A WEB-BASED CURRICULUM ON WHITENESS

THE PEOPLE'S INSTITUTE FOR SURVIVAL AND BEYOND
www.pisab.org
SELECTED ANTIRACIST RESOURCES


Updated January 2021


Anti-Racist Resources - Foundational to PISAB Analysis

Alexander, Michelle, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Press, 2010.

Billings, David, Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in U.S. History and Life. CDDBooks, 2016.

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the U.S. Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

Davis, Angela, Women, Race, and Class. Random House, 1981.

Franklin, John Hope, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Amerians. Vintage Press 1961.

Giddings, Paula, When & Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America. Harper-Collins, 1984.

Gossett, Thomas, Race: The History of an Idea in America. Pendulum Press, 1987.

Higgenbotham, Leon A. Jr., In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process: The Colonial Period. Oxford, 1980.

Lipsitz, George, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Benefit from Identity Politics. Temple University Press, 1998.

Lopez, Ian Haney, White By Law: The Legal Construction of Race. NYU Press, 1999.

Montagu, Ashley, Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race. Alta Mira Press 1942; reissued 1997.

Takaki, Ronald, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Revised ed. Hachette Book Group, 2008.

Woodson, Carter G., The Mis-Education of the Negro. New World Press, 1933, 1990.


History of Racism - General

Aptheker, Herbert,Anti-Racism in U.S. History.Praeger,1993.

Billings, David,Deep Denial: The Persistence of WhiteSupremacy in United States History and Life.Crandall, Dostie & Douglass, 2016.

Carson, Clayborne (1981)In Struggle: SNCC and theBlack Awakening of the 1960's.Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA

Davis, A. (2016)Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson,Palestine, and the Foundation of a Movement. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books.

Dyson, Michael Eric,Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermonto White America. St. Martins Press. 2017.

Goldberg, D., ed.,Anatomy of Racism. Regents ofthe University of Minnesota, 1990.

Gossett, Thomas,Race: The History of an Idea in America.Pendulum Press, 1987.

Gross, Ariela J.,What Blood Won't Tell: A Historyof Race on Trial in America.Harvard Univ. Press,2008

Hacker, A,Two Nations: Black and White, Separate,Hostile, Unequal.New York: Ballantine, 1992.

Harding, Vincent,Hope and History: Why We Must Sharethe Story of the Movement. Orbis Books,1990.

Horne, Gerald,The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenthcentury. NYU Press, 2020.

Higgenbotham, Leon A. Jr.,In the Matter of Color:Race and The American Legal Process: The Colonial Period.Oxford, 1980.

Jordan, Winthrop D,The White Man's Burden: HistoricalOrigins of Racism in America.Oxford, 1974.

Katznelson, Ira,When Affirmative Action Was White.WW Norton, 2005.

Kendi, Ibram X.,Stamped from the Beginning. NationBooks, 2016.

Kluger, Richard,Simple Justice. Alfred A. Knopf,1976.

Kly, Y.N.,The AntiSocial Contract. Clarity International,1989.

Lopez, Ian Haney,WhiteByLaw: The Legal Constructionof Race.NYU Press, 1999.

Lui, Meizhu, et al.,TheColor of Wealth: The StoryBehind the U.S. Wealth Divide. New York, New Press, 2006.

Montagu, Ashley,Man's Most Dangerous Myth,TheFallacyof Race.Alta Mira Press, 1942; reissued, 1997.

Moore, Robert B. "Racism in the English Language."http://www.angelfire.com/or3/tss/raclang.html.

Olson, Lynne,Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroinesof the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970. Simon & Schuster, 2001.

PBS."Race: The Power of an Illusion."Los Angeles,California NewsReel.2005. Episode One: "The Difference Between Us;" Episode Two:The Story We Tell;" EpisodeThree:The House We Live In."

Porter, Eduardo,American Poison: How Racial HostilityDestroyed Our Promise. 2020.

Prashad, Vijay,The Karma of Brown Folk, Universityof Minnesota Press, 2001.

Roediger, David R.,How Race Survived U.S. History:From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon. VersoPress, 2008.

Said, Edward W.,Orientalism. Vintage Books/RandomHouse, 1978.

Smedley, Audrey and Brian D.,Race in North America:Origin and Evolution of a World View.Westview Press, 2007.

Takaki, Ronald,A Different Mirror: A History ofMulticultural America. Revised ed. Hachette Book Group, 2008.

Takaki, Ronald,Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19Century America.Oxford Press, 1979.

Wilkinson, Isabelle,Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.Random House, 2020.

Zinn, Howard,APeople's History of the United States:1492-Present.Harper Perennial Library,1995.


* African-American History & Studies

Allen, Robert L.,Black Awakening in Capitalist America:An Analytic History. African World Press, 1990.

Baptist, Edward E.,The Half Has Never Been Told:Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. Basic Books, 2016.

Bennett, LeRone.Before the Mayflower: A History ofBlack America. 25Anniversary Edition, PenguinPress, 1961.

Blackmon, Douglas,Slavery byAnotherName: The Re-Enslavementof Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. Anchor Books, 2008.

Breitman, George, ed,Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speechesand Statements. Grove Press, 1965.

Christ, Amadeuz. "Out of Darkness," documentary, PrimeVideo, 2016.

Conrad, Earl,The Invention of the Negro, Paul S.Eriksson,Inc.,1966.

Drake, St. Clair,Black Folk Here and There,2 vols.Center for Afro-American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles,1987,1990.

DuBois, W.E.B.,TheSouls of Black Folk.Penguin Books,1903, 1989

Edwards, Tyronne,The Forgotten People: Restoringa Missing Segment of Plaquemines Parish History.Xlibris 2017.

Franklin, John Hope,From Slavery to Freedom: A Historyof African Americans.Vintage Press, 1961.

Glaude, Eddie S., Jr.,Democracy in Black: How RaceStill Enslaves the American Soul, Broadway Books,2016.

Harney, Stefano & Fred Moten,The Undercommons: fugitiveplanning and Black study. Minor Compositions, 2013.

Horne, Gerald,The Counter-Revolution of 1776: SlaveResistance & the Origins of the USA. 2019. (Book & Documentary).

Johnson, Walter,Soul By Soul: Life Inside the AntebellumSlave Market. Harvard University Press, 1999.

Karenga, Maulana,Introduction to Black Studies,fourthedition,University of Sankore Press,2010.

Khan-Cullors, P. and Bandele A,When They Call Youa Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2018.

Marable, Manning,Race, Reform & Rebellion: The 2Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990.2Ed,

University of Mississippi Press, 1991.

Ortiz, Paul,An African American and Latinx Historyof the United States. Beacon Press, 2018.

Reid-Merritt, Patricia(ed.),Race in America: How aPseudoscientific Concept Shaped Human Interaction,2 vols.,Praeger,2017.

Robinson, Cedric J.,On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism,and Cultures of Resistance. Pluto Press, 2019.

Robinson, Randall,TheDebt: What America Owes toBlacks.Plume, 2000.

Stroud, George M.,Stroud's Slave Laws: A Sketch ofthe Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several Statesof the United States of America, Imprint Editions, 2005(orig.1856).

Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta,From BlackLivesMatter toBlack Liberation. Haymarket Books, 2016.

Wilkerson, Isabelle,TheWarmth of Other Suns.VintageBooks (now paperback & audiobook), 2010.


Asian-American History & Studies

Chou, Rosalind S. & Joe R. Feagin,TheMyth of theModel Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism. ParadigmPublisher, 2008.

Fadiman, Anne,The Spirit Catches You and You FallDown: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. Farrar, Straus andGiroux, 1997.

Lee, E.,The Making of Asian America: A History.NewYork: Simon & Schuster, 2015.

Lee, S. ,Unraveling the "Model Minority" Stereotype:Listening to Asian Youth.New York: Teachers College Press, 2009.

Silva, Noenoe K.,Aloah Betrayed: Native HawaiianResistance to American Colonialism. Duke University Press, 2004.

Takaki, Ronald,StrangersFroma Different Shore:A History of Asian Americans.Little Brown,1998.

Wu, Frank H.,Yellow: Race in America Beyond Blackand White. Basic Books, 2002.


Latinx History & Studies

Acuna, Rodolfo,Occupied America, A History of Chicanos.Pearson, 3Edition. 1987.

Denis, Nelson,War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolutionand Terror in America's Colony.Bold Type Books, 2015.

Gomez, L,Manifest Destinies: The Making of the MexicanAmerican Race,NYU Press, 2008.

Gonzalez, Juan,Harvest of Empire:AHistory of Latinosin America(revised edition).Penguin Books, 2000, 2011.

"Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos inAmerica,"http://player.vimeo.com/video/48145023 Martinez, E. (editor),500 Years of Chicano History.NM: Southwest Organizing Project, 1991,public high school. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc.

Martínez, Elizabeth,De ColoresMeans All of Us: LatinaViews for a Multi-Colored Century.South End Press, 1998.

Martinez, G. ,Native Pride: The politics of curriculumand instruction in an urban, public high school. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc. 2010.

Mora, G. Christina,Making Hispanics: How Activists,Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American. University of Chicago, 2014.

Quiñones-Rosado, Raúl, "Hispanic or Latino?The Strugglefor Identity in a Race-based Society,"The Diversity Factor,Vol. 6, No. 4, Elsie Y. Cross Associates,Inc., Philadelphia PA, 1998.

Rodriguez, Clara E., Changing Race: Latinos, the Census,and the History of Ethnicity in the United States, NYU Press, 2000.

Rodríguez, Victor M,Latino Politics in the UnitedStates: Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in theMexican American and Puerto Rican Experience.Kendall Hunt,2005.


Native-American History & Studies

Brown, Dee,Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. Owl Books, 1970.

Deloria, Vine Jr.,Custer Died for Your Sins: An IndianManifesto. MacMillan Company, 1969.

Jaimes, M. Annette,TheState of Native American Genocide,Colonization & Resistance.South End Press, 1992.

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne,An Indigenous People's Historyof the United States. Beacon Press, 2014.

Echo-Hawk, Walter,In the Courts of the Conqueror:The Ten Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided. Birchbark Books, 2012.

Jaimes, M. Annette,The State of Native American Genocide,Colonization & Resistance. South End Pres, 1992.

Newcomb, Steven T., Pagans in a Promised Land: Decodingthe Doctrine of Christian Discovery. Birchbark Books. 2008.

Norgren, Jill,The Cherokee Cases: Two Landmark FederalDecisions in the Fight for Sovereignty. University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.

Procha, Francis Paul, ed., Documents of United StatesIndian Policy. University of Nebraska Press, 1975, 2000.

Saunt, Claudio, Unworthy Republic: The Dispossessionof Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory. W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.

Tinker, G.,Spirit and Resistance: Political Theologyand American Indian Liberation.Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2004.

Treuer, David,The Heartbeat f Wounded Knee: NativeAmerica from 1890 to the Present. Riverhead Books, 2019.


White History & Studies

Allen, Theodore,Invention of the White Race.VersoBooks, Vol.I - 1994, Vol II - 1997.

Allen, R. (2008)What About Poor White People?inThe Handbook of Social Justice in Education,R W. Ayers, T. Quinn & D. Stovall: Routledge.

Anderson, Carol,White Rage: The Unspoken Truth ofOur Racial Divide. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.

Berger, Maurice,White Lies: Race and the Myths ofWhiteness. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1999.

Biewen, John, "Seeing White,"http://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/2017.

Brodkin, Karen,How Jews Became White Folks & WhatThat Says About Race in America. Rutgers University Press,3ed. 2000.

Guglielmo, Jennifer,Are Italians White? How Raceis Made in America. Routledge, 2003.

Hitchcock, Jeff,Lifting the White Veil.Crandall,Dostie & Douglass Books, 2011.

Hughes, Langston,TheWays of White Folks.VintageBooks, 1990.

Ignatiev, Noel,How the Irish Became White.Routledge,1995.

Jacobson, Matthew Frye,Whiteness of a Different Color:European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race. Harvard University Press, 1998.

Kendall, Frances E.,Understanding White Privilege:creating pathways to authentic relationships across race. Routledge, 2013.

Kinchelow, Joe. L.,White Reign: Deploying Whiteness in America.St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Lipsitz, George,The Possessive Investment in Whiteness:How White People Benefit from Identity Politics. TempleUniversity Press, 1998.

Matias, C. ,Feeling White: Whiteness, Emotionality,and Education. Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Sense Publishers, 2016.

Metzl, Jonathan,Dying of Whiteness: How the Politicsof Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland. Basic Books, 2019.

Painter, Nell Irvin,TheHistory of White People,New York, WW Norton, 2010.

Roediger, David R.,Working Toward Whiteness: HowAmerica's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs. Basic Books,2018.

Saad, Layla F.,Me and White Supremacy: combat racism,change the world and become a good ancestor. Sourcebooks, 2020.

Terry, Robert,For Whites Only.Wm. B. Eardmans PublishingCo, June 1975.


Racism in Post-Civil Rights U.S.

Bayoumi, Moustafa,How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?:Being Young and Arab in America. Penguin Random House, 2009.

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo,Racism without Racists: Color-BlindRacism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in theU.S. Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

Davis, Kari."A GirlLikeMe."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjy9q8VekmE.

Hedges, Chris and Joe Sacco,Days of Destruction/Daysof Revolt.New York, Nation Books, 2012.

Oliver, Melvin L. & Thomas M. Shapiro,Black Wealth/WhiteWealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality. Routledge, 1997.

Roberts, Dorothy E.,Fatal Intervention: How Science,Politics and Big Business Re-create Race in the 21 Century.The New Press, 2012.

Root, Marla,Racially Mixed People in America.SagePublishers, 1992.

Steinberg, Stephen,Turning Back: The Retreat fromRacial Justice in American Thought and Policy.Beacon Press,1995/2001.

West, Cornell,Race Matters. Beacon Press, 1994.

Wise, Tim,Color-Blind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politicsand the Retreat from Racial Equity.City Lights Publishing, 2010.


Contemporary AntiRacist Analysis and Strategy

Alinsky, Saul D.,Rules for Radicals: APragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals. RandomHouse, 1970. Barndt, Joseph,Understanding and Dismantling Racism.Minneapolis MN, Fortress, 2007.

Brown, Adrienne Maree,Emergent Strategy: ShapingChange, Changing Worlds. AK Press, 2017.

Burrell, Tom,Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth ofBlack Inferiority.New York, Smiley Books, 2010.

Calderón, JLove,Occupying Privilege: Conversationson Love, Race & Liberation.Love-N-Liberation Press, 2012.

Kendi, Ibram X.,How to be an Anti Racist. PenguinRandom House, 2019.

Chisom, Ronald,Principles of Anti-Racist Organizing.People's Institute Press, 2005.

_______, Ronald & Michael Washington,Undoing Racism:A Philosophy of International Social Change. PISAB, 1997.

Coss, Ellis,TheEnd of Anger: A New Generation'sTake on Race and Rage.Harper Collins, 2011.

Cushing, Bonnie, et al, eds.,Accountability and WhiteAntiRacist Organizing: Stories from Our Work.Crandall, Dostie& Douglass Books, 2010.

DiAngelo, Robin,White Fragility: Why It's So Hardfor White People to Talk About Racism. Beacon Press, 2018.

Fullilove, Mindy,Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It.One World/Ballantine, 2005.

Irving, Debby,Waking Up White: Finding Myself inthe story of Race. Elephant Room Press, 2014.

King, Martin Luther, Jr.,Where Do We Go From Here:Chaos or Community?Harper & Row, 1967.

Kivel, Paul,Uprooting Racism: How White People CanWork for Racial Justice. Canada, New Society Publishers,2002.

Okun, Tema,The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching Raceand Racism to People Who Don't Want to Know. Information Age, 2010.

Oluo, Ijeoma,So You Want To Talk About Race. SealPress, 2018.

Quiñones-Rosado, Raúl,Consciousnessin Action: Towardan Integral Psychology of Liberation & Transformation,IléPublications, Caguas, PR, 2007.

Radcliffe, Kenneth L.,Applying Alcohol AnonymousPrinciples toTheDisease of Racism. Radcliffebooks@verizon.net, 2012.


Racism and Criminal Justice

Alexander, Michelle,TheNew Jim Crow: Mass Incarcerationin the Age of Colorblindness.The New Press, 2010.

Davis, Angela Y.,Are Prisons Obsolete?Seven storiesPress, 2003.

Gilmore, Ruth Wilson,Golden Gulag: prisons, surplus,crisis and opposition in globalizing California. University of California Press, 2007.

Muhammad, Khalil,Condemnation of Blackness: Race,Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America. HarvardUniversity Press, 2010.

Pfaff, John,Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration.Basic Books, 2017.

Stevenson, Bryan,Just Mercy: A Story ofJustice & Redemption.Random House, 2015.

Rothstein, Richard,The Color of Law: A ForgottenHistory of How Our Government Segregated America, New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017.

Schenwar, Maya, & Victoria Law, prison by any OtherName: the harmful consequences of popular reforms. The New Press, 2020.


Racism and Education

Carnoy, Martin,Education as Cultural Imperialism,David McKay Company, Inc.,1974.

Derman-Sparks, Louise, Carole Brunson Phillips, AsaG. Hillard III,Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism: A DevelopmentalApproach.Teachers College, 1997.

Freire, Paulo,Pedagogy of the Oppressed.Herder &Herder, 1970.

Hale, Janice,Learning While Black: Creating EducationalExcellence for African American Children. Johns HopkinsPress, 2001.

Kozol, Jonathan,Savage Inequalities: Children inAmerican Schools.Harper Collins, 1991.

Loewen, James,LiesMy teacher Told Me: EverythingYour American History Textbook Got Wrong.New Press, 1995.

New York Collective of Radical Educators."No Humanis Illegal: An Educators Guide for Addressing Immigration intheClassroom.April.2006.http://www.nycore.org.

Nieto, S.,Affirmation, Solidarity and Critique: MovingBeyond Tolerance in EducationinBeyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to K-12 Anti-RacistMulticultural Education and Staff Development. Maryland: McArdle Printing, 1998.

Noguera, Pedro and Jean Yonemura Wing, eds.,Unfinished Business: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap in ourSchools.Jossey Bass, 2006.

Pollock, Mica,ed.,Everyday Antiracism: Getting RealAbout Race in School.The New Press, 2008.

Shujaa, Mwalimu J.,Too Much Schooling, Too LittleEducation. Africa World Press,1994.

Tatum, Beverly D.,Why Are All the Black Kids SittingTogether in the Cafeteria? New York: Basic Books, 1997.

Van Ausdale, Debra & Joe Feagin,The First R: HowChildren Learn Race and Racism.Roman and Littlefield, 2002.

Wilder, Craig Stephen,Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slaveryand the Troubled History of American Universities. Bloomsbury Press, 2013.

Woodson, Carter G.,TheMis-Education of the Negro.Trenton, NJ,Africa World Press, 1933, 1990.


Race and Gender

Berry, Daina Ramey & Kali Nicole Gross,A Black Women'sHistory of the United States. Beacon Press, 2020.

Davis, Angela,Women, Race, and Class.Random House,1981.

hooks, bell,Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism.South End Press, 1981.

Lopez, N.,Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys: Race andGender Disparity in Urban Education.New York: Routledge, 2003.

Lorde, Audre,Sister Outsider. Penguin Books, 1984.

Walker, Alice, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens.Mariner Books, 1983.

Ware, Vron,Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism andHistory.1992.


Racism and Health/Mental Health & Medicine

Blitz, Lisa and Pender Greene, Mary, Eds.,Racismand Racial Identity: Reflections on Urban Practicein Mental Health and Social Services.New York, Haworth Press,2006.

Hoberman, John,Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequencesof Medical Racism.Univ. of California Press, 2012.

Hoftrichter, Richard & Raji Bhatia, eds.,TacklingHealth Inequities through Public Health Practice:Theory to Action, Second Edition.Oxford University Press, 2010

Institute of Medicine,Unequal Treatment: ConfrontingRacial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care.National Academy Press, 2002.

Jones, James H.,Bad Blood: The Tuskegee SyphilisExperiment: A Tragedy of Race and Medicine. The Free Press, 1982.

Leary, Joy, Post-Traumatic Slavery Syndrome: America'sLegacy of Enduring Injury and Healing.Uptone Press, 2005.

Menakem, Resmaa,My Grandmother's Hands: RacializedTrauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies. Central Recovery Press, 2017.

PBS."Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?"LosAngeles, California Newsreel, 2008.4-hour, 7-parts. Skloot, Rebecca,The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.Broadway Books, 2011.

Smith, Jeremy, Jason Marsh & Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton,Are We Born Racist? New Insights from Neuroscience andPositive Psychology.Beacon Press,2010.

Steele, Claude,Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Cluesto How Stereotypes Affect Us.WW Norton & Co, 2011.

Sue, D. et al., "Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Implications for Clinical Practice,"American Psychologist,Vol. 62, No. 4, 2007.

Washington, Harriet,Medical Apartheid: The Dark Historyof Medical Experimentation on Black Americans fromColonial Times to the Present.Doubleday, 2007.


Racism and Media

Gonzalez, Juan & Joseph Torres,News for All the People:The Epic Story of Race and the American Media.Verso, 2011.


Racism and Religion

Barndt, Joseph,Becoming an Anti-RacistChurch: Journeying toward Wholeness. Fortress Press,2019.

Tisby, Jemar,The Color of Compromise: The Truth Aboutthe American Church's Complicity in Racism. Zondervan, 2019.

Cone, James,The Cross and the Lynching., Orbis Books,2011.

Wallis, Rev. Jim,America's Original Sin:Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a NewAmerica. Brazos Press, 2016.


Biography/Fiction

Baldwin, James,The Fire Next Time. Dial Press, 1963.

Braden, Ann,TheWall Between.University of Tennessee,1999.

Campbell, Will D.,Brother to a Dragonfly. Bloomsbury,1977; re-issued 2000.

Coates, Ta-Nehisi,Between the World and Me.Spiegel& Grau, 2015.

Edwards, Tyronne,Let us Arise and Rebuild. WestwoodBooks Publishing, LLC, 2018.

Joseph, Peniel E.,Stokley: A Life. BasicCivitasBooks, 2014.

Meeks, Catherine & Nibs Stroupe,Passionate for Justice:Ida B. Wells as a Prophet for Our Time. Church Publishing, 2019.

Segrest, Mab,Memoirs of a Race Traitor.South EndPress, 1994.

Smith, Lillian,Killers of the Dream.Norton & Co,1947; re-issued, 1994.

Willis, Teresa Ann,Like a TreeWithoutRoots.www.atreewithoutroots.wix.com/latwr.

Zellner, Bob, with Constance Curry,The Wrong Sideof Murder Creek - A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement. New South Books, 2008.


Books for Youth

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, An Indigenous Peoples' Historyof the United States for Young People.

Garcia, Lalena, What We Believe: A Black Lives MatterPrinciples Activity Book..Illustrated by Caryn Davidson. Lee and Lowe Books, 2020. (elementary age)

Jewell, Tiffany, This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessonson How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work. Illustrated byAurélia Durand(upper elementary andup)

Manzano, Sonia,The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano. (New York City youth learns more about her heritage and the Young Lords).

Medina, Tony, IAm Alfonso Jones.Illustrated by StaceyRobinson, John Jennings (a graphic novel about a police shooting of a young Black youth)

Reynolds, Jason & IbrahimX Kendi, Stamped: Racism,Antiracism and You[There is another version of this book coming out for younger children in May 2021]

Tonatiuh, Duncan,Separate is Never Equal: SylviaMendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation. Harry N. Abrams, 2014.

Williams-Garcia, Rita, One Crazy Summer(three sistersfrom Brooklyn and their encounter with The Black Panthers in California)


Books for Educators, Parents, Caretakers

Kendi, Ibram X., Antiracist Baby Picture Book.Illustratedby Ashley Lukashevsky. Kokila, 2019..

Emdin, Christophe, For White Folks Who Teach in theHood and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education.Beacon Press, 2013.

Love, Bettina L., We Want to Do More than Survive:Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom.Beacon Press, 2019.

Watson, Dyan, Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au, eds., Teachingfor Black Lives


Contemporary Antiracist Analysis & Strategy

Bobo, Kim,Organizing for Social Change(4edition).Midwest Academy for Activists, 1991.

The California State Advisory Committee to the UnitedStates Commission on Civil Rights, The McCone Commission Report of the Los Angeles Riots,1966.

The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders,TheKerner Report,1968,2016.

Garrett, Shaylyn Romney and Robert D. Putnam,TheUpswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again. Simon & Shuster, 2020.

Haney-Lopez, Ian,Dog Whistle Politics: How CodedRacial Appeals have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class. Oxford University Press, 2013.

Hooks, bell,the will to change. Simon & Schuster,2004.

___________,Teaching to Transgress: education asthe practice of freedom. Routledge, 1994.

Jones, C. (2000)Going Public: Levels of Racism: A Theoretical Framework and a Gardener's Talein American Journal of Public Health: August; vol. 90,No. 8

Ransby, Barbara, Making All Black Lives Matter: ReimaginingFreedom in the 21st Century, University of California Press,2018.


Racism & Political Economy

MacLean, Nancy,Democracy in Chains: The Deep Historyof the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America. Penguin Books, 2017.

Zinn, Howard, A People's History of the United States, 1492-Present. Harper Perennial Library, 1995.