Our book club selection for February 2024 is Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by Ruha Benjamin. The book is a clarion call for individual responsibility in the face of rampant injustice. Part memoir and part manifesto, it was inspired by Benjamin’s revelations during the COVID-19 pandemic and the BLM movement; it followed years of groundbreaking research on social justice, race and technology that centered large-scale structural change. Viral Justice argues for a shift toward making everyday, small-scale choices that would inevitably add up to major progress once enacted en masse. The author is also a sociologist and professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, mainly focusing on the relationship between innovation and equity.
We will discuss Viral Justice by Ruha Benjamin on Wednesday, February 28th. You can find out who our guest will be by listening to our February 7th episode. If you’d like even more discussion around the book, consider joining The Stacks Pack on Patreon and participating in The Stacks’ monthly virtual book club.
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