Books
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That A Movement Forgot (Mikki Kendall)
Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. All too often, however, the focus is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few. That feminists refuse to prioritize these issues has only exacerbated the age-old problem of both internecine discord and women who rebuff at carrying the title.
(Identity and Community) (Racial Justice)
How to Be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi)
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it.
(Racial Justice)
Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change (Stacey Abrams)
Lead from the Outside is a necessary guide to harnessing the strengths of being an outsider.
(Identity and Community) (Organizational Culture)
Me and White Supremacy (Layla F. Saad)
Layla F. Saad published a workbook of the same name for free that was downloaded by over 80,000 people. It is a challenge in which you do a reading and then write about it every day, privately.
(Racial Justice)
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America (Ijeoma Oluo)
After the election of Donald Trump, and the escalation of white male rage and increased hostility toward immigrants that came with him, Ijeoma Oluo found herself in conversation with Americans around the country, pondering one central question: How did we get here?
(Racial Justice)
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Resmaa Menakem)
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of body-centered psychology. He argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies.
My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.
My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.
(Identity and Community) (Racial Justice)
This memoir written by a white women unpacks her experiences with understanding race, bias, stereotypes, manners, and tolerance.
(Racial Justice) (Identity and Community)