Inclusive Spaces and Resources

• Being Antiracist
• What does it mean to be antiracist – (handout from racial healing handbook by Anneliese Singh)
• Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAAJ) – resources to combat COVID-19 racism and hate
• Resources for BLM Movement – anti-racist resources curated by the Asian American Organizing Project
• Asian Americans, Racism and Antiracism in the COVID era transcript for a conversation hosted by EmbraceRace
• Anti-Blackness in Non-Black POC communities – a starting guide to anti-racist conversations with friends and family.

• The Atlantic: “Racism is Terrible. Blackness is not” by Imani Perry (June 12, 2020)
• The Atlantic: The Case for Reparations by Ta Nehisi Coates (June 23, 2014)
• The Atlantic: “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” By Dr. Ibram X. Kendi (May 12, 2020)
• The Players’ Tribune: “Privileged” by Kyle Korver (April 8, 2019)
• The Record Boston University School of Law: “The Fire This Time” by Angela Onwuachi-Willig (June 1, 2020) 
• The New York Times Magazine: The 1619 Project (all articles) by Nikole Hannah-Jones 
• The Undefeated: “Why We Must Talk About the Asian-American Story, Too: Anti-Asian-American racism paints picture of a ‘Model Minority’” by Brando Simeo Starkey (November 3, 2016)
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh  
• University of Michigan, Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: “I Am So Tired” (May 29, 2020)

Some books may currently be out of stock, we encourage you to consider e-book options: 

• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann
• A People’s History of the United States: 1492—Present by Howard Zinn  
• All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks  
• An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz  
• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 
• American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures by America Ferrera  
• Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis  
• Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay 
• Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston  
• Becoming by Michelle Obama  
• Between the World & Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates  
• Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think and Do by Jennifer Eberhardt  
• Black Appetite White Food by Jamila Lyiscott  
• …But I’m Not Racist by Kathy Obear  
• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins  
• Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin 
• Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon  
• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji  
• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah  
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown 
• Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine  
• Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta L. Hammond 
• Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed a Movement by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil T. Gotanda, Gary Peller & Kendall Thomas 
• Can We Talk About Race? by Beverly Daniel Tatum 
• Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha Series) by Tomi Adeyami  
• Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler  
• Colorblind Racism by Meghan Burke  
• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead by Brené Brown  
• Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Dives and Restore Balance by Edgar Villanueva  
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper 
• Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown  
• Fire Shut up in My Bones by Charles Blow  
• For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Ya’ll Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education by Christopher Emdin  
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis  
• Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience by Sheila Wise Rowe  
• Home by Toni Morrison  
• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall 
• How Does it Feel to Be a Problem: Being Young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi  
• How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones 
• How We Fight White Supremacy by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin  
• I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin  
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou  
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown  
• In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker  
• Internment by Samira Ahmed 
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison  
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson  
• Lead from the Outside by Stacey Abrams 
• Linguistic Justice Black Language, Literacy, Identity and Pedagogy by April Baker Bell  
• Me & White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad 
• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington 
• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong 
• Native Son by Richard Wright  
• Our Time is Now by Stacey Abrams  
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy a. Degruy  
• Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence by Derald Wing Sue  
• Readings for Diversity and Social Justice edited by Maurianne Adams, Warren J. Blumenfeld, Carmelita (Rosie) Castañeda, Heather W. Hackman, Madeline L. Peters, and Ximena Zúñiga 
• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock  
• Salvation: Black People and Love by bell hooks  
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audra Lorde 
• Slavery by Another Name the Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon  
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo 
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi  
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X  
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison  
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. 
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein  
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin  
• The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys by Ali Michael, Eddie Moore, Jr. Et.al.  
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas 
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot  
• The Inner Work of Racial Justice by Rhonda V. Magee 
• The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee  
• The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson 
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander 
• The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Dubois  
• The Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese A. Singh 
• The Source of Self Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches and Meditations by Toni Morrison 
• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon 
• This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell 
• This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jenkins  
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston  
• Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky and Connie Burk 
• We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance by Linda Sarsour  
• We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness by Alice Walker  
• We Got This. Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be by Cornelius Minor 
• We Should All be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  
• When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors 
• When Affirmative Action Was White: The Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth Century America by Ira Katznelson  
• White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era by Shelby Steele  
• White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise 
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson 
• White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad 
• Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis 
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum 
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

• ‘1619,’ a A Podcast from the New York Times 
• About Race 
• Code Switch (NPR) 
• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé  
• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast  
• Pod for the Cause (from the Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights) 
• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)  
• Seeing White 
• Good Ancestor by Layla Saad 
• Small Doses with Amanda Seales

• The difference between being “not racist” and antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• The urgency of intersectionality by Kimberle Crenshaw
• How can we make racism a solvable problem—and improve policing by Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff
• How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time by Baratunde Thurston
• The danger of a single story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• We need to talk about injustice by Bryan Stevenson
• What it takes to be racially literate by Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo
• Color blind or color brave by Mellody Hobson
• My identity is a superpower—not an obstacle by America Ferrera

• Deconstructing White Privilege with Dr. Robin DiAngelo
• Why “I’m Not Racist” is Only Half the Story | Robin DiAngelo
• Systemic racism explained (4-minute animated video) 
• PBS—Bryan Stevenson: How to Change the Culture of Policing (06.02.2020) 
• “We Cannot Stay Silent About George Floyd” | Patriot Act Digital Exclusive | Netflix (12 min video)  
• Trevor Noah Breaks Down Reparations & White Privilege (4 min video)  
• Jane Elliott on Her “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise” and Fighting Racism (7 min video)  
• Jane Elliott’s “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” Anti-Racism Exercise | 1992 Oprah Winfrey Show (32 min video)  
• “The Unequal Opportunity Race” (4 min video)  
• PBS—Black in America Since MLK: And Still I Rise

• 13th (Ava DuVernay)  
• American Son (Kenny Leon) 
• Dear White People (Justin Simien)  
• See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) 
• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) 
• Seven Seconds (Veena Sud) 
• They’ve Gotta Have Us (Docuseries) 
• Malcolm X (Spike Lee) 
• Who Killed Malcolm X (Rachel Dretzin and Phil Bertelsen) 
• Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Jenner Furst) 
• Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) 
• Self-Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker (Kasi Lemmons) 
• Becoming (Nadia Hallgren) 
• Teach Us All (Sonia Lowman) 
• Trigger Warning with Killer Mike 
• LA 92 (Daniel Lindsay & T.J. Martin) 
• The Force (Peter Nicks) 
• The Innocence Files (Roger Ross Williams) 

• If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) 
• The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.—Hulu with Cinemax)  
• Black-ish (Kenya Barris) 
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (George C. Wolfe) 
• Whose Streets (Sabaah Folayan) 
• Crime + Punishment (Stephen Maing) 

• Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) 
• I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin documentary directed by Raoul Peck) 
• Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) free rental for the month of June 2020 
• Selma (Ava DuVernay) 
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution  
• Hidden Figures (Theodore Melfi) 
• The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) 
• Loving (Jeff Nichols) 
• Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) 
• Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee) 
• Belle (Amma Asante) 
• Black Kkklansman (Spike Lee) 
• Marshall (Reginald Hudlin) 
• Hidden Figures (Theodore Melfi)