The following are books that WCC students plan to read this summer:
by Michelle Alexander
This insightful and well researched book sheds light on mass incarceration as a form of new systemic racialized violence. “It’s been on my shelf for a while and I finally have time to read it.”
by 50 Cent and Kris Ex
Exploring the man behind the music “From Pieces to Weight” chronicles the rapper’s rise to fame growing up in Southside Queens, NY.
~ Marquise Thomas | general studies
by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
A seminal philosophical text, “The Phenomenology of Spirit” continues on Kant’s ideas on skepticism and instead encourages idealism and self-realization.
by T. E. Lawrence
A novel, set in world war I, which explores the different campaigns against the Turks in the Middle East.
~ Joe Longo, philosophy
by Yuval Noah Harari
This Summer reading pick from former President Barack Obama, combines biology and history to give the reader a comprehensive understanding on what it means to be “human.”
~ Danielle Westman, nursing
by Dennis Showalter
“The book details a battle in world war I that isn’t often talked about. “I have time this summer to read it.”
~ Joshua Edinger, physics and pre-engineering
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