Race and Racism Reading and Education

This list is not meant to be exhaustive, rather a living document of popular and important suggestions

America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis
Anxious to Talk About It: Helping White Christians Talk Faithfully about Racism by Carolyn B. Helsel
Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today by Jacqueline Battalora
Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority by Tim Wise
Dear White Christian by Aaron J. Layton
How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections from an Angry White Male by Tim Wise
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege by Robert Jensen
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness by George Lipsitz
Towards the “Other America” by Chris Crass
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
Waking Up White by Debby Irving
What Does it Mean to Be White: Developing White Racial Literacy by Robin DiAngelo
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise
White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism by Paula S. Rothenberg
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson

Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R Banaji and Anthony G Greenwald
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum

A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America by Langston Hughes
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn
Black Cloud Rising by David Wright Falade
Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity by Tim Wise
“Letter From Birmingham Jail” by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got by James W. Loewen
Race Matters by Cornel West
Racial Justice and the Catholic Church by Bryan Massingale
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Why We Can’t Wait by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Criminal Justice

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Housing

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

Education

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Y’All Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education by Christopher Emdin
The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson

Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee
The Other Slavery by Andrés Reséndez
Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America’s Poor by Kenneth Neubeck and Noel Cazenave

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