Reading in 2016/2017- survival, education, openness

BOOKS BY PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE DISPROPORTIONATELY LIKELY TO BE BANNEDhttps://bitchmedia.org/post/diverse-books-authors-top-annual-list-of-most-challenged-titles?platform=hootsuite


Good Girls Revolt Reading List
http://bookriot.com/2016/12/06/good-girls-revolt-reading-list/


Insane Clown President: Matt Taibbi Chronicles Election of "Billionaire Hedonist" Donald Trump

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/1/17/insane_clown_president_matt_taibbi_chronicles

So You Want to Read Dystopian Fiction: Here’s Where to Start

http://www.unboundworlds.com/2017/01/want-read-dystopian-fiction-heres-start/

6 Books That Have Donald Trump to Thank for Their Sales Spike

http://fortune.com/2017/01/30/donald-trump-books/

Handmaid's Tale Trailer

https://youtu.be/CCTLesUR2W4

Freethinkers

https://www.amazon.com/Freethinkers-American-Secularism-Susan-Jacoby/dp/0805077766

My Life On the Road

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15451058-my-life-on-the-road

The beautiful Icelandic tradition of giving books on Christmas Eve

http://www.treehugger.com/culture/icelanders-give-books-christmas-eve.html

President Obama says novels taught him how to be a citizen

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/28/president-obama-says-novels-taught-him-citizen-marilynne-robinson

Political Divide

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/14/501975656/one-way-to-bridge-the-political-divide-read-the-book-thats-not-for-you?live=1&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2042

Brave New World, NOT 1984!

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/feb/02/amusing-ourselves-to-death-neil-postman-trump-orwell-huxley?CMP=share_btn_fb

Obama's recommendations:

http://ew.com/books/2017/01/18/barack-obama-book-recommendations/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/off-the-shelf-/the-new-o-book-club-12-fi_b_14251144.html

https://www.bustle.com/articles/144531-18-books-every-white-ally-should-read

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/16-books-about-race-that-every-white-person-should-read_us_565f37e8e4b08e945fedaf49

http://citizenshipandsocialjustice.com/2015/07/10/curriculum-for-white-americans-to-educate-themselves-on-race-and-racism/

https://longreads.com/2016/07/11/black-lives-matter-a-reading-list/

from this link:

http://citizenshipandsocialjustice.com/2015/07/10/curriculum-for-white-americans-to-educate-themselves-on-race-and-racism/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/08/06/this-is-what-white-people-can-do-to-support-blacklivesmatter/?utm_term=.d2a2a4d1440a

https://docs.google.com/document/d/112by_l48h-fJ0BO6b9ZLi7M16UYf-DrZTo-e-XupcMI/mobilebasic

339 books referenced in Gilmore Girls

https://www.buzzfeed.com/krystieyandoli/all-339-books-referenced-in-gilmore-girls?utm_term=.xkq0OXX5#.lh82EDDG

For a helpful book for parents that explores this issue in depth and offers practical strategies to foster girls' assertiveness, resilience, and integrity, check out "The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence" at http://www.amightygirl.com/the-curse-of-the-good-girl