Are you looking for a great resource to help you move yourself or your organization forward? Here are books, podcasts, and other resources we and our clients have found helpful
Racial Justice
- Books for adults: nonfiction
- Raising White Kids by Jennifer Harvey
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehesi Coates
- Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, Toni Morrison
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein
- Women, Race, and Class, Angela Davis
- Belonging: A Culture of Place, bell hooks
- Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, Cathy O’Neil
- Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, Michael Dyson
- Kindred, Octavia Butler
- The Cooking Gene by Michael Twitty & his blog/media Afroculinaria
- Farming While Black by Leah Penniman
- The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen, &, his NATIFs project, & related food sovereignty
- projects around the Midwest
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- Black Man in a White Coat
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond, – while not specifically about race, shows the effects of centuries of housing discrimination
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Uprooting Racism – 4th Edition: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
- Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown
- White Ally Toolkit, by David Campt
- Podcasts
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