Living Toward Justice: A Time Capsule

Edited by Sonya E. Pritzker

An illustrated exploration of how practitioners and scholars in the field of embodied social justice (ESJ) seek to incorporate justice in everyday life

See Me: Prison Theater Workshops and Love

By Jan Cohen-Cruz

Encounters, transformations, and reflections from in-prison and post-release theater workshops, each essay is a collaboration between two or three people who connected profoundly in the temporary community that a workshop can create.

Making a Way Out of No Way: Lives of Labor, Love, and Resistance

By Meredith M. Taylor
Foreword by Dr. Rex M. Ellis

A richly imagined, photo illustrated narrative of 150 years of life in slavery on tobacco plantations in Southern Maryland. The work is a poetic interwoven collage of scenes and community of characters that reflect the diversity of experience, “silences,” and incompleteness of the historical record.

That’s a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and Poetry by Artists Teaching in Carceral Institutions

Edited by Leigh Sugar

Poetry and prose by artists, writers, and activists who’ve taught workshops in U.S. criminal legal institutions, this is a book for anyone seeking to understand the prison industrial complex from a human perspective. 

All author royalties from this book will be donated to Dances for Solidarity, a project that brings arts opportunities to people incarcerated in solitary confinement.

Zoned Out! Race Displacement, and City Planning in New York City, (Revised Edition)

Edited by Tom Angotti and Sylvia Morse

Zoned Out! shows how gentrification and displacement of low-income communities of color have occurred in Williamsburg, Harlem and Chinatown, neighborhoods facing massive displacement of people of color, and looks at ways the city can address inequalities, promote authentic community-based planning and develop housing in the public domain.

Portraits of Racial Justice: Americans Who Tell the Truth

By Robert Shetterly

The first volume of Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series, Portraits of Racial Justice takes a multimedia, interdisciplinary approach, blending art and history with today’s issues concerning social, environmental, and economic fairness. Shetterly’s paintings, as well as profiles of those portrayed, illuminate a community of people not only willing to recognize the shortcomings of America’s history, but most importantly, individuals who offer their visions of a better world moving forward.

Main Street: How a City’s Heart Connects Us All

By Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD

How do Main Streets contribute to our mental health? This intriguing question took social psychiatrist Mindy Thompson Fullilove on an 11-year search through 178 cities in 14 countries. From these visits Fullilove has discerned the larger architecture of Main Streets: the ways that Main Streets are shaped for a vast array of social gatherings and processes, how they are a marker for the integrity of civilization—and the marks aren’t always good. 

Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride

By Nadina LaSpina

A disability rights activist tells the story of her liberation from oppressive standards of normalcy, showing that freedom comes not through cure, but through organizing to end exclusion from public and social life. 

The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race

By Carl C. Anthony

Carl Anthony interweaves urban history, racial justice, and cosmology with personal experiences as an architect/planner, environmentalist, and Black American.  By connecting the struggles for social and racial justice to the universe, it creates a new story for our time.

Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It

By Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD
Foreword by Carlos F. Peterson and Mary Travis Bassett

Root Shock examines three different US cities to unmask the crippling results of decades-old disinvestment in communities of color and the urban renewal practices that ultimately destroyed these neighborhoods for the advantage of developers and the elite.

American Tensions: Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice

Edited by William Reichard
Foreword by Ted Kooser
with contributions by Elizabeth Alexander, Linda Hogan, and Sherman Alexie

This new anthology of contemporary American poetry, short fiction and nonfiction, explores issues of identity, oppression, injustice, and social change.

By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives

By Judith Tannenbaum and Spoon Jackson

A two-person memoir that explores education, prison, possibility, and which children our world nurtures and which it shuns. At the book’s core are two stories that speak up for human imagination, spirit, and the power of art.

Doing Time in the Garden: Life Lessons through Prison Horticulture

By James Jiler

Inspiring firsthand account of how in-prison vocational training programs at Riker’s Island Jail lead to meaningful post-release employment and reduce recidivism—the Green House and GreenTeam run by James Jiler for the Horticultural Society of New York.