Suggested Reading

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

— Nelson Mandela

TITLE	AUTHOR
The New Jim Crow	Michelle Alexander
The Color of Law	Richard Rothstein
Between the World and Me	Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Fire Next Time	James Baldwin
The Beautiful Struggle	Ta-Nehisi Coates
Just Mercy	Bryan Stevenson
Tears We Cannot Stop A Sermon to White America	Michael Eric Dyson
Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War ll Caste	Douglas A. Blackmon Isabel Wilkerson
Black Like Me	John Howard Griffin
“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Ident	Beverly Daniel Tatum
They Can’t Kill Us All	Wesley Lowery
The Fire Next Time	James Baldwin
White Fragility – Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism	Robin DiAngelo
White Like Me Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do	Tim Wise Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Ain’t I A Women: Black Women and Feminism	Bell Hooks
Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America	Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America	Ibram X. Kendi
Four Hundred Souls: A community History of African America 1619-2019 Stamped – Racism, Antiracism and You (A Stamped from the Beginning remix) How to be an Antiracist	Ibram X. Kendi Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi Ibram X. Kendi
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow	Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration	Isabel Wilkerson

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