Anti-Black Racism Education Resource List
The Office of Global Inclusion (OGI) has compiled a list that provides resources including articles, videos, podcasts, books, and guides about histories of racism and oppression primarily in the United States. These resources are meant to enhance opportunities for individuals and groups to provide further enrichment and education on antiracism.
[Note: This list is not exhaustive and will be updated periodically via this PDF (114 KB). All links below open in new tabs.]
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- The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
- The Combahee River Collective Statement
- Elijah Anderson, “The White Space”
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations”
- Robin DiAngelo, “Nothing to Add: The Role of White Silence in Racial Discussions” and “White Fragility”
- Cheryl Harris, “Whiteness as Property”
- Camara Phyllis Jones, “Levels of Racism: A Theoretic Framework and a Gardener’s Tale”
- Ibram X. Kendi, “A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters”
- Peggy McIntosh, ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”
- National Equity Project, “Lens of Systemic Oppression” and “Implicit Bias and Structural Racialization”
- Devah Pager and Bruce Western, “Identifying Discrimination at Work: The Use of Field Experiments”
- William L. Patterson, We Charge Genocide
- Kaitlin Smith, “Bearing Witness: The Death of George Floyd”
- Bryan Stevenson, “On the Frustration Behind the George Floyd Protests”
- Kimberlé Crenshaw, “The Urgency of Intersectionality”
- William A. Darity Jr., “How Do We Span the Racial Wealth Gap?”
- Mellody Hobson, “Color Blind or Color Brave?”
- Bryan Stevenson, “There’s a Direct Line From Lynching to George Floyd”
- Ascend Pan-Asian Leaders, COVID-19 Resource
- Diversity Best Practices, Upstanding Against Racism
- Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, “Talking About Race: Being Antiracist”
- Mumia Abu-Jamal, Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
- Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
- James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
- Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does it Feel to be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America
- Aime Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism
- Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
- Dolly Chugh, The Person You Mean To Be: How Good People Fight Bias
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
- Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought
- Kimberly McClain DaCosta, Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line
- Angela Davis, Policing the Black Man
- Matthew Desmond, Evicted
- Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
- W.E.B Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
- Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
- Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
- Anthony Greenwald and Mahzarin Banaji, Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
- Alan H. Goodman, Yolanda T. Moses, and Joseph L. Jones, Race: Are We So Different?
- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Allan G. Johnson, Privilege, Power, and Difference
- Ira Katznelson, When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
- Ibram X. Kendi, How To Be An Antiracist
- Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
- Kiese Laymon, Heavy: An American Memoir
- Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider
- Janet Mock, Redefining Realness
- Darnell Moore, No Ashes in the Fire
- Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, eds. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
- Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye and The Source of Self-Regard
- Abdias do Nascimento, Brazil: Mixture or Massacre: Essays in the Genocide of a Black People
- Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race
- Paul Ortiz, An African-American and Latinx History of the United States
- Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law
- Layla F. Saad, Me and White Supremacy
- Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy
- Derald Wing Sue, Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race
- Jesmyn Ward, ed. The Fire This Time
- Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns
- Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- 24 Books For White People To Read Beyond Black History Month
- Ibram X. Kendi, An Antiracist Reading List (**access through NYU Libraries**)
Adapted from the document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein in May 2020.