Resources
Other Things to Read!
Below are some resources recommended by folks in the New City community. Enjoy!
*The leadership team of New City hasn't read ever single page and every single word of each of these resources, so we can't say we 100% endorse everything expressed here. Still, great food for thought!
Faith
- Claiborne, Shane (app): Book of Common Prayer (for Ordinary Radicals)
- Lots of great videos on faith at The Work of the People
Environmental Justice
- Checker, Melissa (article): Environmental Gentrification and the Paradoxical Politics of Urban Sustainability
- Checker, Melissa (book): Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town
- Embrey, Monica Marika (video): Why Environmentalists Must Embrace Social Justice
- Holmes, Seth (book): Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
- Walley, Christine J. (book): Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park
Gentrification
- Moskowitz, Peter (book): How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
- Desmond, Martin (book): Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City