CALIFORNIA JUDICIAL CENTER LIBRARY | BLM RECOMMENDED READING LIST | SUMMER 2020
PRINT RESOURCES
Kids Summer Reading (All Ages) Ages 0-4 • All Kinds of People by Shelley Rotner • The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson • Dream Big, Little One by Vashti Harrison • Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña • Saturday by Oge More • Shades of Black: A Celebration of our Children by Sandra L. Pinkney
Ages 4-8 • All Different Now: Juneteenth the First Day of Freedom by Angela Johnson and E. B. Lewis • Dear Black Boy: It’s OK to Cry by Ebony Lewis • Don’t Touch My Hair! By Sharee Miller • Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly and Laura Freeman • I, Too, Am America by Langston Hughes, edited by Bryan Collier • Life Doesn’t Frighten Me by Maya Angelou, with illustrations by Basquiat • Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman illustrated by Jerry Pinkney • Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe • Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold • The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander • We March by Shane Evans
Ages 8-12 ● Brown Girl Dreaming by Jaqueline Woodson ● Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott ● The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton ● The Kid's Guide to Social Action: How to Solve the Social Problems You Choose-And Turn Creative Thinking into Positive Action by Barbara Lewis ● The Little Rock Nine and the Fight for Equal Education: A Graphic History of the Civil Rights Movement by Gary Jeffrey ● New Kid by Jerry Craft ● Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham ● One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia ● Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford ● Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney ● Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges ● We Rise, We Resist, We Raise our Voices edited by Wade Hudson ● Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice
Ages 12+ ● All American Boys by Jason Reynolds ● Black Mage by Daniel Barnes ● Dear Martin by Nic Stone ● A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Claire Hartfield ● The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas ● Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia Butler ● Monday’s Not Coming, by Tiffany D. Jackson ● Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi ● Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History by Joel Christian Gill CALIFORNIA JUDICIAL CENTER LIBRARY | BLM RECOMMENDED READING LIST | SUMMER 2020
Lesser-Known Classics (for Older Teens) ● Clotel; or the President’s Daughter by William Wells Brown ● I am not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett ● I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé ● If He Hollers, Let Him Go by Chester Himes ● Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler ● Passing by Nella Larsen ● Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay (published posthumously) ● Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver ● Zami: A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lorde
Black Authored Fiction • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • An American Marriage by Tayari Jones • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison • The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin • Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah • Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo • Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi • If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison • Kindred by Octavia E. Butler • Lakewood by Megan Giddings • New People by Danzy Senna • The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead • Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements • Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler • Real Life by Brandon Taylor • Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward • Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward • Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston • The Turner House by Angela Flournoy • The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead • The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett • We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin • Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson
Non-Fiction • Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor by Angela J. Davis • Barracoon: The Story of the ‘Last Black Cargo’ by Zora Neale Hurston • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates • A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross • The Central Park Five: The Untold Story Behind One of New York City’s Most Infamous Crimes by Sarah Burns • The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein CALIFORNIA JUDICIAL CENTER LIBRARY | BLM RECOMMENDED READING LIST | SUMMER 2020
• Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice by Si Kahn • The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabapple • Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Haney Lopez • Ferguson and Faith: Sparking Leadership and Awakening Community by Leah Gunning Francis • The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin • Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect by Robert J. Sampson • The House That Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today by Whaneema Lubiano • Life in Prison by Stanley “Tookie” Williams and Barbara Cottman • Mr. Smith Goes to Prison: What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America’s Prison Crisis by Jeff Smith and Tim Bartlett • My Vanishing Country: A Memoir by Bakari Sellers • No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row by Susan Kuklin • Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations by Joe Feagin • Sister: An African American Life in Search of Justice by Sylvia Bell White and Jody LePage • This is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman by Ilhan Omar • This is What I Am by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez • Two Faced Racism: Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage by Leslie Picca and Joe Feagin • Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel • The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson • White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson • White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg • Why Are So Many Black Men in Prison? By Demico Boothe
Non-Fiction (in CJCL Collection) Print Titles • The Alchemy of Race and Rights by Patricia J. Williams • And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice by Derrick Bell • Archy Lee: A California Fugitive Slave Case by Rudolph M. Lapp; Foreword by Shirley Ann Wilson Moore • Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007. Prepared Under the Direction of the Committee on House Administration of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Office of History and Preservation, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. • Black Judges on Justice: Perspectives From the Bench by Linn Washington • Black, White, and Brown: The Landmark School Desegregation Case in Retrospect by Editors, Clare Cushman and Melvin I. Urofsky; Foreword by William H. Rehnquist • The Color of the Law: Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South by Gail Williams O'Brien • Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester by Derrick Bell • The Death Penalty in Black and White: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides: New Studies on Racism in Capital Punishment by Richard C. Dieter • Death Row U.S.A. Reporter published by NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund • Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties and the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, On H.R. 923, June 12, 2007. • Faces at the bottom of the well: The Permanence of Racism by Derrick Bell • Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr. CALIFORNIA JUDICIAL CENTER LIBRARY | BLM RECOMMENDED READING LIST | SUMMER 2020
• The Making Of "Mammy Pleasant": A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco by Lynn M. Hudson • Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration by Devah Pager • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander • Race Results: Hollywood vs. The Supreme Court: Ten Decades of Racial Decisions and Film by Eileen C. Moore • That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row by Jarvis Jay Masters • Tulsa-Greenwood Race Riot Claims Accountability Act of 2007: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, On H.R. 1995, April 24, 2007. • Young, Black, and Male in America: An Endangered Species edited by Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, et al.
Electronic Titles • Berkeley Journal of African American Law & Policy [Hein Online] Harvard Blackletter Journal [Hein Online] • Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice [Hein Online] • Race Relations Law Reporter [Hein Online] • Southern Journal of Policy and Justice Law Journal [Hein Online]
Criminal Justice and Racial Justice • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates • I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You by David Charlandy • The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale • The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race edited by Jessmyn Ward • Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson • The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing, and US Social Transformation by Fania E. Davis • The Little Book of Restorative Justice: Revised and Updated by Howard Zehr • My People are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain by Aaron Dixon • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander • Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment by Angela Davis, et al. • Race, Law and American Society by Gloria Browne-Marshall • Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race and Ethnicity by Charles Gallagher • Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Crime, and the Pursuit of Justice by Brendan O’Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendo and Jason Reynolds • When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bendele
Skill Building and Cultural Awareness • Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt • How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide by Crystal Fleming • How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Resistance by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin CALIFORNIA JUDICIAL CENTER LIBRARY | BLM RECOMMENDED READING LIST | SUMMER 2020
• Me and White Supremacy: A 28-Day Challenge to Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad • Racism without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva • So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo • White Fragility: Why it’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES
Kid-Friendly Online Content • 21 Anti-Racism Videos to Share with Kids • Black Family Joy • Black Lives Matter: A Reading List for Children and Families • Black Lives Matter Co-Creator on the New Civil Rights Movement • Black Lives Matter Comics Reading List • Black Stories Matter: Picture Book Films for Kids • Coretta Scott King Book Awards • Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD) Children’s Books • Raise Anti-Racist Kids: Learn About Race and Racism • Social Justice Books: A Teaching for Change Project • Tips for Talking About Race with Small Children (Podcast)
Other Online Content • ABA Implicit Bias Task Force Bibliography and Resources • ACLU Racial Justice Program • ACPA Black Lives Matter Resources • Black Lives Matter Resources • The Costs of Code-Switching • Justice in June • NCSC: Helping Courts Address Implicit Bias • Project Implicit (Harvard University) • Racial Equity Tools
Podcasts General Podcasts • 1619 • Code Switch • Come Through with Rebecca Carroll • Essential Listening: Podcasts on Race and Racism • Good Ancestor Podcast, Layla F. Saad • Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw • It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders • Pod Save the People • Small Doses with Amanda Seales • Still Processing • The Stoop
CALIFORNIA JUDICIAL CENTER LIBRARY | BLM RECOMMENDED READING LIST | SUMMER 2020
Podcast Episodes • Cape Up with Jonathan Capeheart—Interview with Robin DiAngelo • The Daily—Multiple Episodes (Covering Protests and Police Misconduct Since 5/29) • The Geek In Review—Conversations on Race in the Legal Industry with Bryan Parker and Jonathan Greenblatt • TED Talks Daily—Interview with Inbram X. Kendi
Blogs General Blogs • Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice and Health • Citizenship and Social Justice • Impact Fund Social Justice Blog Black Lives Matter • Local and Regional Government Alliance on Race and Equity • Net Impact • Race Matters Institute • Scientific American: Voices • Social Justice Journal Blog
Blog Posts • OPL Responds: Working Towards Racial Justice • Structural Racism in America • Systemic Racism and America Today • Understanding Racism and Inequality in America • Ways to Help Fight Anti-Black Police Violence
Movies (Fiction) • 12 Years a Slave • Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner • American History X • The Hate U Give • American Son * • If Beale Street Could Talk • The Believer • In the Heat of the Night • The Birth of a Nation * • The Last Black Man in San Francisco * • BlacKkKlansman • Malcolm X • Blindspotting • Mississippi Burning • A Boy A Girl A Dream * • Monster’s Ball • Crash • The Namesake • Dead Presidents • Precious • Dear White People • Queen & Slim • Django Unchained • Romper Stomper * • Do the Right Thing • Selma • East is East • Shadows • Fences • Song of the South • Fruitvale Station • This is England • Get Out • A Time to Kill • Gook * • To Kill A Mockingbird • Gran Torino • To Sleep With Anger • The Green Mile • White Dog
* Streaming Available Through SFPL (Hoopla or Kanopy)
CALIFORNIA JUDICIAL CENTER LIBRARY | BLM RECOMMENDED READING LIST | SUMMER 2020
Movies (Documentary) • 13th • LA 92 • 16 Shots • Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992 • The African Americans: Many Rivers to • More Than a Month Cross * • Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and • America To Me the NAACP * • The Black List: Volume One • The Murder of Fred Hampton • The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the • Paris Is Burning Revolution * • Peace Officer * • The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 • Rest In Power: The Trayvon Martin • Dark Girls * Story • Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights • Slavery By Another Name * Movement • Soundtrack for a Revolution * • Freedom on My Mind • Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter • Freedom Riders * Movement • Jewel’s Catch One • Strong Island • Hale County This Morning, This Evening • Teach Us All • Harriet Tubman: They Called Her Moses • They’ve Gotta Have Us • I Am Not Your Negro * • Time: The Kalief Browder Story • The Innocence Files • Whose Streets *
* Streaming Available Through SFPL (Hoopla or Kanopy)
Streaming Services Movies • #Black Lives Matter (Amazon Prime) • The Incredible Jessica James (Netflix) • 16 Shots (Showtime) • Juanita (Netflix) • 25th Hour (Amazon Prime) • The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix) • The Apollo (HBO) • Lionheart (Netflix) • Beast of No Nation (Netflix) • Mudbound (Netflix) • Becoming (Netflix) • Self Made: Inspired by the Life of • Been So Long (Netflix) Madam C.J. Walker (Netflix) • Clemency (Hulu) • Trevor Noah: Son of Patricia (Netflix) • Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap • What Happened, Miss Simone? (Netflix) (Netflix) • When They See Us (Netflix) • Homecoming (Netflix) • Where Hands Touch (Hulu)
TV • Atlanta (Hulu) • Monsters and Men (Hulu) • Black-ish (Hulu) • On My Block (Netflix) • Dear White People (Netflix) • Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) • The Get Down (Netflix) • Pose (Netflix) • Greenleaf (Netflix) • She’s Gotta Have It (Netflix) • Grown-ish (Hulu) • Sorry to Bother You (Hulu) • Insecure (HBO) • Watchmen (HBO) • Luke Cage (Netflix) • The Wire (Hulu)
Many streaming services have recently created curated Black Lives Matter collections:
• Amazon Prime • Netflix • Hulu • TubiTV