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OUR CITY ACTION BUFFALO

What's on our bookshelf?

OCAB loves books

We are forever indebted to the thinkers and dreamers who light the way and inspire us to think more expansively about what the world we want to create might look like. Below, some of our favorites, which we will keep adding to. Please feel free to suggest yours!

City of Distant Neighbors

The Proliferation & Entrenchment of Residential Segregation in Buffalo, New York (1934 to 1961)

James J. Coughlin

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

Emergent Strategy

Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Adrienne Maree Brown

Race for Profit

How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Power Concedes Nothing

How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections

Edited by Linda Burnham, Max Elbaum, Maria Poblet

The Color of Law

A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

The Purpose of Power

How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

Alicia Garza Lee

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