We have to keep everyone on board with the progressive agenda, even over the summer.

Campus Reform reports.

Social justice this year’s hot topic for summer reading assignments

Incoming freshmen across the country are being introduced to social justice concepts before even setting foot on campus, through increasingly prevalent summer reading assignments.

Although common reading programs can be optional, many administrators are choosing books that encourage students to critically assess social struggles in the season of Donald Trump and Black Lives Matter, Inside Higher Ed reports.

Students at Wesleyan University, for instance, will read The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander, which argues that strict sentencing laws for drug crimes intentionally targeted black men.

“It builds a lot on the issues of Black Lives Matter that we and many universities dealt with last year,” Wesleyan Provost Joyce Jacobsen told Inside Higher Ed. “It’s about the systematic aspect of racism, in the sense that the incarceration rate is so much higher for minorities. It’s the kind of book that students would start grappling with in college and keep reading after college.”

Students at the University of Oregon will read Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Written as a letter from an African-American man to his son, Coates’ book contends that racial injustice is ingrained in American culture.

“Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage,” The New York Times quotes from a passage in the book.

Oregon has developed a reading guide and discussion program around the book, comparing it to The New Jim Crow and introducing a broader conversation about being black in America.