Books (my favs):
- Braiding Sweetgrass Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (A 28-Day Challenge) by Layla Saad
- My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
- Caste, The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
- Neither Wolf Nor Dog, On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder by Kent Nerburn
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- The New Jim Crow (Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness) by Michelle Alexander
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (novel)
- Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult (novel)
- The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (novel)
- Citizen by Claudia Rankine
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (novel)
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
I appreciated learning from these books too:
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
- The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward Baptist
- Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II" by Douglas A. Blackmon
- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
- Invisible No More, Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie
- White Trash. The 400-Year Untold History of Class by Nancy Isenberg
- They can't kill us all: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a new era in America's racial justice movement by Wesley Lowery
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- You Have the Right to Remain Innocent by James Duane (interview here)
- On the Other Side of Freedom, The Case for Hope by DeRay Mckesson
- All The Real Indians Died Off and 20 other myths about Natives Americans by Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes)
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- America Behind the Color Line by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White by Frank Wu
- Another Woman's Daughter by Fiona Sussman
- Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende (novel)
- Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism, edited by Daisy Hernandez and others
- Memoirs of a Race Traitor by Mab Segrest
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (novel)
- How to Make White People Laugh by Negin Farsad
- An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism by Dr. Robin DiAngelo
- Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
- Reproducing Racism by Daria Roithmayr
- There There by Tommy Orange (novel)
- Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (historical fiction)
- Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
- A Song Flung Up To Heaven by Maya Angelou
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Sula by Toni Morrison
- We Want to Do More Than Survive (Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom) by Bettina Love
- Ain't I a woman: black women and feminism by bell hooks
- The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
- The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson (novel)
- Get Out (info and trailer)
- The Help
- Selma written by Paul Webb
- The Color of Fear (documentary)
- Race: The Power of an Illusion
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (this was available from my library netwk)
- Ava DuVernay's "13th"
- I am Not Your Negro (documentary, info on IMDB, watch free online here)
- Hidden Figures
- Moonlight
- Birth of a Nation, 2017 version by/with Nate Parker
- Wilmington on Fire (documentary)
- 1804: The Hidden History of Haiti (documentary)
- Hidden Colors (4 part documentary)
- Malcolm X (Spike Lee's version)
- The Book of Negros (on Hulu)
- Fireflies (short film)
- United Shades of America, esp. Sikhs in America (a TV show)
- Before They Die! about the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot
- BlacKkKlansman
- Black Panther
- Sikhs in America from United Shades of America (TV show)
- Loving
- The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
- John Lewis: Get in the Way
- Trevor Noah: Son of Patricia, on Netflix, YouTube trailer
- this is not just funny, Trevor Noah makes good points, "no immigrants, no spices" for example
- We Still Live Here As Nutayunean (link to watch it online)
- Same Kind of Different as Me (Netflix movie)
- East West Sushi (Netflix series)
- One Day at a Time (Netflix series, a take off of older series)
YouTube videos:
- Racecraft: Barbara Fields & Ta-Nehisi Coates in Conversation
- Ta Nehisi Coates and Iris Deroeux on race in France and America
- The Angry Eye with Jane Elliott
- Jane Eliot on Oprah
- Dave Chappelle Stand-Up Monologue - SNL
- "I trust you" by Karim Sulayman
- Dr. Robin DiAngelo's Talks
- What Beyonce Taught Me About Race | Brittany Barron | TEDxPasadenaWomen
Podcasts and Blogs:
- Seeing White - An exploration of solutions and responses to America’s deep history of white supremacy by host John Biewen, with Chenjerai Kumanyika. A thorough and very helpful series (10 hours in 14 parts). Go to the bottom of the page I posted to start listening to part one.
- White Affirmative Action, Seeing White, part 13 - This part of the series above I found particularly helpful for understanding so I can respond to what I hear from other white folks.
- Stepping Into Truth: Conversations on Race, Gender, and Social Justice with Omkari Williams and guests...alternative ways to think about and do activism
- Code Switch
- On Being with Krista Tippett: https://onbeing.org/programs/ruby-sales-where-does-it-hurt/ and https://onbeing.org/programs/robin-diangelo-and-resmaa-menakem-in-conversation/
Article/Essays:
- Coates-Chait Debate (A series of 5 back-and-forth essays discussing Culture of Poverty) by Coates & Chait
- The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates (YouTube video interview about this article, another one: Ferguson and Beyond)
- Syllabus for White People to Educate Themselves
- Beloved (reread), Paradise, and Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- Multiracial Cultural Attunement by Kelly Faye Jackson and Gina Miranda Samuels
- From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
- Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
- Malcolm X, A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
- Simple, Not Easy by Dr. Terrence Roberts
- A Young People’s History of the U.S.
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- The Social Construction of Whiteness, white women, race matters by Ruth Frankenberg
- Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World by Jan Goodwin
- The Education of a White Parent, Wrestling with Race and Opportunity in the Boston Public Schools by Susan Naimark
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
- How does it feel to be a problem? Being young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi
- Border-Line Personalities: A New Generation of Latinas Dish on Sex, Sass, and Cultural Shifting edited by Michelle Herrera Mulligan and Robyn Moreno
- Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Barbara J. Fields and Karen Fields
- On Being White and Other Lies by James Baldwin (online copied section from a book)
- Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Arnold R. Hirsch
- Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in United States History and Life by David Billings
- What God Hath Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe
- Other People's Children
- Savage Inequalities
- Site: 18 Books Every White Ally Should Read
- Site: 16 Books About Race That Every White Person Should Read
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- Chain of Change by Mel King
- For Us The Living by Mrs. Medgar Evers and Wm. Peters Myrlie
- Under Our Skin by Benjamin Watson
- Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County by Kristen Green
- The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
- The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
- Our Black Sons Matter by George Yancy and others
- DEAR WHITE PEOPLE by Justin Simien
- AMERICA’S ORIGINAL SIN: Racism, White Privilege and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis
- Reconstruction, by the historian Eric Foner
- YOUNG, GIFTED, AND BLACK, Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students by Theresa Perry and Claude Steele
- Battles for Freedom: The Use and Abuse of American History by Eric Foner
- Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King Jr.
- Birth of a white nation : the invention of white people and its relevance today by Jacqueline Battalora
- Racist America by Feagin, 2014
- Race & Racisms (Brief Edition) by Golash-Boza, 2016
- Getting Real about Race by McClure, 2017
- The Ways of White Folks by L. Hughes
I want to read (more) of their work:
- W.E.B. Dubois
- Zora Neale Hurston (reread Their Eyes Were Watching God)
- Maya Angelou
Sources for Independent News:
recommended by a friend for Pairing Wine Tasting with Racial Justice, 1/13/18:
- Al-Jazeera
- CGTN News
- The Young Turks
- TeleSur
- RT
- TRNN (The Real News)
- Democracy Now
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If you have some book/author suggestions related to anti-racism, please post them below. Thanks, DG
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