)
Intersectionality of Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Teacher Education (Norvella Carter)
We Need To Talk (Jonathan Jansen)
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