Recommended Reading
White Fragility: Why its so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism By Robin DiAngelo
Between the World and Me By Ta-nahesi Coates
How to be an anti-racist By Ibram Kendi
Be the Bridge by Latasha Morrison
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals
The Myth of Race by Jefferson M. Fish
The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
In the Matter of Color: Race & The American Legal Process: The Colonial Period by A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
When they call you a terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by patrisse khan-cullors and asha Bandele with a Foreword by angela davis
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Cumbahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Native Son by Richard Wright
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Toussaint L'Ouverture: The Fight for Haiti's Freedom by Walter Dean Myers
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates
Home Is A Dirty Street; The Social Oppression of Black Children by Useni Eugene Perkins
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass.
Be the Bridge by Latasha Morrison
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals
The Myth of Race by Jefferson M. Fish
The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
In the Matter of Color: Race & The American Legal Process: The Colonial Period by A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
When they call you a terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by patrisse khan-cullors and asha Bandele with a Foreword by angela davis
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Cumbahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Native Son by Richard Wright
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Toussaint L'Ouverture: The Fight for Haiti's Freedom by Walter Dean Myers
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates
Home Is A Dirty Street; The Social Oppression of Black Children by Useni Eugene Perkins
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass.
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (the film version is also available on Netflix)
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr. Joy DeGruy
Recommended reading for educators:
Promoting Racial Literacy in Schools: Differences That Make a Difference by Howard C. Stevenson
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris (since the book has been written, the author has also filmed a documentary, but it looks a little difficult to get ahold of. There is an option to buy the DVD, but all TV viewings have already taken place for 2020 and it is not available for streaming, however, this discussion guide was made available and is probably still relevant to the book)
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele
Black Stats by Monique Morris
The Teacher Wars by Dana Goldstein
The Sisters are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America by Tamara Winfrey Harris
The Miseducation of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (the film version is also available on Netflix)
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr. Joy DeGruy
Recommended reading for educators:
Promoting Racial Literacy in Schools: Differences That Make a Difference by Howard C. Stevenson
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris (since the book has been written, the author has also filmed a documentary, but it looks a little difficult to get ahold of. There is an option to buy the DVD, but all TV viewings have already taken place for 2020 and it is not available for streaming, however, this discussion guide was made available and is probably still relevant to the book)
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele
Black Stats by Monique Morris
The Teacher Wars by Dana Goldstein
The Sisters are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America by Tamara Winfrey Harris
The Miseducation of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
