Recommended Readings

Social Justice

Illness

On Being Ill,

Virginia Woolf

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors,

Susan Sontag

Prison Industrial Complex

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness, Michelle Alexander

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Michel Foucault

Globalization and Economics

Confessions of an Economic Hitman, John Perkins

The Shock Doctrine, 

Naomi Klein

The Price of Inequality,

Joseph Stiglitz

Dead Aid, 

Dambisa Moyo

Race (also check this great compilation!)

The Invention of the White Race,
Theodore W. Allen

Killing Rage, Ending Racism,
bell hooks

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness,
George Lipsitz

The Myth of the Model Minority,

Rosalind Chou and Joe Feagin