New Books by BC Faculty Series: Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities

Join Gabe Dunn, bestselling author, actor, and filmmaker, and host of the podcast “Bad With Money,” and Professor Celina Su, Department of Political Science, for a conversation on racial capitalism, coalition building, and her book recent book, Budget Justice.

Drawing on her years of engagement with democratic governance in New York City and around the globe, Su proposes in her book a new kind of democracy, in which city residents make collective decisions about public needs through processes like participatory budgeting, and in which they work across racial divides and segregated spaces as neighbors rather than as consumers or members of voting blocs. Essential reading to empower citizens, Budget Justice explains why public budgets reflect a crisis not so much in accounting as in democracy, and enables everyone, especially those from historically marginalized communities, to imagine and enact people’s budgets and policies—from universal preschool to affordable housing—that will enable their communities to thrive.

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