This below selection of books comes from our onsite reference library, YoU Study, and features titles selected by the YoU cohort. They have been organized along the five YoU themes: Care, Repair, Play, Justice, and the Future.

Care

To care is to attach importance to something, or someone. It is the act of investing serious attention, empathy, and consideration into the well-being and sustainability of an object, action, person, environment or community.

500 Years of Indigenous Resistance by Gord Hill
Selected by Julian Louis Phillips

BedZine by Tash King
Selected by Shannon Finnegan  

Behind the Dance by Jeremy Dennis
Selected by Tecumseh Ceaser 

Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts by Christopher K. Ho and Daisy Nam
Selected by Naeem Mohaiemen

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Selected by Tecumseh Ceaser 

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Selected by Shannon Finnegan 

Critical Aesthetic Pedagogy by Yolanda Medina
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren  

Cyberspaces of Everyday Life – Electronic Mediations by Mark Nunes
Selected by Gabo Camnitzer

Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Marie Brown
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren   

Hacia una Pedagogía Institucional by Aida Vásquez and Fernand Oury 
Selected by Gabo Camnitzer

How to Read the Constitution and Why by Kim Wehle
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren   

Tar Beach by Susan Meiselas
Selected by Naeem Mohaiemen

The Good Immigrant Ed. by Nikesh Shukla
Selected by Utsa Hazarika 

The Noma Guide to Fermentation by Rene Redzepi and David Zilber
Selected by Mo Kong

The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems by Agha Shahid Ali
Selected by Utsa Hazarika

Técnicas Freinet de la escuela moderna by Célestin Freinet
Selected by Gabo Camnitzer

Migrants by Issa Watanabe, selected by BordeAndoPlease, Mr. Panda (Por favor, Sr. Panda) by Steve Anthony
Selected by BordeAndo

Repair

To repair is to fix or mend a person or something which has become damaged, broken, or wronged. It is to restore and rebuild the subject in order to strengthen it beyond its injury.

500 Years of Indigenous Resistance by Gord Hill
Selected by Julian Louis Phillips 

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren  

Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis
Selected by Julian Louis Phillips 

Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts by Christopher K. Ho and Daisy Nam
Selected by Naeem Mohaiemen 

Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson
Selected by Julian Louis Phillips  

Black Skin White Mask by Frantz Fanon
Selected by Julian Louis Phillips  

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Selected by Tecumseh Ceaser 

Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang
Selected by Julian Louis Phillips  

Class War: The Privatization of Childhood by Megan Erickson
Selected by Gabo Camniter

Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance by Edgar Villanueva
Selected by Tecumseh Ceaser

Household Workers Unite by Premilla Nasden
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren 

Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons by Silvia Federici
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren   

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren  

The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation by Stuart Hall
Selected by Utsa Hazarika  

The Long Island Indians and their New England Ancestors: Narragansett, Mohegan, Pequot & Wampanoag Tribes by Donna Barron
Selected by Tecumseh Ceaser

The Good Immigrant Ed. by Nikesh Shukla
Selected by Utsa Hazarika

The Second by Carol Anderson
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren   

The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems by Agha Shahid Ali
Selected by Utsa Hazarika

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Selected by Julian Louis Phillips 

When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics by Trinh T. Minh-ha
Selected by Utsa Hazarika 

Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren 

México Bordado, De la tradición a punto contemporáneo by Gimena Romero
Selected by BordeAndo

Am I Blue or Am I Green? / Azul o Verde. ¿Cuál soy yo? by Beatrice Zamora (Author), Bernice Badillo (Illustrator),
Selected by BordeAndo

Play

Play describes activities that serve an entertaining or recreational purpose. To play also implies the employment of one’s imagination and creative thinking in order to develop new possibilities and alternative solutions.

Behind the Dance by Jeremy Dennis
Selected by Tecumseh Ceaser

Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture by Anaïs Duplan
Selected by Julian Louis Phillips  

Burn It Down! Ed. by Breanne Fahs
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren    

Critical Aesthetic Pedagogy by Yolanda Medina
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren   

El Texto Libre by Célestin Freinet
Selected by Gabo Camnitzer 

Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Marie Brown
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren    

Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect by Romi Crawford
Selected by Naeem Mohaiemen 

The Noma Guide to Fermentation by Rene Redzepi and David Zilber
Selected by Mo Kong 

We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kamba
Selected by Julian Louis Phillips

México Bordado, De la tradición a punto contemporáneo by Gimena Romero
Selected by BordeAndo


Justice

Justice happens when everyone receives and seeks what they deserve as forms of restoration, rehabilitation, and healing. It is a code of ethics that aims to maintain equity and balance among the relationships and exchanges that exist between people, places, and things.

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren 

Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren 

BedZine by Tash King
Selected by Shannon Finnegan

Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson
Selected by Julian Louis Phillips

Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang
Selected by Julian Louis Phillips 

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Selected by Shannon Finnegan 

Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance by Edgar Villanueva
Selected by Tecumseh Ceaser

Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren 

Household Workers Unite by Premilla Nasden
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren 

One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren  

Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons by Silvia Federici
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren  

Skin, Tooth, and Bone: Disability Justice Primer by Sins Invalid
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren  

Environmentalism of the Poor by Rob Nixon
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren  

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren  

The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures) by Stuart Hall
Selected by Utsa Hazarika

The Long Island Indians and their New England Ancestors: Narragansett, Mohegan, Pequot & Wampanoag Tribes by Donna Barron
Selected by Tecumseh Ceaser   

The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House by Audre Lorde
Selected by Julian Louis Phillips 

The Second by Carol Anderson
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren   

We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kamba
selected by Julian Louis Phillips 

Migrants by Issa Watanabe
Selected by BordeAndo

México Bordado, De la tradición a punto contemporáneo by Gimena Romero
Selected by BordeAndo

Am I Blue or Am I Green? / Azul o Verde. ¿Cuál soy yo? by Beatrice Zamora (Author), Bernice Badillo (Illustrator)
Selected by BordeAndo

The Future

The Future describes a later time that takes place in the mysteries of what comes next, and that simultaneously responds to and builds upon the orders of the past and present moments.

Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture by Anaïs Duplan
Selected by Julian Louis Phillips

Burn It Down! Ed. by Breanne Fahs
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren  

Class War: The Privatization of Childhood by Megan Erickson
Selected by Gabo Camnitzer

Cyberspaces of Everyday Life – Electronic Mediations by Mark Nunes
Selected by Gabo Camnitzer

El Texto Libre by Célestin Freinet
Selected by Gabo Camnitzer 

Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect by Romi Crawford
Selected by Naeem Mohaiemen

Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren

Hacia una Pedagogía Institucional by Aida Vásquez and Fernand Oury
Selected by Gabo Camnitzer

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Selected by Mo Kong 

Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
Selected by Mo Kong 

Skin, Tooth, and Bone: Disability Justice Primer by Sins Invalid
Selected by Shannon Finnegan

Slow Violence and Environmentalism of the Poor by Rob Nixon
Selected by Alex Strada & Tali Keren 

Técnicas Freinet de la escuela moderna by Célestin Freinet
Selected by Gabo Camnitzer

Cuentos Para Entender el Mundo by Eloy Moreno
Selected by BordeAndo