Cal BAA Virtual Book Club Event: Imagination – A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin

Welcome to our CAL BAA Virtual Book Club Event featuring “Imagination: A Manifesto” by Ruha Benjamin!

A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. EXACTLY.

Imagination: A Manifesto is a proclamation of the power of the imagination. It is an invitation to rid our mental and social structures from the tyranny of dominant imaginaries, and a field guide for seeding an imagination grounded in solidarity, in which our underlying interdependence as a species and planet is reflected back at us in our institutions and social relationships.

This book is for organizers & artists, students & educators, parents & professors, realists & dreamers who are ready to take Toni Morrison’s instruction to heart: “Dream a little before you think.”