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This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color

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.”

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Black Feminist Thought

By: Patricia Hill Collins

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

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Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color

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.

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When Affirmative Action was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America

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.

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Radical Dharma

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.

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Stamped From the Beginning: A History of Racist Ideas

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.

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Defining Moments In Black History

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...

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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

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

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White Like Me

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.

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The Color of Law

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

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The Water Dancer

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

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A People's History of the United States

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.

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What Does it Mean to Be White?

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.

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Between the World and Me

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

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An Indigenous People's History of the United States

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.

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Your Silence Will Not Protect You

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

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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

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

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White Rage

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

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Pleasure Activism: the Politics of Feeling Good

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

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The New Jim Crow

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.

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How to Be an Antiracist

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.

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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, & Become a Good Ancestor

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...

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So You Want To Talk About Race?

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.

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White Fragility

By: Robin DiAngelo

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

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My Grandmother's Hands : Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts & Bodies

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.

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"Performing Whiteness"

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.

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”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant”

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.

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"A Case for Reparations"

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.

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“America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us”

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...

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“Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?”

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.