Reading Resources
BOOKS
ARTICLES / PAPERS / ESSAYS
ACTIVISTS / WRITERS / RESOURCES TO FOLLOW/READ
- Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble
- The Awkward Thoughts of W Kamau Bell by W. Kamau Bell
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
- Citizen by Claudia Rankine
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
- Don’t Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson
- Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
- Evicted by Matthew Desmond
- Hair Matters: Beauty, Power, and Black Women’s Consciousness by Ingrid Banks, PhD
- The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
- Holistic Self-Care for Change Makers by Loretta Pyles
- Kindred by Octavia Butler
- Me & White Supremacy Workbook by Layla F. Saad
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- No One Ever Asked by Katie Ganshert
- The Person You Mean to Be by Dolly Chugh
- Slavery By Another Name by Douglas Blackman
- So You Want To Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The View from Flyover Country by Sarah Kendzior
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- When They Call You A Terrorist by Asha Bandele and Patrisse Cullors
- Where We Stand: Class Matters by Bell Hooks
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- April Hathcock - her blog - (especially what went down at American Literary Association midwinter meeting).
- Plus a couple of articles.
ARTICLES / PAPERS / ESSAYS
- 10 Ways To Pay Reparations If You’re a Broke-Ass White Person by DiDi Delgado
- 40 Acres and a Mule Would Be at Least $6.4 Trillion Today—What the U.S. Really Owes Black America by Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn and Jeff Neumann
- The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Educating Elementary School Children About California Missions and the Perpetuation of Genocide by Nichole Meyers-Lim
- It's time to acknowledge the genocide of California's Indians - Los Angeles Times by Benjamin Madley
- Message to White Allies from A Black Anti-Racism Expert: You’re Doing It Wrong by Dr. David Campt
- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan Cullors and Asha Bandele
ACTIVISTS / WRITERS / RESOURCES TO FOLLOW/READ
- Desiree Adaway - consultant, trainer, coach and speaker; principal of the Adaway Group; [Facebook]
- Rachel Cargle - writes and lectures on things that exist at the intersection of race and womanhood
- Gene Demby - American Journalist; lead blogger on NPR’s race, ethnicity and culture team Code Switch and cohost of the Code Switch podcast [Twitter]
- Glennon Doyle
- April Hathcock - writing about the intersection of libraries, law, feminism, and diversity; [Twitter]
- Sara Haile-Mariam
- Robin D.G. Kelly - American historian and academic, who is the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA
- Brittany Packnett - activist, co-founder of Campaign Zero; [Facebook]
- Shaun King - American writer, civil rights activist, and co-founder of Real Justice PAC; [Facebook]
- Layla Saad - author of White Supremacy & Me Workbook
Parental and Teacher Reading Resources
- Reflections on Talking to Kids about Racism
- Embrace Race, great resource, with an excellent book list.
- And more books to raise an anti-racist by, in this New York Times article, "These Books Can Help You Explain Racism and Protest to Your Kids".
- For parents and educators: The 1619 Project Curriculum, delving into The 1619 Project Initiative started by the New York Time Magazine.
