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.

2025-2026 Selected Read

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas

Dear America is a memoir and a personal call to arms by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, who details his experience as an undocumented immigrant from the Philippines who, at age 12, came to the U.S. and lived in secret for years, hiding his true status to build a successful career. The book explores the deep psychological toll of living in fear, the forced nature of "passing" as an American, and the fundamental human experience of not having a true home. By sharing his deeply personal story, Vargas challenges the definition of what it means to be an American and advocates for the human rights of immigrants.

Below are other options to obtain copies of the 2025-26 campus wide books reads. All MiraCosta District employees may visit:

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 1024 in the Office of IDEA
The Student Services and Administration Building at the San Elijo Campus (with Dean Al Taccone or Susan Corely) 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 ebook or audiobook versions through the .

Start your Own Book Club!

The IDEA Advisory invites members of the campus community to host a book club reading within their department or among colleagues. These gatherings offer an opportunity to reflect on how the selected text deepens our understanding of race, identity, immigration, and systemic inequities, and to explore how these themes connect to our work at MiraCosta. Sign-up to register your book club and receive a book club toolkit, facilitator's guide, and invitation to an end-of-the year Kamayan celebration.

Register your book club and receive a toolkit, facilitator's guide, and invitation to our end-of-the-year Kamayan celebration.

Previous Campus-Wide Book Reads

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)