Resources

 “I Want to Touch The World”

A moving New York Times podcast that features accounts of George Perry Floyd, Jr. by people who knew him.

 Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir

Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years A Slave, and Four Years in the White House

Patrisse Khan-Cullors, When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

Arnold Krupat (editor), Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers

Kiese Laymon, Heavy: An American Memoir

Kori Miller, My Life in Black and White: A Biracial Woman’s Life on the Line

Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi

Bakari Sellers, My Vanishing Country: A Memoir

Rebecca Atkins and Alicia Oglesby, Interrupting Racism: Equity and Social Justice in School Counseling

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

Ruha Benjamin, Race after Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

Grace Lee Boggs, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century

Fania Davis, The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing and US Social Transformation

Roderick Ferguson, We Demand: The University and Social Protests

Dominque DuBois Glliard, Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores

Charlton McIlwain, Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, From the Afronet to Black Lives Matter

Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want To Talk About Race

Monique Morris, Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

Mica Pollock, Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School

Barbara Ransby, Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-first Century

“Why They’re Protesting”

A New York Times podcast about protests that features commentary from Minneapolis residents

Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness

Frank Baumgartner, Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us About Policing and Race

Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Gross, A Black Women’s History of the United States

Michael Bronski, A Queer History of the United States

Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah, Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery

James Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

Anna-Lisa Cox, The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America’s Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality

Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States

Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States

Nilda Flores-González, Citizens but Not Americans: Race and Belonging Among Latino Millennials

Andrea Flynn, The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy and the Rise of Jim Crow

Dina Gilio-Whitaker, As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, From Colonization to Standing Rock

Dominque DuBois Glliard, Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores

Troy Johnson, Joanne Nagel and Duane Champagne, American Indian Activism: Alcatraz to the Longest Walk

Stephanie Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Ibram Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Erika Lee, The Making of Asian America: A History

Erika Lee, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States

Ersula Ore, Lynching: Violence, Rhetoric and American Identity

Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People

Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Se3gregated America

Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Ray Suarez, Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy that Shaped A Nation

Candace Taylor, Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLIvesMatter to Black Liberation

Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

Harriet Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present

Ida B. Wells, The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader

Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

Chris Zepeda-Millán, Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization and Activism

Jenna Arnold, Raising Our Hands: How White Women Can Stop Avoiding Hard Conversations, Start Accepting Responsibility, and Find Our Place on the New Frontlines

Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism

Scott Heggs, Hypocrisy in America: The Veil of White Supremacy

Elizabeth McRae, Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy

Jonathan Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland

Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People

Claudia Rankine, “The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning”

A powerful New York Times podcast and reflection by poet and writer Claudia Rankine on the far-reaching impact of racism 

Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and the Body in the Healing of Trauma

Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing To Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind