Recommended Reading List & Sources FAIR ADVOCACY TOOLKIT
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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Taboo: 10 Facts You Can’t Talk About: Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Reilly, Wilfred Up a Generation for Failure: Lukianof, Greg, Haidt, Jonathan Agency: Inspiring the Next Generation to Build Strong Families and Be Masters of Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Their Own Fate: Rowe, Ian Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity and Why This Harms Everybody: The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods Pluckrose, Helen, Lindsay, James to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are as Truths: Shermer, Michael Divided by Politics and Religion: Haidt, Jonathan Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters: Shrier, Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion Abigail: of Women’s Rights: Hirsi Ali, Ayaan How to Fight Anti-Semitism: Weiss, Bari How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide: Boghossian, Self-Portrait in Black and White: Family, Peter, Lindsay, James Fatherhood, and Rethinking Race: Williams, Thomas Chatterton Free Speech: Why It Matters: Doyle, Andrew Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law: What Do White Americans Owe Black Farber, Daniel A. and Sherry, Suzanna People: Racial Justice in the Age of Post- Oppression: Hill, Jason D
Winning the Race: ON TOTALITARIANISM Beyond the Crisis in Black America: McWhorter, John Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents: Dreher, Rod Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress: Origins of Totalitarianism: Arendt, Hannah Pinker, Steven 1984: Orwell, George How The Other Half Learns: Equality, excellence, and the battle over school choice: Pondiscio, Robert
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My First Little Book of Intersectional ONLINE MAGAZINES Activism: McGrath, Titania City Journal: A Publication of The Manhatten Institutel ONLINE RESOURCES (www.city-journal.org) & ORGANIZATIONS Tablet Magazine: A New Read on Jewish Heterodox Academy Life (www.Tabletmag.com) Quillette: Platform for Free Thought FIRE (thefre.org): Experienced. (www.quillette.com) Nonpartisan. Defending Your Rights. Institute for Humane Studies COMPENDIUM OF (theihs.org) FREE BLACK THOUGHT Counterweight For suggested Resources from (counterweightsupport.com) FreeBlackThought.com, Click here New Discourses MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: FREE BLACK THOUGHT JUST A FEW RECOMMENDATIONS Critical Race Training in Education Martin Luther King Jr. Speeches, ChristopherRufo.com Sermons, Texts: 5 to Know | Time Critical Therapy Antidote Protecting the Integrity of Talking Therapies Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? The James G. Martin Center (King Legacy): King Jr., Martin Luther Dr., Harding, Vincent, for Academic Renewal King, Coretta Scott National Association of Scholars | NAS American Council of Trustees Strength to Love: Martin Luther King Jr and Alumni (goacta.org) Scholars at Risk | Protecting scholars and A Testament of Hope: The Essential the freedom to think, question, and Writings and Speeches: King, Martin share ideas Luther, Washington, James M. Braver Angels
V1.0 50421 Why We Can’t Wait (Signet Classics): King Zach Goldberg, 2019: America’s White Jr., Martin Luther Dr., Jackson, Jesse Saviors, and Goldberg’s original Twitter thread on the NYT CRITIQUES OF WHITE FRAGILITY Alex Tabarok, 2019: The NYTimes is Woke [summarizing Goldberg’s analysis of Watch Chloe Valdary speak here on the NYT word use] Black Intellectual Roundtable hosted by Eric Kaufman, 2019: Bret Weinstein. This podcast features Americans Are some of the most brilliant and educated Divided by Their Views on Race, Not minds discussing issues involving Race Itself [graphs] race in this country. None of them say George Packer, 2019: When the Culture teaching “white fragility” is the answer. War Comes for the Kids [a long and important essay by a journalist with Here is a fantastic open exchange impeccable progressive credentials, between Brown professor Glenn Loury documenting how white progressives in and John McWhorter of Columbia about the Brooklyn public school system got White Fragility, revisionist history, and much more ideological around 2014, in race: (https://youtu.be/GfsH3AaoqYM) ways that harmed students]
In this BBC interview, Thomas Jon Haidt, 2019: The Dark Psychology Chatterson Williams, author and New of Social Networks. Atlantic. [Gives American fellow, discusses BLM and the backstory to the awokening—how the issues of focusing on racial identity social media changed from 2009 to groups instead of individualism. 2013, creating an “outrage machine” In this article he recommends 10 mind- that caused many things to go haywire opening books on race as alternatives beginning around 2014] to White Fragility. Barack Obama, warning democrats and young activists about wokeness: ‘That’s Matt Taibbi’s eye-opening critique Not Activism’ Video and article in NYT of White Fragility, which directly addresses its paradoxical approach and Eric Kaufmann, 2020: The Great very real implications: (https://taibbi. Awokening and the Second American substack.com/p/on-white-fragility) Revolution. Joshua Mitchell, THE SPIRITUAL QUEST MUST-READ ESSAYS AND ARTICLES OF IDENTITY POLITICS. podcast. and see his book: American Awakening: John McWhorter, 2017: Antiracism, Our Identity Politics and Other Afictions of Flawed New Religion Our Time. Andrew Sullivan, 2018: Titus Techera, What Lies Beneath America’s New Religions the Wokeness. Matt Yglesias, 2019: The Great Awokening
V1.0 50421 Randall Kennedy, Radical Critiques of William Deresiewicz: On Political Legal Academia Correctness James Chen, UnLoving Frank Bruni: The Dangerous Safety of College The Orwell Foundation | The Freedom of the Press Jesse Singal: This Is What a Modern-Day Witch Hunt Looks Like Bari Weiss on cancel culture, Leaving The New York Times and self-censorship— Kerri Smith: On Leaving the SJW Cult and Deseret News (2021) Finding Myself The University as the Woke Mission Field: John McWhorter: THE GREAT A Dissident Women’s Studies Ph.D. AWOKENING. Atonement as Activism. Speaks Out—New Discourses (2021) “You’re taught that on race issues you are morally obliged to suspend your Shakespeare Wasn’t Woke —Persuasion usual standards of logic. Faced with a (2021) choice between some benign mendacity California Is Cleansing Jews From History and being mauled, few human beings —Tablet Magazine (2021) choose the latter.” Schools Must Resist Destructive Anti-racist Bo Winegard: The Preachers of the Great Demands—The Atlantic (2021) Awokening General Counter Wokecraft (woke- James Lindsay: Postmodern Religion and dissident.github.io) (2021) the Faith of Social Justice The Rise, Fall, and Renaissance of BJ Campbell: Social Justice is a Classical Liberalism | Libertarianism.org Crowdsourced Religion; he mostly summarizes…. America’s cultural revolution is just like Mao’s —UnHerd (2021) Grievance Studies Team: Boghossian, Lindsay, Pluckrose: See this video: HOW SOCIAL JUSTICE WENT FROM Is Intersectionality a Religion? BEING A MOVEMENT TO A RELIGION: Heretical = Problematic; IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER Blasphemy = Not Politically Correct; Original Sin = Privilege; Church = Safe Stanley Kurtz: The Church of the Lef Space; Born Again = Woke John McWhorter: Antiracism, Our Andrew Sullivan: Flawed New Religion America’s New Religions Jon Haidt, lecture at Duke: Why Universities Must Choose One Telos: Truth or Social Justice Andrew Sullivan: Is Intersectionality a Religion?
V1.0 50421 John McWhorter, 2018, Atlantic: Titus Techera: What Lies Beneath the The Virtue Signalers Wokeness. In Law and Liberty Won’t Change the World Joshua Mitchell: THE SPIRITUAL QUEST Toby Young: The Great Awokening OF IDENTITY POLITICS. podcast. See “What’s distinctive about members of the his book: American Awakening: Identity social justice lef is not that they don’t Politics and Other Afictions of Our believe in magic — they clearly do — but Time. that the supernatural forces that govern Michael Lind: their universe are all malevolent. Theirs is a The Revenge of the religion beref of a divine being.” Yankees: How Social Gospel became Social Justice Samuel James: We’re All John McWhorter: Fundamentalists Now The Neoracists —Persuasion (2021) Megan McArdle: Meet Your New Woke Inquisitors, Same as the Old Ones WHY THE CURRENT TRENDS Paul Hollander: “There is at last the IN DIVERSITY TRAINING phenomenon of identity politics. . . . MISS THE MARK Identity politics assumes that some basic attribute such as race, sex, ethnicity, or The Problem(s) With Diversity-Related sexual preference is the single determinant Training - Musa al-Gharbi and source of one’s true identity and all political interests. . . .‘In efect, identity A PUSHBACK AGAINST IDENTITY politics has come to serve as a substitute POLITICS FROM ACADEMICS AND for religion.’” INTELLECTUALS WHO ARE NON- (p. liv, citing Christopher Lasch) WHITE Prescient is his 1998 introduction to the 4th edition of Political Pilgrims: Travels Anthony Appiah, Book: The Lies that Bind: of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Rethinking Identity Politics. See his Union, China, and Cuba 1928–1979. essay in the NYT: Speaking As A, John Judis, 2005: The Chosen Nation: Amy Chua, Book: Political Tribes; See her The Infuence of Religion on U.S. essay in The Guardian, How America’s Foreign Policy Identity Politics Went From Inclusion to Division. Antonia Senior, 2020: Identity Politics is Christianity Without Redemption Frances Fukuyama, Book: Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics Molly McGrath, 2020: Sacrifcial Politics or Resentment; See his essay against and Sacred Victims identity politics, in Foreign Afairs, and Eric Kaufmann, 2020: Liberal Funda– here, in AI, on Huntington mentalism: A Sociology of Wokeness. Jason Hill, Book: We have overcome. See Interview at Spiked
V1.0 50421 Jonathan Rauch: Review of Chua Coleman Hughes: Many columns Survival Math: Notes on an All-American at Quillette, including this on Family: Jackson, Mitchell intersesctionality The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays: Glenn Loury Yang, Wesley Irshad Manji: Don’t Label Me. FILMS John McWhorter: Builds on Rorty, in The Atlantic: Are Campus Activists Too Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & Dogmatic? See also Antiracism, Our America | Prime Video (amazon.com) Flawed New Religion. What Killed Michael Brown?, Written by Eboo Patel: Essays on identity Shelby Steele, Directed by Eli Steele John Wood: The Spectrum of Black (https://whatkilledmichaelbrown.com/) Contrarianism How Jack Became Black, by Eli Steele Zachary Wood, Book: Uncensored: My Life and Uncomfortable Conversations at the Intersection of Black and White America Ayan Hirsi Ali Kahlil Bird
PERSPECTIVES ON RACE IN AMERICA
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life: Fields, Karen E., Fields, Barbara J The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition]: Wright, Richard, Wright, Malcolm, Wideman, John Edgar Felon: Poems: Betts, Reginald Dwayne Shadow and Act: Ellison, Ralph Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File: Wideman, John Edgar
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