Suggested Readings

Updated January 2021

• White Fragility: Why It's so Hard for People to Talk About Racism
  Robin DiAngelo
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
  Joy DeGruy
• Between the World and Me
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Learning to be White: Money, Race and God in America
  Thandeka
• White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism
  Ashley W. Doane and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
• Color-Blind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity
  Tim Wise
• The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege
  Robert Jensen
• White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
  Tim Wise
• Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk about Race and How to Do It
  Shelly Tochluk
• Privilege, Power and Difference
  Allan G. Johnson
• Let's Get Real: What People of Color Can't Say and Whites Won't Ask About Racism
  Lee Mun Wah
• Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
  James W. Loewen
• Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority
  Tim Wise
• Beyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to K-12 Anti-Racist, Multicultural Education and Staff Development
  Enid Lee, Deborah Menkart, Margo Okazawa-Rey
• Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World
  Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson
• 40 Ways to Raise a Nonracist Child
  Barbara Mathias and Mary Ann French
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
  Michelle Alexander
• Is Everyone Really Equal? An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education
  Ozlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo
• What Does it Mean to be White? Developing White Racial Literacy
  Robin DiAngelo
• Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
  Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
• Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society
  John A. Powell
• Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
  Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
• Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
  Paul Kivel
• "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" And Other Conversations about Race
  Beverly Daniel Tatum
• RIP Jim Crow: Fighting Racism Through Higher Education Policy, Curriculum and Cultural Interventions
  Virginia Steed
• White Man's Heaven: The Lynching and Expulsion of Blacks in the Southern Ozarks, 1894-1909
  Kimberly Harper

Children's Books

• A Kid's Book About Racism
  Jelani Memory
• The Name Jar
  Yangsook Choi
• Chocolate Me!
  Taye Diggs
• Let's Talk About Race
  Julius Lester
• Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth
  Ann Rockwell
• Cool Cuts
  Mechal Renee Roe
• Abuela
  Arthur Dorros
• Bintou's Braids
  Sylvianne Diouf
• And Tango Makes Three
  Justin Richardson
• Sitti's Secrets
  Naomi Shihab Nye
• Frog Girl
  Paul Owen Lewis
• Hush! A Thai Lullaby
  Minfong Ho, Holly Meade
• Through My Eyes
  Ruby Bridges
• What if the Zebras Lost Their Stripes?
  John Reitano
• The First Strawberries: A Cherokee Story
  Joseph Bruchac
• Shaking Things Up: 14 Women Change the World
  Susan Hood
• Mixed Me!
  Taye Diggs
• Before She Was Harriet
  Lesa Cline-Ransome
• Happy to be Nappy
  Bell Hooks
• Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad
  James Rumford
• Little Humans
  Brandon Stanton
• In My Family
  Carmen Lomas Garza
• Skin Again
  Bell Hooks
• One Big Heart
  Linsey Davis
• Shadow
  Blaise Cendrars
• One Love: Based on the Song by Bob Marley
  Cedella Marley