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This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work (Tiffany Jewell)
Although written as a YA book, this is for adults as well. It asks questions:
Who are you?
What is your identity?
What is racism?
How do you choose your own path?
How do you stand in solidarity?
How can you hold yourself accountable?
Learn about identities, true histories, and anti-racism work in 20 carefully laid out chapters. Written by anti-bias, anti-racist, educator and activist, Tiffany Jewell, and illustrated by French illustrator Aurélia Durand.
(Racial Justice)
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements (Charlene Carruthers)
This book offers a vision for how social justice movements can become sharper and more effective through principled struggle, healing justice, and leadership development.
(Intersectionality) (Racial Justice)
Uncommon Common Ground (Angela Glover Blackwell)
This is is an important book on several levels. It provides intelligent policy analysis regarding the powerful demographic trends and multi-decade data projections that display the reconfiguring of this nation's ethnic and cultural character.
(Identity and Community)
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Carol Anderson)
From the Civil War to our combustible present, White Rage reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to Black progress in America.
(Racial Justice)
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color (Ruby Hamad)
An historical and cultural criticism that argues that white feminism, from Australia to Zimbabwe to the United States, has been a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against black and indigenous women, and all women of color.
(Intersectionality) (Racial Justice)
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Beverly Tatum)
Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication across racial and ethnic divides.
These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious.
(Racial Justice)
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Reni Eddo-Lodge)
Exploring issues from eradicated black history to the political purpose of white dominance, whitewashed feminism to the inextricable link between class and race, Reni Eddo-Lodge offers a timely and essential new framework for how to see, acknowledge and counter racism. Although she is British and centers racism in the UK, her writing applies to the racism in the US and in other countries as well.
(Racial Justice)
Say It Louder!: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy (Tiffany Cross)
Tiffany Cross explores the role that African Americans have played in shaping the United States while offering concrete information to help harness the electoral power of the country’s rising majority and exposing political forces aligned to subvert and suppress Black voters.
(Racial Justice)
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (Joy DeGruy)
While African Americans managed to emerge from chattel slavery and the oppressive decades that followed with great strength and resilience, they did not emerge unscathed.
Slavery produced centuries of physical, psychological and spiritual injury. lays the groundwork for understanding how the past has influenced the present, and opens up the discussion of how we can use the strengths we have gained to heal.
(Racial Justice)
One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race (Yaba Blay)
One Drop explores the extent to which historical definitions of race continue to shape contemporary racial identities and lived experiences of racial difference. It is through contributors' lived experiences with and lived imaginings of Black identity that we can visualize multiple possibilities for Blackness.
(Racial Justice)