There are many ways to engage in the learning journey for Racial Justice.

Racial justice learning is a life-long journey.

We believe that it is important to learn, and deepen practices for justice in community with others. There is also a lot of learning that can be done through connecting with the voices, perspectives, and resources about racial justice that are available to you.

What follows is a list of resources that we believe will support your individual learning process. This is not an exhaustive list of resources available, but they are a good starting place.

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Videos:

Reports & Articles:

Articles

Reports

Books:

  • Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude

  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People and its Relevance Today by Jacqueline Battalora

  • Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa

  • Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry

  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

  • The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

  • Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance by Edgar Villanueva

  • A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki

  • Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Haney Lopez

  • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown

  • The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

  • Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019  edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain

  • From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  • Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob

  • Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

  • How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

  • How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  • An Indigenous People’s’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  • The Inner Work of Racial Justice by Rhonda V. Magee

  • Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

  • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad

  • My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

  • Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill

  • Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano

  • Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

  • A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

  • Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy DeGruy

  • Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society by john a. powell

  • Racism without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva 

  • Radical Dharma by Rev. angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens, and Jasmine Syedullah

  • Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America  by Rich Benjamin

  • See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valerie Kaur

  • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

  • So You Want to Talk About Race by  Ijeoma Oluo (**this book is a great place to start a racial justice learning journey**)

  • The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison

  • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

  • The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee

  • Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson

  • The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

  • We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba

  • We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love

  • When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors

Additional ways the Race & Gender Equity team can support your learning journey:

Learning in Community

We offer learning experiences for individuals in the community to come together with others to engage in learning and unlearning around the system of racial inequity, and what we need to do to transform our society for justice. Learn more information about our Racial Justice Series.

We also offer the opportunity to learn in community, through our Racial Justice Summit. Each year, we host a Racial Justice conference that brings together people and organizations committed to learning about institutional racism and to build an ongoing practice of working for racial justice.

Learning with your Organization

Through our Creating Equitable Organizations program, we support organizations on the journey of transformation for equity that centers racial justice in the organizational culture.