Racial Justice Resources

Books

• White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
• So you want to talk about race, Ijeoma Oluo
• Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, Robert Putnam
• Race Matters, Cornell West
• Conspiracy of Kindness, Steve Sjoren
• Embracing the Value of Diversity Conversations, Eric Ellis
• Racism in the United States: Implications for the Helping Professions, Joshua L. Miller, Ann Marie Garran
• Racism Without Racists: Color-blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
• 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
• Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America, F. Michael Higginbotham
• The Violence of Hate: Confronting Racism, Anti-semitism, and Other Forms of Bigotry, Jack Levin, Jim Nolan
• Waking Up White, Debby Irving
• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, J.D. Vance
• Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
• Jane Elliot’s Bibliography  
• Books by Tim Wise
• Racial Justice Books

Websites

• The Power of Illusion
• Systemic Inequality
• Racial Economic Inequality

Articles

• Ibram X. Kendi article on why love and education won’t solve racism
• A Conversation with White People on Race
• GI Bill and racism
• School to Prison Pipeline
• Prison Reform

Podcasts

• Seeing White
• Speaking of Racism

Videos

• Slavery to Mass Incarceration
• Allegories on race and racism
• Adam Foss: A prosecutor’s vision for a better justice system
• Eye of the Storm

Documentaries

• 13th
• When they See Us

Assessments on Racial Equity

Anti-Racism Organizational Development

21 Day Challenge (YWCA Cleveland)