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BOOKS
Here’s some books and authors that I’ve found helpful in growing my understanding of race and racism and in my examination of whiteness (note, this list is loosely categorized and the books are listed in no particular order).
Books: Text
THAT CENTER VOICES, STORIES AND LIVED EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN MARGINALIZED
So you want to talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo
Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
I’m still here Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
How To Be Black by Baratunde Thurston
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
How the word is passed by Clint Smith
All the white friends I couldn’t keep by Andre Henry
Surviving the White Gaze by Rebecca Carroll
Ain’t I a Woman? by bell hooks
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki
Books: List
ABOUT HOW WHITE PEOPLE CAME TO BE, WHITENESS, THE HISTORY OF RACE AND THE EFFECTS OF RACIALIZATION IN THE US
The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
White Rage by Carol Anderson
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
White Trash. The 400 Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
White Kids by Margaret A. Hagerman
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan M. Metzi
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi (or the remix Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi & Jason Reynolds)
Books: List
THAT OFFER GUIDANCE FOR NEXT STEPS
What White People Can Do Next by Emma Dabiri
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
My Grandmothers Hands by Resmaa Menakem
After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging by Willie James Jennings
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
How To Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, And The Racial Divide by Crystal M. Fleming
Books: List
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