An Incomplete List: Racial Justice
curated by members of our Advocacy Committee in 2020
Books
- Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
- Sherman Alexie: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- Carol Anderson: White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
- James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time
- Paul Beatty: The Sell Out
- Douglas A. Blackmon: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
- Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
- Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me
- Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Case for Reparations
- Ta-Nehisi Coates: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
- Brittany Cooper: Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
- Robin DiAngelo: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
- W.E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folks
- Michael Eric Dyson: Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
- Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
- Joe R. Feagin: The White Racial Frame; Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing
- Joe R. Feagin: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations
- Joe. R. Feagin: Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression
- bell hooks: Ain’t I A woman
- Debby Irving: Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
- Margo Jefferson: Negroland
- T. Geronimo Johnson: Welcome to Braggsville
- Audre Lord: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
- Monique Morris: Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
- Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye
- Chimanmanda Ngozi: Americanah
- Claudia Rankin: Citizen: An American Lyric
- Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Bryan Stevenson: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
- Beverly Tatum: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
- Angie Thomas: The Hate You Give
- Jesmyn Ward: The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
- Harriet A. Washington: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
- Cornel West: Race Matters
- Colson Whitehead: The Underground Railroad
- Tim Wise: Color-Blind; The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat From Racial Equity
- Tim Wise: Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority
- Tim Wise: White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
Blog
- Mia McKenzie: Black Girl Dangerous (a blog that brings queer and trans people of color to the center)
Websites
- Whites Educating Whites (so people of color don’t have to) whiteseducatingwhites.tumblr.com
- Learning for Justice (a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center) learningforjustice.org
Movies, TV Series, and Documentaries
- 13th
- Clemency
- Dear White People
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- The Hate U Give
- The House I Live In
- Just Mercy
- The Life and Death of Marsha P Johnson
- Maya Angelou: And Still I RiseSelma
- Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
- Watchmen
- When They See Us
- Whose Streets