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How to Be An Antiracist: Suggested Resources

This guide will provide links to resources for faculty who wish to integrate the fall 2020 One Book, How to Be An Antiracist, into their classes.

Suggested Books -- Additional Readings

Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R Banaji and Anthony G Greenwald
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Raising Our Hands: How White Women Can Stop Avoiding Hard Conversations, Start Accepting Responsibility, and Find Our Place on the New Frontlines by Jenna Arnold
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race edited by Jesmyn Ward
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum