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Center for Inclusion and Diversity (CID) Presenter - Dr. Jeremiah Sims: Recommended Books

This guide was created in conjunction with the Center for Inclusion and Diversity, who hosted Dr. Jeremiah Sims at SCC on 2/26/24 for the presentation, "Reclaiming the Radical Legacy of Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr."

Dr. Jeremiah Sims Presentation - Recommended Resources

Book Recommendations from Dr. Sims

  • Revolutionary STEM Education: Critical-Reality Pedagogy and Social Justice in STEM for Black Males by Jeremiah J. Sims

  • Minding the Obligation Gap in Community Colleges and Beyond: Theory and Practice in Achieving Educational Equity by Jeremiah J. Sims, et al.

  • The White Educator’s Guide to Equity: Teaching for Justice in Community Colleges by Jeramy Wallace and Jeremiah J. Sims

  • The Realest I Ever Wrote: One Black Man’s Story of Radical Love, Radical Vulnerability, and Radical Healing by Jeremiah J. Sims (forthcoming)

  • The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto by Charles M. Blow

  • The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee (Library Link)

  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Library Link)

  • A Theology for the Social Gospel by Walter Rauschenbusch

  • The Radical King by Cornel West

  • The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Peniel e. Joseph

  • The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves by Shawn A. Ginwright

  • Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman

  • Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development by Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman

  • Unearthing Joy: A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Curriculum and Instruction by Gholdy Muhammad

Additional Recommendations from Dr. Sims

  • “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – “It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself up by his own bootstraps.”

  • Experience and Education by John Dewey

  • “My dream has turned into a nightmare” NBC Interview with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • Sister Outsider by Audre Lord, specifically “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action” (Library Link)

  • Malcolm X and James Baldwin debate on September 5, 1963 (Audio)

  • American Fiction, a film based on Erasure by Percival Everett

Additional Recommendations on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin

Compiled by Priya Osborne, Director of Student Success, Diversity, and Equity

  • Where Do We Go From Here by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Library Link)

  • Why We Can't Wait by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Library Link)

  • The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (Library Link)

  • I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin 

  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X (Library Link)

  • Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary by Malcolm X 

  • The Three Mothers by Anna Malaika Tubbs (Library Link)

Note: the lists of recommendations was compiled by Priya Osborne and Ben Divis, February 2024.