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Here are some recommended articles and books that will help to educate you further. Before purchasing any books, please check out this list of Black owned bookstores.
Articles
The 1619 Project Nikole Hannah Jones, The New York Times
Anti-Racist Checklist for Whites Robin DiAngelo, 2016
A Critique of "Our Constitution Is Color-Blind.” Neil Gotanda, 1991
The Case for Reparations Ta-Nehisi Coates
Civil Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2017
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics Kimberle Crenshaw, 1989
Killing Us Softly: Navigating State and State-Sanctioned Violence Against Black Men’s Humanity Charles H.F. Davis III, Keon A. McGuire
Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought Patricia Hill Collins, 1986
On Trans Dissemblance: Or, Why Trans Studies Needs Black Feminism Varun Chaudhry, 2020
Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory Angela P. Harris, 1990
Race without Racism: How Higher Education Researchers Minimize Racist Institutional Norms Shaun Harper, 2012
Spirit-Murdering the Messenger: The Discourse of Fingerpointing as the Law's Response to Racism Patricia Williams, 1987
The Subtle Linguistics of White Supremacy Yawo Brown, 2015
Welcome To The Anti-Racism Movement — Here’s What You’ve Missed Ijeoma Oluo, 2017
White Fragility and the Rules of Engagement Robin Diangelo, 2015
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Peggy McIntosh, 1989
Whiteness as Property Cheryl Harris, 1993
Who’s Afraid of Critical Race Theory? Derrick A. Bell, 1995
Who Gets To Be Afraid in America? Ibram X. Kendi
The Year I Gave Up White Comfort: An Ode to my White “Friends” on Being Better to Black Womxn Rachel Ricketts, 2019
Books
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander
Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy Barbara Applebaum
The Fire Next Time James Baldwin
Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Unapologetic: A Black, Queen, and Feminist Mandae for Radical Movements Charlene A. Carruthers
Queenie Candace Carty-Williams
Other Side of Paradise Staceyann Chin
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower Brittney Cooper
Women, Race, & Class Angela Y. Davis
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond
White Fragility: Why Its So Hard for White People to Talk About Race Robin DiAngelo
The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. Du Bois
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
For White Folks Who Teach In The Hood… And the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education Christopher Emdin
Bad Feminist Roxane Gay
Homegoing Yaa Gyasi
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America Melissa Harris-Perry
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment Patricia Hill Collins
Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism Bell Hooks
Killing Rage: Ending Racism Bell Hooks
Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions Tiffany Jana, Michael Baran
No Tea, No Shade. New Writings in Black Queer Studies E. Patrick Johnson
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in 20th Century America Ira Katznelson
Stamped from the Beginning Ibram X Kendi
How to be an Anti-Racist Ibram X Kendi
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, From Furgeson to Flint and Beyond Marc Lamont Hill
March (Graphic Novel) John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Teacher Got Wrong James Loewen
Sister Outsider Audre Lorde
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, A Biomythography Audre Lorde
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Summer We Got Free Mia Mckenzie
Dying of Whiteness: How The Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland Jonathan Metzel
Coming of Age in Mississippi Anne Moody
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America Darnell L. Moore
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools Monique W. Morris
Student Activism, Politics, and Campus Climate in Higher Education Demetri L. Morgan, Charles H.F. Davis III
Beloved Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America Khalil Gilbran Muhammad
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Born a Crime: Stories From A South African Childhood Trevor Noah
Becoming Michelle Obama
So You Want To Talk About Race Ijeoma Oluo
Since I Laid my Burden Down Brontez Purnell
Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses Lawrence Ross
The Color of Law Richard Rothstein
Me and White Supremacy Layla F. Saad
Assata, an Autobiography Assata Shakur
Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America Ronald Takaki
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together In the Cafeteria? Beverly Daniel Tatum
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Keeanga-Yamahtta
Taylor Real Life Brandon Taylor
The Hate You Give Angie Thomas
In Search of Our Mothers Gardens Alice Walker
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America Anders Walker
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Harriet A. Washington
The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson
Native Son Richard Wright
A People’s History of the United States Howard Zinn