The COE Bookshelf Antiracism and Intersectional Oppression Resources General Books (Adults) A • Alexander, M. (2010). The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. The New Press. • Anderson, C. (2020). White rage: The unspoken truth of our racial divide. Bloomsbury. • Angelou, M. (1969). I know why the caged bird sings. Random House. • Anzaldúa, G. (2012). Borderlands: La frontera: The new Mestiza. Aunt Lute Books. • Arnold, J. (2020). Raising our hands: How White women can stop avoiding hard conversations, start accepting responsibility, and find our place on the new frontlines. BenBella Books. B • Baldwin, J. (1962). The fire next time. Vintage Books. • Boggs, G. L. (2011). The next American revolution: Sustainable activism for the twenty-first century. University of California Press. • Burciaga, J. A. (1993). Drink cultura: Chicanismo. Capra Press. • Butler, P. (2017). Chokehold: Policing Black men. The New Press. C • Coates, T.-N. (2015). Between the world and me. Spiegel & Grau. • Collins, P. H. (2000). Black feminist thought. Routledge. • Cooper, B. (2018). Eloquent rage: A Black feminist discovers her superpower. St. Martin’s Press. D • Davis, A. Y. (1981). Women, race and class. Random House. • Davis, A. Y. (2003). Are prisons obsolete? Seven Stories Press. • DiAngelo, R. (2018). White fragility: Why it’s so hard for White people to talk about racism. Beacon Press. E • Eddo-Lodge, R. (2017). Why I’m no longer talking to White people about race. Bloomsbury. F • Fanon, F. (1952). Black skin, white masks. Éditions du Seuil. • Fanon, F. (1963). The wretched of the earth. Présence Africaine. • Ferrera, A. (2019). American like me: Reflections on life between cultures. Gallery Books. G • Gómez, L. E. (2020). Inventing Latinos: A new story of American racism. The New Press. • Guerrero, D. (2016). In the country we love: My family divided. Henry Holt. I • Irving, D. (2014). Waking up White: And finding myself in the story of race. Elephant Room Press. K 1 • Kendi, I. X. (2019). How to be an antiracist. Random House. L • Laymon, K. (2019). Heavy: An American memoir. Scribner. • Lorde, A. (1984). Sister outsider: Essays and speeches. Ten Speed Press. • Lukas, J. A. (1985). Common ground: A turbulent decade in the lives of three American families. Alfred A. Knopf. M • Mock, J. (2014). Redefining realness: My path to womanhood, identity, love and so much more. Atria Books. • Moraga, C., & Anzaldúa, G. (Eds.). (2015). This bridge called my back: Writings by radical women of color (4th ed.). State University of New York Press. • Morrison, T. (1970). The bluest eye. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. O • Oluo, I. (2019). So you want to talk about race. Seal Press. • Ortiz, P. (2018). An African American and Latinx history of the United States. Beacon Press. R • Robinson, C. J. (1983). Black Marxism: The making of the Black radical tradition. Zed Press. S • Saad, L. F. (2020). Me and white supremacy: Combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor. Sourcebooks. • Stevenson, B. (2014). Just mercy: A story of justice and redemption. Spiegel & Grau. • Sublette, N. (2008). The world that made New Orleans: From Spanish silver to Congo square. Lawrence Hill Books. T • Tatum, B. D. (2017). Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? And other conversations about race. Basic Books. W • Wilkerson, I. (2010). The warmth of other suns: The epic story of America’s great migration. Vintage Books. Y • Young, D. (2019). What doesn’t kill you makes you Blacker: A memoir in essays. Ecco. Articles A • Abdul-Jabbar, K. (2020, May 30). Op-Ed: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge. • Abrams, K., Fregene, J., & Awadallah, L. (2019, March 26). Discourse and debate: Is performative activism inherently bad? • Aduayom, D. (2019, August 14). Their ancestors were enslaved by law. Today, they are graduates of the nation’s preeminent historically Black law school. • AlterNet. (2015, March 10). Why White people freak out when they’re called out about race. • Ariel, C. (2017, August 16). For our White friends desiring to be allies. • Austin, N. (2018, February 15). Teaching your child about Black history. B • BlackPast. (2020). (1977) the Combahee River collective statement. • Bouie, J. (2019, August 14). America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its founding: That some people deserve more power than others. C • Cargle, R. E. (2018, August 16). When feminism is white supremacy in heels. • Case, K. (2019, April 9). How not to be an ally. • Coaston, J. (2019, May 28). The intersectionality wars. • Cooper, L. (2020, June 1). Reckoning with white supremacy: Five fundamentals for White folks. D 2 • Desmond, M. (2019, August 14). In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation. E • Elliott, M., & Hughes, J. (2019, August 19). Four hundred years after enslaved Africans were first brought to Virginia, most Americans still don’t know the full story of slavery. G • Gay, R. (2020, May 30). Remember, no one is coming to save us. • Gibran Muhammad, K. (2019, August 14). The sugar that saturates the American diet has a barbaric history as the ‘white gold’ that fueled slavery. • Glover, C. (2018, May 15). How White womens’ tears threaten Black existence. • Gray, R. (2017, August 15). Trump defends White-Nationalist protesters: 'Some very fine people on both sides.' • Guliford, M. K. (2020, May 31). “We are not okay. And you shouldn’t be either.” H • Hannah-Jones, N. (2019, August 14). Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true. • Harriot, M. (2020, May 30). A timeline of events that led to the 2020 'fed up'-rising. • Hinton, E. (2020, May 29). The Minneapolis uprising in context. I • Interlandi, J. (2019, August 14). Why doesn’t the United States have universal health care? The answer has everything to do with race. K • Kegler, A. (2016, July 22). The sugarcoated language of white fragility. • Kendi, I. X. (2019, May 29). An antiracist reading list. • Kendi, I. X. (2020, May 12). Who gets to be afraid in America? • Kruse, K. M. (2019, August 14). What does a traffic jam in Atlanta have to do with segregation? Quite a lot. L • Lakin Hutcherson, L. (2017, September 8). My White friend asked me on Facebook to explain white privilege. I decided to be honest. • Lee, T. (2019, August 14). A vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions and exclusion, separates Black and White America. M • Morris, W. (2019, August 14). For centuries, Black music, forged in bondage, has been the sound of complete artistic freedom. No wonder everybody is always stealing it. N • North, A. (2020, June 3). What it means to be anti-racist. O • Obama, B. (2020, June 1). How to make this moment the turning point for real change. R • Rapoport, A. (2020, May 31). Food has always been political. S • Serwer, A. (2020, May 8). The coronavirus was an emergency until Trump found out who was dying. • Shutack, C. (2017, August 13). 103 things White people can do for racial justice. • Silverstein, J. (2019, December 20). Why we published the 1619 project. • Sippin the EquiTEA. (2018, November 27). This ‘equity’ picture is actually white supremacy at work. • Smith, I.E. (2016, September 2). Minority vs. minoritized: Why the noun just doesn't cut it. • Stephens, S. (2018, July 30). White people: This is how to check your privilege when asking people of color for their labor. • Stevenson, B. (2019, August 14). Slavery gave America a fear of Black people and a taste for violent punishment. Both still define our criminal-justice system. • Stewart, N. (2019, August 19). ‘We are committing educational malpractice’: Why slavery is mistaught — and worse — in American schools. T 3 • Teaching Tolerance. (1991-2020). White anti-racism: Living the legacy. • The New York Times Magazine. (2019, August 14). The 1619 project. V • Villarosa, L. (2019, August 14). Myths about physical racial differences were used to justify slavery — and are still believed by doctors today. W • Wallace, L. (2018, February 28). White people have no culture. • Williams, A. J. (2019, February 3). What do we do with White folks? • Witt, L. (2020, May 26). Amy Cooper, white spaces and the political project of whiteness. Reports E • Elliott, C. (2016). Tips for creating effective White caucus groups. J • Jones, K., & Okun, T. (2001). White supremacy culture: From dismantling racism: A workbook for social change groups. K • Kendall, F. E. (2003). How to be an ally if you are a person with privilege. • Krogstad, J. M. (2019, July 31). A view of the nation’s future through kindergarten demographics. • Krogstad, J. M., & Fry, R. (2014, August 18). Dept. of Ed. projects public schools will be ‘majority-minority’ this fall. S • Starck, J. G., Riddle, T., Sinclair, S., & Warikoo, N. (2020, July 13). Teachers are people too: Racial bias among American educators. YouTube B • Big Think. (2018, October 1). Why “I’m not racist” is only half the story: Robin DiAngelo: Big Think. G • General Commission on Religion and Race of the UMC. (2017, February 21). Deconstructing white privilege with Dr. Robin DiAngelo. N • National LGBTQ Task Force. (2016, January 23). Black feminism & the movement for Black lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers. R • RSA. (2013, December 10). Brené Brown on empathy. S • Seattle Channel. (2018, July 3). Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'white fragility.' T • TEDx Talks. (2012, November 5). "How studying privilege systems can strengthen compassion": Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools. • The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. (2020, May 29). George Floyd, Minneapolis protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper: The Daily Social Distancing Show. W • WHYY. (2017, May 23).