We asked our team what they were reading 📖 this summer 🏖️.
We loved the responses so much, we thought we’d share them with you. So without further ado, here’s our 2023 Civility Localized Summer Reading List!
Inclusive Transportation by Veronica O. Davis
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
This brilliant book shines a light on the inequitable and often destructive practice of transportation planning and engineering. It calls for new thinking and more diverse leadership to create transportation networks that connect people to jobs, education, opportunities, and to each other.
Pink Elephant by Janice Gassam Asare, Ph.D.
The Racial Revolution of 2020 pushed anti-racism to the forefront of the global conversation. For the first time in history, many companies have had to take an honest look at how little progress has been made in regard to racial equity in the workplace. The diversity, equity, and inclusion industry has been around for decades and strides have been made to create a more diverse workforce, however, more must be done to ensure that people of various backgrounds feel respected, valued and included. The Pink Elephant is a practical guide to creating a more racially equitable workplace for all employees. This book explores tools for effective racial dialogue, how to unpack and understand our privilege, best practices for anti-racism workshops, and strategies to break the habit of systemic racism in the workplace. For anyone looking to transfer the lessons learned in the summer of 2020 into corporate America, this is the book for you.
Just Action by Richard Rothstein & Leah Rothstein
Just Action: HOW TO CHALLENGE SEGREGATION ENACTED UNDER THE COLOR OF LAW.
The Color of Law brilliantly recounted how government at all levels created segregation. Just Action describes how we can begin to undo it.
In his best-selling book The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein demolished the de facto segregation myth that black and white Americans live separately by choice, providing “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to the reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson). This landmark work—through its nearly one million copies sold—has helped to define the fractious age in which we live. In this follow-up text, Rothstein and Rothstein show how community groups can press the very firms that imposed segregation to finally take responsibility for reversing the harm. The goal is to create victories that might finally challenge residential segregation and help remedy America’s profoundly unconstitutional past.
And for when you don’t have time to read an entire book, we also had team members list the following Honorable Mentions:
The Black Urbanist Blog by Kristen Jeffers
Where Reparations Stand in the US, NYT July 2023
Whether you’re reading a paperback from the library at the beach, or listening to an audiobook while you drive to work, we want to know what you’re reading this summer! Catch up with us on social media and comment what you’re reading. Bonus points if the works expand equity and inclusion anywhere in the world!
