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Argentina/Uruguay
Books:
The Open Veins of Latin America - Eduardo Galeano
Imperialism, Neoliberalism, and Social Struggles in Latin America - Richard Dello Buono and José Bell Lara
Sin PatrĂłn - lavaca collective
De Colores Means All of Us - Elizabeth MartĂnez
How Coffee Saved My Life: And Other Stories of Stumbling to Grace - Ellie Roscher
Motorcycle Diaries - Che Guevara
My Name is Light - Elsa Osorio
In the Company of the Poor - Paul Farmer
Departing at Dawn - Gloria Lise
Cantoras - Carolina de Robertis
And the Money Kept Rolling In - Paul Blustein
The Invisible Mountain - Carolina de Robertis
The Purple Land - William Henry Hudson
Labor Conflict and Capitalist Hegemony in Argentina - Agustin Santella
Crisis and Contradiction - Susan Spronk and Jeffrey Webber
Workers' Self-Management in Argentina - Marcelo Vieta
Co-Operative Struggles - Denis Kasparian
Struggle Makes Us Human - Vijay Prashad
Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age - Colin Barker, Gareth Dale, and Neil Davidson
Passion of the People? Football in South America - Tony Mason
They Can't represent Us! - Marina Sitrin & Dario Azzellini
Contours of Descent - Robert Pollin
Jorge Luis Borges: A Writer on the Edge - Beatriz Sarlo
Che Wants to See You: The Untold Story of Che Guevara - Ciro Bustos
In the Shadow of the State - Nicola Miller
Radical Cities - Justin McGuirk
Feminist International - VerĂłnica Gago
Artificial Hells - Claire Bishop
Argentina: The Malvinas and the End of Military Rule - Alejandro Dabat and Luis Lorenzano
Articles/Other Reading:
Songs:
Me Gritaron Negra song by Victoria Santa Cruz
Videos:
La Granja de Zenón (YouTube channel with Argentine children's songs)
Fe en la Resistencia – Uruguayan documentary, 2018, role of church in the dictatorship
Movies:
Argentina, 1985 (2022) - Available on Prime
Our Disappeared / Nuestros Desparecidos - Available on Vimeo
Podcasts:
Rock & Dios Podcast Podcast by the IELU in Spotify
Argentina: Life with hyperinflation - The Documentary: BBC News World Service
Argentalk: Learn Argentine Spanish in context
Central Europe
Of note: We refer to the Roma people as Roma or Romani, as 'gypsy' is considered a derogatory slur in many languages and contexts around the world. We have included books that may or may not follow the same pattern of thinking as many Romani people refer to themselves as such in a form of reclamation.
Books
Skylark - Dezső Kosztolányi
The Bridge at Andau - James Michener
Bury Me Standing - Isabel Fonseca
Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, and Friends - Lonnie Johnson
We are the Romani People - Ian Hancock
Fatelessness - Imre Kertész
Prague - Arthur Phillips
Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories - Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth
Cinderella Goes to Market - Barbara Einhorn
Bodies Under Siege - Sian Norris
Gypsies: The Hidden Americans - Anne Sutherland
The Gypsy 'Menace': Populism and the New Anti-Gypsy Politics - Michael Stewart
New Soviet Gypsies - Brigid O'Keefe
Romani Routes - Carol Silvermann
Exploring Gypsiness - Ada Engebrigsten
From the Vanguard to the Margins: Workers in Hungary, 1939 to Present - Mark Pittaway
Confronting Reification - Gregory Smulewicz-Sucker
The Russian Revolution - Otto Bauer
The Hollow Girl - Hillary Monahan
Media:
Fateless
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
An American Rhapsody
Music Box
Kontroll
Sunshine
Time Stands Still
Other:
Rachel & Zach blog posts (former country coordinators)
LGBTIQ Roma and queer intersectionalities: the lived experiences of LGBTIQ Roma
Jerusalem & the West Bank
Books:
Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique - Sa'ed Atshan
The Lemon Tree - Sandy Tolan
Faith in the Face of Empire - Mitri Raheb
Mornings in Jenin - Susan Abulhawa
After the Last Sky - Edward Said
Stone Men - Andrew Ross
Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Angela Davis
Once Upon a Country - Sari Nusseibeh
Religion and Empire - RA Horsley
I Am a Palestinian Christian - Mitri Raheb
The First Advent in Palestine: Reversals, Resistance, and the Ongoing Complexity of Hope - Kelley Nikondeha
Religion and Empire - Richard Horsley
On Palestine - Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé
The Struggle for Palestine - Lance Selfa
Before the Next Bomb - Remi Kanazi
Rifqa - Mohammed el-Kurd
False Prophets of Peace - Tivka Honig-Parnass
On Anti-Semitism - Jewish Voice for Peace
Gaza in Crisis - Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé
Apartheid Israel - Jon Soske and Sean Jacobs
Boycott Divestment Sanctions - Omar Barghouti
Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward Said - David Barsamian
The Battle for Justice in Palestine - Ali Abunimah
The Invention of the Land of Israel - Schlomo Sand
Ten Myths About Israel - Ilan Pappé
Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation - Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke
Twilight of History - Schlomo Sand
Israel and Palestine - Avi Shlaim
The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust: A Memoir - Noam Chayut
Blaming the Victims - Edward Said and Christopher Hitchens
The Balfour Declaration - Bernard Regan
Return: A Palestinian Memoir - Ghada Karmi
Erasing Palestine - Rebecca Ruth Gould
Israel-Palestine on Record: How the New York Times Misreports Conflict in the Middle East
A Child in Palestine - Naji al-Ali
Shell-Shocked - Mohammed Omer
The Other Side of the Wall: A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope - Munther Isaac
Our Shared Witness by Munib Younan
Witnessing for Peace by Munib Younan
ELCA Resources
Advent Pilgrimage in Palestine - Advent series in collaboration with ELCA Young Adults
Background on the Strategy for Engagement in Israel and Palestine
Media
Ghost Hunting (2017)
Divine Intervention (2002)
A Drowning Man (2017)
5 Broken Cameras (2011)
Budrus (2010)
Israel vs. Israel (2010)
The Israeli Lobby (2007)
Life in Occupied Palestine (2009)
With God on Our Side (2010)
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)
Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019)
Noura Erakat on Black-Palestinian Solidarity and Palestine as a Progressive Issue
Other
Mexico
Books:
The Devil’s Highway - Luis Alberto Urrea
Enrique’s Journey - Sonia Nazario
Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move - Reece Jones
The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver
We Built the Wall: How the US Keeps Out Asylum Seekers from Mexico, Central America and Beyond - Eileen Truax
Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal - Aviva Chomsky
Separated: Inside an American Tragedy - Jacob Soboroff
The God Who Sees - Karen Gonzalez
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen - Jose Antonio Vargas
The Land of Open Graves - Jason De Leon
Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
The Hummingbird’s Daughter - Luis Alberto Urrea
The Labyrinth of Solitude - Octavio Paz
Mexico: Biography of Power - Enrique Krauze
The Fire & The Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement - Gloria Muñoz Ramirez
Media:
The Book of Life (2014)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
Frida (2002)
Roma (2018)
Ingobernable (Netflix series)
Podcasts:
Behind the Bastards: The Complete, Insane History of American Border Militias
Behind the Bastards: The U.S. Border Patrol is A Nightmare That Never Ends
Senegal
Books
African Friends and Money Matters -Â David Maranz (West Africa)
Extracting Profit - Lee Wengraf
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney
Fisherman's Blues - Anna Badkhen
God's Bits of Wood - Ousmane Sembène (Senegal)Â
So Long a Letter - Mariama Bâ (Senegal)
Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi (Ghana)
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)
We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)
Under the Udala Trees - Chinelo Okparanta (Nigeria)
Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
African and Caribbean Politics: From Kwame Nkruamah to Maurice Bishop - Manning Marable
Class Struggle and Resistance in Africa - Leo Zeilig
At Night All Blood is Black - David Diop (Senegal)
Your Pocket is What Cures You: The Politics of Health in Senegal - Ellen Foley (Senegal)
Women at the Crossroads - M. Lewis Renaud (Senegal)
The Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman - Ken Bugul (Senegal)
Peace is Everything: World view of Muslims in the Senegambia - David Maranz (Senegal/Gambia)
Learning to See: And Other Stories and Memoirs from Senegal (Gary Engelberg)
Media:
Music
Baaba Maal
Youssou N'Dour
Wally Seck
Akon
Viviane Chidid
Podcasts
Joko hosted by Arame Niang and Aida Guisse
United Kingdom
Books:
The Heart of Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain - Beverly Bryan, Stella Dadzie, et al.
Hostile Environment - Maya Goodfellow
The New Enclosure - Brett Christophers
Dreams of Leaving and Remaining - James Meek
Deport, Deprive, Extradite - Nisha Kapoor
Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing - John Boughton
Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent - Priyamvada Gopal
The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain - Ron Ramdin
To Govern the Globe - Alfred W. McCoy
Black and British: A Forgotten History - David Olusoga
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India - Shashi Tharoor
Britain BC - Francis Pryor
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine - Gail Honeyman
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
A History of Britain - Simon Schama
Britain and the Sea - Glen O'Hara
Lost Lives - David McKittrick
Making Sense of the Troubles - David McKittrick and David McVea
Pauperland: A Short History of Poverty in Britain - Jeremy Seabrook
Reform, Revolution, and Direct Action amongst British Miners - Martyn Ives
The New Left: National Identity and the Break-Up of Britain - Wade Matthews
Rentier Capitalism - Brett Christophers
Falling Down - Phil Burton-Cartledge
The Break-Up of Britain - Tom Nairn
A New Labour Nightmare - Andrew Murray
The Muslims Are Coming - Arun Kundnani
Dispatches from the Dark Side - Gareth Peirce
Not One More Death - Brain Eno et al
Making the Revolution Global - Theo Williams
We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire - Ian Sanjay Patel
Imperial Intimacies - Hazel V. Carby
The Fall and Rise of the British Left - Andrew Murray
Dreamers of a New Day - Sheila Rowbotham
Off the Rails - Andrew Murray
United Queerdom - Dan Glass
Good As You - From Prejudice to Pride: 30 Years of Gay Britain - Paul Flynn
Podcasts:
Behind the Bastards: That Time Britain Did a Genocide in Ireland
On the frontline of Brexit - BBC News
Media:
The British Museum is full of stolen artifacts
The British Empire: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Details of The World's Largest Empire
Rise and Fall of the British Empire Documentary