Anti-racism Reading List

Acuna, R. F. (2014). Occupied America: A History of Chicanos. New York, NY: Pearson.

Adams, M., Bell, L. A., Goodman, D. J., Joshi K. Y (Ed.). (2016). Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook for Teachers and Trainers (Vol 3). New York, NY: Routledge.

Adams, M., Blumenfeld, W. J., Catalano, D. C. J., DeJong, K. S., Hackman, H. W., Hopkins, L. E., Love, B. J., Peters, M. L., Shlasko, D., Zuniga, X (Ed.). (2018). Readings for Diversity and Social Justice: An Anthology on Racism, Sexism, Classism, Anti-Semitism, Heterosexism, and Ableism (Vol 4). New York, NY: Routledge.

Adichie, C. N. (2014). We Should All Be Feminists. New York, NY: Penguin Random House Company.

Alexander, M. (2012). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in The Age of Colorblindness. New York, NY: The New Press.

Anderson, C. (2017). White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Baldwin, J. (1985). The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press.

Coates, T. (2015). Between the World and Me. New York, NY: Spiegel & Grau.

Davis, A. Y. (2016). Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books.

DiAngelo, R. (2018). White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Race. Boston, MA: Beacon Press Books.

Feagin, J. (2001). Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations. New York, NY: Routledge.

Flynn, J. (2018). White Fatigue: Rethinking Resistance for Social Justice. New York, NY: Lang.

Freire, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York, NY: Continuum.

Goodman, D. J. (2011). Promoting Diversity and Social Justice. New York, NY: Routledge.

hooks, b. (1994). Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York, NY: Routledge.

Khan-Cullors, P., bandele, a. (2017). When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. New York, NY: St. Martin’s.

Kendi, I. X. (2019). How To Be An Anti-Racist. London: One World.

Kendi, I. X. (2016). Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. New York, NY: Nation Books.

King, T. (2012). The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Loewen, J. W. (2018). Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. New York, NY: The New Press.

Mock, J. (2014). Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood. New York, NY: Atria.

Moraga, C., Anzaldua, G. (Ed). (2015). This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. New York, NY: State University of New York Press.

Oluo, I. (2019). So You Want to Talk About Race. New York, NY: Hachette Book Group.

Saad, L. F. (2020). Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks.

Sensoy, O., DiAngelo, R. (2017). Is Everyone Really Equal?: An Introduction to Social Justice Education. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

Suarez-Orozco, M. (Ed). (2008). Latinos: Remaking America. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Tatum, B. (2017). Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race. New York, NY: Hachette Book Group.

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