Black Orchid Collective, “Reading for Revolution” (3-Part Series)
Jo Freeman, “Tyranny of Structurelessness”
Starhawk, “Circles & Webs: Group Structures”
Facilitating Free U Participation Beyond NYC: A Short Guide to Regional Organizing
Adrienne Rich, the SEEK Program, and Social Movements at the City College of New York, 1968-1972
On the City as University: Occupy and the Future of Public Education
“Teaching Freedom: SNCC and the Creation of the Mississippi Freedom Schools”
Paulo Freire’s classic text “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”
Further reading:
- Jeff Bale and Sarah Knopp, eds. Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation.
- Martha Biondi, The Black Revolution on Campus.
- Harry Edwards, Black Students.
- W.E.B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction.
- Roderick Ferguson, The Reorder of Things: The University and its Pedagogies of Minority Difference.
- Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study.
- Bell Hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedom.
- Bell Hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope.
- Bell Hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom.
- Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society.
- June Jordan, Black Studies: Bringing Back the Person.
- Annie McClanahan, The Living Indebted: Student Militancy and the Financialization of Debt.
- Jodi Melamed, Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism.
- Charles M. Payne and Carol Sills Strickland, eds. Teach Freedom: Education for Liberation in the African-American Tradition.
- Jacques Ranciere, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation.
- Adrienne Rich, Teaching Language in Open Admissions. Secrets, Lies, and Silence.
- Ibram H. Rogers, The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972.
- Fabio Rojas, From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline.
- University of California student movement writings, Communique From an Absent Future: On the Terminus of Student Life.
- Heather Andrea Williams, Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom.
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