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  • Online Resources
    • The Chronicle of Higher Education
    • Diverse Issues in Higher Education
    • Teaching Tolerance
    • Southern Poverty Law Center – Teaching Tolerance
    • USC Race and Equity Center
    • Equal Justice Initiative
    • The “MHP” Black Feminism Syllabus
    • A Guide to Discussing Identity, Power and Privilege
    • National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education
    • American Educational Research Association
    • American Sociological Association
    • NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education
    • White Allyship 101: Resources to Get to Work
  • Videos and Podcasts
    • 29 Movies, Shows, and Documentaries to Watch to Educate Yourself on Racial Injustice
    • TED Global 2009 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story 
    • Beverly Daniel Tatum: Why Are All of the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
    • The Muslim on the airplane | Amal Kassir | TEDxMileHighWomen
    • Scene on Radio (Season 2)
    • Code Switch
    • The Stoop Podcast
    • You had me at Black
    • Yo, Is this Racist
    • All My Relations 
    • Groundings 
    • Intersectionality Matters
  • Books
    • Adams, M., Bell, L. A., Griffin, P. (Eds.). (2007). Teaching for diversity and social justice. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis Group.

    Antiracism

      • Davis, Angela Y. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2015.
      • Kendi, Ibram X. How to be an Antiracist. New York: One World, 2019.
      • Oluo, Ijeoma. So You Want to Talk about Race. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2018.
      • Saad, Layla F. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2020.

    Autobiography and Bibliography

      • Chin, Staceyann. The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir. New York: Scribner, 2009.
      • Haley, Alex, and Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As told to Alex Haley. New York: Grove Press, 1965.
      • Jackson, George. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1994.
      • Shakur, Assata. Assata: An Autobiography. Chicago: Lawrence Hill, 2001.
      • Wilderson, Frank B., III, Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Aparetheid. Boston: Beacon Press, 2007.

    Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color Feminism

      • This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua. Albany: SUNY Press, 2015.
      • Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. London: Routledge, 2008.
      • Cooper, Brittney. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018.
      • How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017.
      • Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde. New York: Penguin Random House, 2007.
      • Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose. San Diego: Harcourt, 1983.

    Cultural Criticism

      • Abduraquib, Hanif. They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays. Columbus, OH: Two Dollar Radio, 2017. 
      • Abu-Jamal, Mumia. Live from Death Row. New York: Perennial, 1995.
      • Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. New York: Vintage International, 1993.
      • Baldwin, James. Notes of a Native Son. Boston: Beacon Press, 1955.
      • Bell, Derrick. Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. New York: Basic Books, 2018.
      • Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. Racism without Racists: Color-blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America, 2nd edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 
      • Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015.
      • DuBois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015.
      • Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. New York: Grove Press, 2008.
      • Glaude, Eddie S., Jr. Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own. New York: Random House, 2020.
      • Hartman, Saidiya. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
      • Mills, Charles W. The Racial Contract. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.
      • Roberts, Dorothy. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. New York: Vintage Books, 2017.
      • Sexton, Jared. Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiculturalism. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
      • Tatum, Beverly Daniel. Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the Cafeteria? New York: Basic Books, 1997.
      • Vitale, Alex. The End of Policing. London, UK: Verso.
      • Wilderson, Frank B. III. Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010.

    Fiction and Poetry

      • Baldwin, James. Giovanni’s Room. New York: Dial Press, 1956.
      • Coates, Ta-Nehisi. The Water Dancer. New York: Penguin Random House, 2019.
      • Hurston, Zora Neal. Their Eyes Were Watching God. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1937.
      • Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York: Alfred A. Knoph, 1987.
      • Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric. Minneapolis: Graywolf, 2014.
      • Taylor, Brandon. Real Life. New York: Penguin Random House, 2020.
      • Ward, Jesmin. Sing, Unburied, Sing. New York: Scribner, 2017.
      • Whitehead, Colson. The Underground Railroad. New York: Doubleday, 2016.
      • Wright, Richard. Native Son. New York: Harper, 1940.

    History

      • Chang, Jeff. Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. New York: Picador, 2005.
      • DuBois, W.E.B. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880. New York: Free Press, 1998.
      • Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. New York: Nation Books, 2016.
      • Ore, Ersula J. Lynching: Violence, Rhetoric, and American Identity. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019.
      • Walker, Anders. The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018.
      • Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. New York: Penguin Random House, 2011.
      • The Young Lords Reader, edited by Darrel Enck-Wanzer (now Wanzer-Serrano). New York: New York University Press, 2010.

    Public Policy and Current Events

      • Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: New Press, 2010.”
      • Morris, Monique W. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools. New York: New Press, 2016.
      • Pinckney, Darryl. Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy. New York: New York Review of Books, 2014.
      • Ritchie, Andrea J. Invisible No More: Police Violence against Black Women and Women of Color. Boston: Beacon Press, 2017.
      • Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. New York: Liveright, 2017.

    Whiteness

      • DiAngelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism. Boston: Beacon Press, 2018.
      • Du Bois, W. E. B. Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, [1920] 1999. (esp. Ch. 2, “Souls of White Folk”).
      • Eddo-Lodge, Reni. Why I Am No Longer Talking to White People About Race. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
      • Horsman, Reginald. Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.
      • Jordan, Winthrop. White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968.
      • Metzl, Jonathan M. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland. New York: Basic Books, 2019.
      • Painter, Nell Irvin. The History of White People. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
      • West, Cornel. Prophesy Deliverance!: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, [1982] 2002. (esp. Ch. 2, “A Genealogy of Modern Racism”).
      • Yancy, George. ed.  What White Looks Like: African American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question. New York and London: Routledge, 2004.

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