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Edited By: Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa

This collection explores “the complex confluence of identities—race, class, gender, and sexuality—systemic to women of color oppression and liberation.”

By: Patricia Hill Collins

A superbly crafted book that provides the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought. | Non-Fiction

By: Andrea J. Ritchie

How BIPOC women experience racial profiling, police brutality, & immigration enforcement – demanding a radical rethinking of our visions of safety & the means we devote to achieving it.

By: Ira Katzelson

Ira Katznelson demonstrates that all the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory manner.

By: Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens, with Jasmine Syedullah, PhD

Radical Dharma recasts the concepts of engaged spirituality, social transformation, inclusiveness, and healing.

By: Ibram X. Kendi

In shedding much-needed light on the murky history of racist ideas, Stamped from the Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose them—and in the process, gives us reason to hope.

By: Dick Gregory

This collection of essays explores historical movements such as the Great Migration & the Harlem Renaissance, as well as cultural touchstones, such as Billie Holiday’s haunting delivery of “Strange...

By: Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD

This fully revised edition is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of race in America. | Non-Fiction

By: Tim Wise

Offering a look back at the race-based white entitlement programs that built the American middle class, & how white privilege continues to perpetuate racial inequality and race-driven political resentments.

By: Richard Rothstein

Argues with exacting precision and fascinating insight how segregation in America is the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state, and federal levels. | Non-Fiction

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

The dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on black bodied generations of women, men, & children – and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. / Fiction

By: Howard Zinn

Chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught in schools—with its emphasis on great men in high places—to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace.

By: Robin DiAngelo

Written as an accessible introduction to white identity from an anti-racist framework, Dr. DiAngelo clearly and compellingly takes readers through an analysis of white socialization.

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? | Non-Fiction

By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Offering a more than 400-year history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.

By: Audre Lorde

Over and over again, in the essays, speeches and poems collected in Your Silence Will Not Protect You, Lorde emphasises how important it is to speak up. | Non-Fiction

By: bell hooks

With her trademark candor and fierce intelligence, Bell Hooks answers the most common concerns of men, such as fear of intimacy and loss of their patriarchal place in society. | Non-fiction

By: Carol Anderson

Compelling and dramatic in the unimpeachable history it relates, White Rage adds an important new dimension to the national conversation about race in America. | Non-Fiction

By: adrienne maree brown

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? | Non-Fiction

By: Michelle Alexander

A stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the U.S., one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars & then relegated to a permanent second-class status.

By: Ibram X. Kendi

Weaving together an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science–including the story of his own awakening to antiracism–bringing it all together in a cogent, accessible form.

By: Layla F. Saad

A 28-Day challenge of understanding one’s white privilege & participation in WB Supremacy, in order to stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on BIPOC peoples, & help other white people...

By: Ijoema Oluo

A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today’s racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that listeners of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide.

By: Robin DiAngelo

Exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.

By: Resmaa Menakem

The first self-help book to examine WB Supremacy in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology – addressing racialized trauma on a somatic and personal level.

Article by: Sarah Bellamy | The Paris Review (June 8, 2020)

Inviting white bodied Americans to examine their cultural shaping & embodied responses when confronted w/ Black joy, Black rage, Black power, Black brilliance, & Black resilience in the world.

Article by: Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)

This autobiographical embodied narrative discusses how American identity and citizenship are construed in White Bodied Culture and policy.

Article by: Ta Nehisi Coates | Atlantic (June 2014)

Focuses on the economic impact of slavery, Jim Crow segregation, & federally-backed housing policy – black bodied Americans were prevented from building wealth or passing it on to later generations.

Article by: Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)

Through the lens of racial equity and social justice, Sewer exposes how the United States confronted the Covid-19 pandemic under the Trump administration – and it’s impact on brown and black...

Article by: Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)

Kendi describes the weaponization of white fear and what he refers to as “racist terror” to be the cause behind the inhumane systematic killing of Black men like Ahmaud Arbery.
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