Recommended Readings, Videos and Podcasts
Narratives about Community
• Chimamanda Adichie, “The Danger of a Single Story” (2009)
• Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Letter to My Son” from Between the World and Me (2015) The Atlantic
• Francisco Homes Residents, 48th Street Anthology: Stories from the Truly Free (2018)
• Francisco Homes Residents, Free Writers (2021)
• Jesús Villacaña López , “I left Moroleón at Daybreak with Great Sadness” Espejos y Ventanas (2012)
• Luis J. Rodriguez “Love Poem to Los Angeles” (2017) (text, audio, and video) • Students at Manual Arts High School, “Freedom and Future” from Sounds of Freedom (2019)
• Stacey Waite, Selections from Butch Geography (2013)
Scholarship on Community Engagement
• Linda Flower, “The Rhetoric of Engagement” and “What is Community Literacy?” Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Public Engagement (2008): pp. 1-21.
• Carmen Kynard “Teaching While Black: Witnessing and Countering Disciplinary Whiteness, Racial Violence, and University Race-Management” LiCS 3.1 March 2015
• Audrey Lorde, “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action” (1977) Sister Outsider
• Tania D. Mitchell and David M. Donahue “Ideal and Real in Service Learning” (2017) Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development
• Stephen Parks, “Community Partnerships” Writing Communities (2017): pp. 171- 187.
• Nedra Reynolds, “Reading Landscapes and Walking the Streets and Maps of the Everyday” Geographies of Writing: Inhabiting Places and Encountering Difference (2004)
• Elaine Richardson and Alice Ragland, “#StayWoke: The Language and Literacies of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement” Community Literacy Journal, 12.2 (Spring 2018): pp. 27-56
• Mike Sonsken, “The History of South Central Los Angeles and Its Struggle with Gentrification” (2017) KCET
• Rachel Will “Revisiting USC’s Old ‘University Village’ as Gentrification Spreads Around the Campus” (2018) L.A. Taco
Social Issues
• “Black, Homeless and Burdened by L.A.’s Legacy of Racism” (2019) by Jugal K. Patel, Tim Arango, Anjali Singhvi, and Jon Huang, NYT
• “Straddling the school-to-prison pipeline and gender non-conforming microaggressions as a Latina lesbian” (2018) by Jacqueline Caraves, Journal of LGBT Youth
• "The Rise of the Tent Ward: Homeless Camps in the Era of Mass Incarceration” by Jessie Speer
• “Ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline/Building Abolition Futures” by Erica R. Meiners
• “Youth, Poetry, and Zines: Rewriting the Streets as Home” by Elizabeth Marshall and Theresa Rogers
• “Is YIMBYism the Answer to America’s Housing Crisis?” (2020) The New Republic
• Samaritans podcast hosted by Anna Scott on NPR
• We The Unhoused podcast hosted and produced by Theo Henderson on StreetWatchLA
• “Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Podcast” hosted by Liam Dillon and Matt Levin
• 13TH (2016) directed by Ava DuVernay on Netflix
• Ear Hustle podcast on Radiotopia
• “Segregated Education” (2019) from What Makes Us Human? podcast
• “The Problem We All Live With” (2015) with Nikole Hannah Jones This American Life
• “Nice White Parents” (2020) podcast from NYT