4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Hebrew shepherd-prophet from Tekoa who was the first of the 'writing prophets' — whose book of oracles attacks the social injustice of the Northern Kingdom (exploitation of the poor, luxury amid poverty, hollow ritual) and predicts the Assyrian destruction as divine punishment.
Victor Hugo's 1862 novel following Jean Valjean's redemption and Inspector Javert's rigid legalism through the upheavals of post-Napoleonic France — one of the most widely read novels in the world — a sustained meditation on justice, mercy, social inequality, and redemption.
Kenneth Jones is an American anti-racism educator and organizational consultant who co-authored Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups with Tema Okun. The workbook identifies characteristics of white supremacy culture in organizations and provides frameworks for dismantling them.
Tema Okun is an American anti-racism educator and consultant best known for articulating the 'white supremacy culture' framework in the Dismantling Racism Workbook (co-authored with Kenneth Jones), which lists organizational habits such as perfectionism, urgency, and quantity over quality as manifestations of white supremacy culture.