READ: BOOKS AND ARTICLES
BELOW YOU WILL FIND BOOKS AND ARTICLES, AS WELL AS FICTION, MEMOIR, POETRY, AND TITLES FOR CHILDREN.
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Non-Fiction Books & Articles
- Resmaa Menakem - My Grandmother’s Hands
- Robin J. Diangelo - White Fragility
- Ta-Nehisi Coates - Between the World and Me (Memoir)
- Caliban and The Witch by Sylvia Federici
- Layla F. Saad - Me and White Supremacy
- Ibram X. Kendi - How to Be Anti-Racist
- Malcom X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Austin Channing Brown - I’m Still Here, Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness
- Midge Wilson, Kathy Russell - Divided Sisters
- Lani Guinier, Gerald Torres - The Miner’s Canary
- George Lipsitz - Possessive Investment In Whiteness
- Bell Hooks - Ain’t I A Woman, Black Women and Feminism
- Angela Y. Davis - Women, Race, and Class
- But Some of Us Are Brave, Black Women’s Studies (Anthology of Black Feminist Scholarship)
- Frantz Fanon - The Wretched of The Earth
- Matthew Frye Jacobson - Whiteness of a Different Color
- Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
- The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
- Patricia Hill Collins - Black Feminist Thought
- Roots Deeper than Whiteness by David Dean - (Colonization in Europe)
- The Vast and Beautiful World of Indigenous Europe
- The Chalice and the Blade - Riane Eisler
- List of White Anti-Racist Activists in American History
- Audre Lorde - Sister Outside
- Beverly Daniel Tatum - Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
- Renni Eddo-Lodge - Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
- Tiffany Jewel - This Book Is Anti-Racist
- Why You Need to Stop Saying “All Lives Matter”
- The New York Times Anti-Racist Reading List
- Joy DeGruy - Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury & Healing
- Richard Rothstein: The Color of Law : A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated Americ
- aTara Brach - Facing my White Privilege
- Michelle Johnson - Skills In Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga to Create a Just World
- Queer and Trans Artists of Color Stories of Some of Our Lives, Nia King
- Pleasure Activism, Adrienne Maree Brown
- Emergent Strategy, Adrienne Maree Brown
- The Body is Not an Apology, Sonya Renee Taylor
- The Case Against "Allies"
- 10 Simple Ways White People Can Step Up to Fight Everyday RacismDear White People: BIPOC Are Not Your Charity
- Disrupting Systemic Whiteness in the Mindfulness Movement5 Ways White People Can Take Action in Response to White and State-Sanctioned ViolenceHow to Support Your Partner of Color at Your White Family's Holiday GatheringAccomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex9 Phrases Allies Can Say When Called Out Instead of Getting DefensiveHow to Tell the Difference Between Real Solidarity and ‘Ally Theater’
- Why Interracial Relationships Are Not Racial Progress
- But Actually Imagine Transformative Alternatives to Policing
- Loving a Black person isn’t the same as fighting for Black lives
- BIBOC addiction resources
Fiction, Poetry, Memoir & Political Satire
- Toni Morrison - Recitatif (Short Story)
- The Bridge Called My Back - Writings By Radical Women of Color (Collection of Shorts)
- Nayyirah Waheed - Salt (Poetry)
- Justin Simien Ian O’Phelan - Dear White People
- Nella Larsen - Passing (Novel)
- Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God (Novel)
- The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison (Novel)
- Ntozake Shange - For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
- Octavia Butler - Parable of the Sower : A powerful tale of a dark and dystopian future
- Octavia Butler - Kindred
- Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Water Dancer
- Maya Angelou - I know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Children’s Books
- Children’s Books that Feature and Tackle Race and Ethnicity
- A Children’s Book List for Anti Racist Activism
- How to Talk to Your Children about Protests and Racism
- Anastasia Higginbotham - Not My Idea
- Marianne Celano - Something Happened In Our Town
- Pat Thomas - The Skin I’m In
- Innosanto Nagara - A Is For Activist
- Jewell Parker Rhodes - Ghost Boys
- Duncan Tonatiuh - Separate is Never Equal