Recommended Reading, Viewing & Listening
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BOOKS
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Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery NOTE: This is a Young Adult book but can be appreciated by children age 8 and up
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
White Fragility, Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Racism Without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance by Edgar Villanueva
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
when they call you a terrorist, a black lives matter memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele
waking up white by Debby Irving
Dismantling the Racism Machine, A Manual and Toolbox by Karen Gaffney
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett
The Color of Law, a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, a Young Black Man’s Education by Mychal Denzel Smith
FICTION
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
ONLINE READING MATERIAL
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones. A podcast is available here.
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Choosing a School for my Daughter in a Segregated City by Nikole Hannah-Jones
The Legacy of a Radical Black Newspaperman by Casey Cep
What Reparations for Slavery Might Look Like in 2019 by Patricia Cohen
FILMS/DOCUMENTARIES
The Powerbroker This documentary is about Whitney Young — civil rights leader, long time UU, and father of Fourth Universalist member Marcia Canterella
Selma Ava DuVerynay
13th Ava DuVernay
When They See Us Ava DuVernay
Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson
FOR CHILDREN
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery NOTE: This is a Young Adult book but can be appreciated by children age 8 and up
Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham NOTE: This is a picture book that invites white children and parents to become curious about racism, accept that it’s real, and cultivate justice
Little Leaders, Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
Don’t Touch My Hair! by Sharee Miller (YouTube reading of this book)
Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes and Friendship by Irene Latham & Charles Waters
Brick by Brick by Charles R. Smith Jr.
Her Left Foot by Dave Eggers (YouTube reading of this book)