Unsure about where to start educating away the racism that America has ingrained into our DNA? These tools are resource rich resources that facilitate critical reflection of assumptions you probably didn’t even realize you made. They tackle criminal justice, the Black experience in America, and so much more. If you’re open to it, this literature could be the start of a beautifully evolving you. Consider, if you get the chance, LISTENING to “Between The World & Me” and “Just Mercy”! Hearing the words read by Ta-Nehisi & Bryan is SO rewarding…also those two were my favs. Between The World & Me was the first time I felt seen in literature. I invite you to message me (either here or on one of my social media platforms) with resources you think can add to this list!
The Aspiring Anti-Racist Book List:
- Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- White Fragility By Robin Diangelo
- Just Mercy By Bryan Stevenson
- White Rage By Carol Anderson
- The Color of Law By Richard Rothstein
- Slavery By Another Name By Douglas Blackmon
- Been In The Storm So Long By Leon Litwack
- Remembering Slavery Edited By Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, & Steven F. Miller
- Talking To Strangers By Malcolm Gladwell
- The New Jim Crow By Michelle Alexander
- Push Out By Monique Morris
- How To Be An Anti-Racist By Ibram X. Kendi
- Stamped By Ibram X. Kendi
- The Half Has Never Been Told By Edward Baptist
- Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Davis
- When Affirmative Action Was White By Ira Katz Nelson
- In The Courts of The Conqueror By Walter R. Echo-Hawk
- Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together By Beverly D. Tatum
- The Fire Next Time By James Baldwin
- White American Youth By Christian Picciolini
- Race Against Time By Jerry Mitchell
- A Colony In A Nation By Chris Hayes
- Doing Justice By Preet Bahara
- They Were Her Property By Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
- The History of White People By Nell Irvin Painter
- We Were Eight Years In Power By Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Man-Not By Tommy Curry
- Race Matters By Cornel West
- The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
- Barracoon By Zora Neale Hurston
- Rights Talk By Mary Ann Glendon
- The Alchemy of Race & Rights By Patricia J. Williams
- Killing the Black Body By Dorothy Roberts
- Fatal Invention By Dorothy Roberts
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Aspiring Anti-Racist Documentary List:
- 13th On Netflix
- Slavery By Another Name on PBS
- Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome on Youtube
- I Am Not Your Negro on Amazon Prime
- The Kalief Browder Story on Netflix
- Traces of The Trade
- Crime and Punishment on Hulu
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