Books
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Resmaa Menakem)
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of body-centered psychology. He argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies.
My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.
My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.
(Identity and Community) (Racial Justice)
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America (Ijeoma Oluo)
After the election of Donald Trump, and the escalation of white male rage and increased hostility toward immigrants that came with him, Ijeoma Oluo found herself in conversation with Americans around the country, pondering one central question: How did we get here?
(Racial Justice)
Me and White Supremacy (Layla F. Saad)
Layla F. Saad published a workbook of the same name for free that was downloaded by over 80,000 people. It is a challenge in which you do a reading and then write about it every day, privately.
(Racial Justice)
Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change (Stacey Abrams)
Lead from the Outside is a necessary guide to harnessing the strengths of being an outsider.
(Identity and Community) (Organizational Culture)
How to Be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi)
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it.
(Racial Justice)
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That A Movement Forgot (Mikki Kendall)
Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. All too often, however, the focus is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few. That feminists refuse to prioritize these issues has only exacerbated the age-old problem of both internecine discord and women who rebuff at carrying the title.
(Identity and Community) (Racial Justice)
Freedom is A Constant Struggle (Angela Y. Davis)
In this collection of essays, interviews, and speeches, the renowned activist examines today’s issues—from Black Lives Matter to prison abolition and more.
(Racial Justice) (Gender Justice)
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Isabel Wilkerson)
Wilkerson compares the epic migration of Black Americans to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
(Racial Justice)
The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--and How We Can Fix (Dorothy Brown)
In The Whiteness of Wealth, Brown draws on decades of cross-disciplinary research to show that tax law isn’t as color-blind as she’d once believed. She takes us into her adopted city of Atlanta, introducing us to families across the economic spectrum whose stories demonstrate how American tax law rewards the preferences and practices of white people while pushing black people further behind.
(Racial Justice)
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work (Tiffany Jewell)
Although written as a YA book, this is for adults as well. It asks questions:
Who are you?
What is your identity?
What is racism?
How do you choose your own path?
How do you stand in solidarity?
How can you hold yourself accountable?
Learn about identities, true histories, and anti-racism work in 20 carefully laid out chapters. Written by anti-bias, anti-racist, educator and activist, Tiffany Jewell, and illustrated by French illustrator Aurélia Durand.
Who are you?
What is your identity?
What is racism?
How do you choose your own path?
How do you stand in solidarity?
How can you hold yourself accountable?
Learn about identities, true histories, and anti-racism work in 20 carefully laid out chapters. Written by anti-bias, anti-racist, educator and activist, Tiffany Jewell, and illustrated by French illustrator Aurélia Durand.
(Racial Justice)