Historical Narratives & Origins of Race
📖 A People’s History of the United States — Howard Zinn
📖 Anti-Racism in US History: The First 200 Years — Herbert Aptheker
📖 Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America, 1619-1962 — LeRone Bennett
📖 Europe and the People Without History — Eric R. Wolf
📖 The White Man’s Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in America — Winthrop D. Jordan
Critical Race Theory & Analysis
📖 Critical Race Theory: An Introduction — Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic
📖 Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism — Derek Bell
📖 Race Matters in Child Welfare — Dennette Derezotes et al.
📖 The Souls of Black Folk — W.E.B. DuBois
Systemic Analysis & Social Policy
📖 Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality — Oliver & Shapiro
📖 Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations — Joe R. Feagin
📖 Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color — Robert Bullard (Ed.)
📖 The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide — Meizhu Lui et al.
Law, Criminal Justice, and Incarceration
📖 Race-Based Judgments, Race-Neutral Justifications — Samuel Sommers & Michael Norton
📖 Reducing Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System — The Sentencing Project
📖 Slavery By Another Name (Book & Documentary) — Douglas Blackmon
📖 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness — Michelle Alexander
📖 White By Law: The Legal Construction of Race — Ian Haney Lopez
Education and Pedagogy
📖 Are Teachers’ Expectations Different For Racial Minority Than For European American Students? — Journal of Educational Psychology
📖 Beyond Heroes and Holidays — Enid Lee et al.
📖 Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong — James Loewen
📖 Pedagogy of the Oppressed — Paulo Freire
📖 White Awareness: Handbook for Anti-racism Training — Judith Katz
Health and Social Outcomes
📖 Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth and Social Policy in America — Dalton Conley
📖 Multiple Pathways Linking Racism to Health Outcomes — CJ Harrell et al.
📖 Reducing Racial and Social-Class Inequalities in Health — S. Leonard Syme
📖 Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? (Documentary) — California Newsreel
Implicit Bias, Discrimination, and Stereotypes
📖 Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? — Marianne Bertrand & Sendhil Mullainathan
📖 Blind Spot: The Hidden Biases of Good People — Mahzarin Banaji & Anthony Greenwald
📖 Implicit Bias: Scientific Foundations — A.G. Greenwald & L. H. Krieger
📖 Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do — Claude Steele
Economic Inequality and Labor Discrimination
📖 Forty Million Dollar Slaves — William C. Rhoden
📖 The Hidden Cost of Being African-American — Thomas Shapiro
📖 The Color of Discipline: Sources of Racial and Gender Disproportionality in School Punishment — R. Skiba et al.
Identity, Race, and Cultural Representation
📖 Black and White Styles in Conflict — Thomas Kochman
📖 How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America — Karen Brodkin
📖 How the Irish Became White — Noel Ignatiev
📖 The Possessive Investment in Whiteness — George Lipsitz
📖 Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White — David Roediger
Native American and Indigenous Studies
📖 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West — Dee Brown
📖 The State of Native American Genocide, Colonization & Resistance — M. Annette Jaimes
📖 From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii — Haunani-Kay Trask
Intersectionality: Gender, Race, and Class
📖 Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty — Dorothy Roberts
📖 When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America — Paula Giddings
📖 Women, Race, and Class — Angela Davis
📖 Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery — bell hooks
Activism and Social Justice
📖 Becoming an Anti-Racist Church — Joseph Barndt
📖 Reluctant Reformers: Racism and Social Reform Movements in the United States — Robert L. Allen
📖 Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice — Paul Kivel
📖 You Call This A Democracy: Who Benefits, Who Pays and Who Really Decides? — Paul Kivel