Social Justice

I was thinking about texts that I learned when I was in middle school that taught me injustice and the first was the dairy of Anne Frank, I think now with the state that the political United States is in (including its prejudices and fears targeted toward specific groups of people), I think it would be something I could be completely compassionate about teaching.  I think it's really important to teach students to be empathetic towards others that are unlike them and in ways completely different from them.  There are a ton of books that I've read about social justice and social injustice but I think I would focus on one that centers on the idea of immigration and WHY specifically do immigrants flee their countries.  I think that forcing students to be empathetic and place themselves in someone elses shoes is vastly important and it's a way to observe different perspectives and how they feel for the protagonist in a text who's being targeted.  I really love this book I've been reading in my Post Colonialism class, called "How to Escape from a Leper Colony", I think it really covers the internal struggles that people of different colors and nationalities face in the eyes of society.  I think I would go about subjecting my students to discrimination in group efforts in order to get them to reflect at the end of their lesson and cover how exactly they felt.