Previous Common Texts

2022

• Know My Name (2019)
  Chanel Miller

2021

• Dear America Notes of an Undocumented Citizen (2019)
  Jose Antonio Vargas

2020 

• Allegories on Race and Racism
  Camara Jones
• “Is ‘Race Science’ Making a Comeback?”
  Angela Saini
• “Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat and Higher Ed.”
  Russell McClain
• "What Is Owed."
  Nikole Hannah-Jones
• “Racism, the Immigration Enforcement Regime, and the Implications for Racial Inequality in the Lives of Undocumented Young Adults.”
  Elizabeth Aranda and Elizabeth Vaquera
• “The Police Killings No One Is Talking About.”
  Stephanie Woodard
• “The Model Minority Trap.”
  Viet Thanh Nguyen
• “Facing Racism.”
  Anna Purna Kambhampaty, Sangsuk Sylvia Kang, and Haruka Sakaguchi
• “Examining Racial Disparities Observed During Coronavirus Pandemic.”
  Rachel Martin
• “This Is What an Antiracist America Would Look Like. How Do We Get There?”
  Ibram X. Kendi
• Racism, Immigration and Ally-ship
  Jose Antonio Vargas interview with Karen Hunter and Drew McCaskill

2019

• So You Want to Talk About Race (2018)
  Ijeoma Oluo

2018

• Tulalip, from My Heart: An Autobiographical Account of a Reservation Community (2013)
  Harriette Shelton Dover

2017

• Notes from No Man's Land (2009)
  Eula Biss

2016

• Kindred (1979)
  Octavia Butler

2015

• The Lathe of Heaven (1971)
  Ursula K. Le Guin

2014

• Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (2011)
  Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo

2013

• The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (2010)
  Nicholas Carr

2012

• World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse (2011)
  Lester Russell Brown

2011

• Country Driving (2010)
  Peter Hessler

2010

• Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America (2008)
  Paul Tough

2009

• The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (2008)
  Pico Iyer

2008

• Crossing Into America (2005)
  Louis Mendoza and S. Shankar