麻豆影视

Racial Justice Commitment Activities

Campus Wide Book Series

Each year, 麻豆影视 engages in a year-long, campus-wide book read as part of its ongoing commitment to creating a racially just campus climate and to providing meaningful opportunities for dialogue, reflection, and engagement across the college community and within the broader communities the college serves. This sustained effort embodies the values expressed in MiraCosta鈥檚 Commitment Statement, which emphasizes institutional responsibility for closing equity gaps and ensuring that individuals from all backgrounds are welcomed, nurtured, and validated. The IDEA Advisory, made up of students, staff, faculty and administrators from across the district, gathers recommendations from the campus community for annual book reads each spring semester and selects the book in summer for the following academic year.

2026-2027 Selected Read

Racial Exhaustion: How to Move Through Racism in the Wake of DEI by Ralina L. Joseph

In Racial Exhaustion: How to Move Through Racism in the Wake of DEI, author and scholar Ralina L. Joseph explores the fatigue, frustration, and uncertainty that can accompany conversations about race and racism, and offers a path toward continuing those conversations in meaningful and productive ways. Drawing on personal narrative, critical race scholarship, and real-world dialogue, Joseph examines how racial exhaustion can affect people differently while challenging readers to resist disengagement. Through practices such as radical listening, sitting with discomfort, radical speaking, and reparative dialogue, the book offers practical approaches for communicating across differences, navigating difficult moments, and strengthening our capacity to remain engaged with one another. Racial Exhaustion invites our campus community to approach conversations about race with curiosity, honesty, courage, and a willingness to listen and learn, creating opportunities for deeper understanding, connection, and meaningful change.

Below are other options to obtain copies for all MiraCosta District employees:

The Community Learning Center in the Instructional Services building (with Dean John Makevich or Lisa Tisdale) or in the Building 300 staffroom (with Mitra De Souza)
The Oceanside (Barnard Dr.) Campus Administration Building Room 1038 in the Office of IDEA
The Student Services and Administration Building at the San Elijo Campus (with Lauren Halsted or Daria Davis) or in the 1125 mail room
The Technology Career Institute in the front office (with Tom Tubon)
Have a book mailed to you via Intercampus Mail or to your home via United States Postal Service Mail by filling out the
Access an ebook version through the
Submit a request to access the audio book as an accommodation

Previous Campus-Wide Book Reads

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas (2025-2026)
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by Ruha Benjamin (2024-2025)
We Want to Do More than Survive by Dr. Bettina L. Love (2023-2024)
We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders by Linda Sarsour (2023-2024)
A Dream Called Home by Reyna Grande (Summer 2023)
Becoming Hispanic-Serving Institutions by Gina Ann Garcia (2022-2023)
From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education by Tia Brown McNair, Estela Mara Bensimon, and Lindsey Malcom-Piqueux (2021-2022)
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Olou (2020-2021)
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (2020-2021)