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

 

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