Recommendations

I am trying to advance my race and class literacy skills; attending meetings and webinars, reading, and listening to books on CD are some ways I am doing this now. This is my recommendations list:

Books (my favs):

• Me and White Supremacy
• Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (A 28-Day Challenge) 
• by Layla Saad
• The 1619 Project 
• by Nikole Hannah-Jones
• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
• Native America from 1890 to the Present 
• by David Treuer
• Braiding Sweetgrass
• Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants 
• by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• My Grandmother's Hands 
• by Resmaa Menakem
• Kindred 
• by Octavia E. Butler (novel)
• 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 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)
• The Hate U Give 
• by Angie Thomas (novel)
• Born a Crime 
• by Trevor Noah
• The Body is Not an Apology
• The Power of Radical Self-Love 
• by Sonya Renee Taylor

I appreciated learning from these books too:

• How to be an Antiracist 
• by Ibram X. Kendi
• Caste
• The Origins of Our Discontents 
• by Isabel Wilkerson
• The Warmth of Other Suns
• The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 
• by Isabel Wilkerson
• Citizen 
• by Claudia Rankine
• Hood Feminism 
• by Mikki Kendall
• 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)
• The Water Dancer 
• by Ta-Nehisi Coates (novel)
• This is Your Time 
• by Ruby Bridges
• Mediocre
• by Ijeoma Oluo
• Our Time Is Now 
• by Stacey Abrams
• Fledgling 
• by Octavia E. Butler
• Racism without Racists
• Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America 
• by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
• The Sum of Us
• What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together 
• by Heather McGhee
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
• America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (PTSS) 
• by Dr. Joy DeGruy

Movies/TV shows:

• 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

Books/articles I want to read:

• 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
• 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
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

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:

1. Al-Jazeera
2. CGTN News
3. The Young Turks
4. TeleSur
5. RT
6. TRNN (The Real News)
7. Democracy Now

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If you have some book/author suggestions related to anti-racism, please post them below. Thanks, DG