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If we want no more systemic inequality, institutionalized racism, environmental racism, disenfranchisement, dispossession and racial violence, then we need to know more about the histories, facts and fictions that inform those practices.
We also need to know more about how people of color have shaped the nation, advanced democracy and led movements for positive social, political, cultural and economic change.
Our resources page is by no means an exhaustive list of books, podcasts and other materials that attend to issues related to race and democracy. We hope, though, that the titles here contribute to our collective understanding of our compelling United States history and our contemporary moment.
We are glad that you are here and that you want to know more.
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Memoirs
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 |
Racial Justice, Social Justice and Anti-Racism
American History
Whiteness: History, Privilege, Fragility and Action
Trauma and Recovery
Joy Degruy, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing |
Rhonda Magee and Jon Kabat-Zinn, The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming our Communities Through Mindfulness |
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 |