Books
An Antiracist Reading List - Ibram X. Kendi on books to help America transcend its racist heritage.
An in-depth list of books on E&I's Read, Watch, Listen
Racism in America - A Reader. Foreward by Annette Gordon-Reed. Harvard University Press
Dismantling Racism One Book at a Time. Fordham Press
Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List for Adults Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
14 Books for a More Inclusive Look at American History. Book Riot
8 Historical Books to Understand Current Social Justice Movements Book Riot
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 - Edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
Caste. The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns. The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
The Sum of Us - What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
Racing to Justice. Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society by john a. powell
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Just Mercy. The Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Heavy. An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
Women Race & Class by Angela Davis
White Fragility. Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo
Mediocre. The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Whistling Vivaldi. How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele
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 Heartbeat of Wounded Knee. Native America From 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
Lakota America. A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hamalainen
A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement by Ken Blansett
How We Go Home. Voices from Indigenous North America Edited by Sara Sinclair
The Making of Asian America. A History by Erika Lee
The Dead Are Arising. The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
“Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification,” by David Waldstreicher
“The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America,” by Gerald Horne
“Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution,” by Jack N. Rakove
“A Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic,” by George William Van Cleve
“The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution,” by Michael J. Klarman
“The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763 to 1789,” by Robert Middlekauff
“Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia,” by Woody Holton
“Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789 to 1815,” by Gordon S. Wood
“Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation,” by Nicholas Guyatt
“The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution,” by Robert G. Parkinson
“The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution,” by Bernard Bailyn
“The Radicalism of the American Revolution,” by Gordon S. Wood
“Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World,” by Maya Jasanoff
“Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787 to 1788,” by Pauline Maier
“Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America,” by Linda K. Kerber
“American Taxation, American Slavery,” by Robin L. Einhorn
“Water From the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age,” by Sylvia R. Frey
“The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788 to 1828,” by Saul Cornell
“Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation,” edited by Alfred F. Young, Gary B. Nash and Ray Raphael
Articles and Other Writings
Reparations are gaining mainstream support, and are a solution(link is external)
Why Juneteenth is a celebration of hope(link is external)
5 things people still get wrong about slavery(link is external)
Ex-Slaves talk about Slavery in the USA(link is external)
How the legacy of slavery affects the mental health of black Americans today(link is external)
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. How Is It Different From PTSD?(link is external)
The US medical system is still haunted by slavery(link is external)
Tulsa's Black Wall Street massacre(link is external)
Mass Incarceration: Envisioning A Moral Future, Featuring Michelle Alexander(link is external)
The Role Publishing Plays in the Commodification of Black Pain(link is external)
The Great Fire(link is external) – Guest Edited by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair
Asians must be a part of our story, too(link is external) by john a. powell
Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype. And It Creates Inequality for All(link is external) by Viet Thannh Nguyen, Time Magazine
The Muddled History of Anti-Asian Violence (link is external)by Hua Hsu; The New Yorker
The time James Baldwin told UC Berkeley that Black lives matter(link is external) Ivan Natividad, Berkeley News
Colleges Must Take a New Approach to Systemic Racism(link is external). Inside Higher Ed
Don’t Rely on Black Faculty to Do the Antiracist Work(link is external). Inside Higher Ed
Combating Anti-Blackness in the AI Community(link is external) by Devin Guillory
The Case for Reparations(link is external) by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The Atlantic
“Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge(link is external),” by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Los Angeles Times
Allyship (& Accomplice): The What, Why, and How(link is external) by Michelle Kim | Medium (November 10, 2019)
We're in a moment of collective trauma. But there are glimmers of hope(link is external) by john a. powell | Othering & Belonging Institute (June 2, 2020)
“Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?”(link is external) by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
Letter From Oakland: Black Motherhood in Sleepless Times(link is external) by Idrissa Simmonds-Nastili. Literary Hub
The assumptions of white privilege and what we can do about it(link is external) by Bryan Massingale
To Dismantle Systemic Racism, White People Must Be Willing to Give Up Their Power(link is external) by Alicia Sheares
103 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice(link is external) by Corinne Shutack (August 2017)
Don’t Talk about Implicit Bias Without Talking about Structural Racism (PDF)(link is external) (June 13, 2019 )
Colleges Must Take a New Approach to Systemic Racism(link is external) - Inside Higher Ed
5 Powerful Ways to take REAL Action on DEI(link is external). Center for Creative Leadership