Racial Justice Resources

Books

• Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X Kendi and Keisha Blain
• The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
• How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
• The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America
  by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
• Waking Up White by Debby Irving
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sorin
• Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
• Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
• Race Matters, Cornell West
• Racism Without Racists: Color-blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
• Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America, F. Michael Higginbotham
• Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
• The Violence of Hate: Confronting Racism, Anti-semitism, and Other Forms of Bigotry, Jack Levin, Jim Nolan

Textbooks

• Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race 6th Edition, Ashley Montagu
• Racism in the United States: Implications for the Helping Professions, Joshua L. Miller, Ann Marie Garran
• Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader, Routledge Student Readers, Les Back, John Solomos, Editors
• Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, Paul Kivel
• Diversity Conversations, Eric Ellis
• In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process: The Colonial Period,  A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.

Book Lists

• Jane Elliot’s Bibliography  
• Books by Tim Wise
• Racial Justice Books
• Coretta Scott King Book Wards Winners (Books for Children and Tweens)
• Latinx Children’s Books

Websites

• The Power of Illusion
• Systemic Inequality
• Racial Economic Inequality
• Teaching Tolerance – Resources for Educators
• Mental Health Resources for Young People of Color
• Black-Owned Businesses

Articles

• How to Protect Your Mental Health While Fighting Racial Injustice
• What so many get wrong about racism in the workplace
• Addressing Disparities in Finance for Black and African Americans
• Black Women and the Wealth Gap: Best Cities to Flourish Financially
• A Study: Do Communities of Color Pay More for Car Insurance?
• Ibram X. Kendi article on why love and education won’t solve racism
• A Conversation with White People on Race
• Who Pays: The True Cost of Incarceration on Families
• GI Bill and racism
• School to Prison Pipeline
• The Weaponization of Whiteness in Schools
• Six Truths About Racism That White Teachers Must Know
• Prison Reform
• Racial Trauma in Film: How Viewers Can Address Re-traumatization
• Shopping While Black/Racial Profiling In American Retail
• Public Health Resources for Understanding Environmental Racism