Select Writings on Race, Racial Politics, Histories Related to Race, As Well as Other Related Topics

History

• Dr. W.E.B. DuBois The Souls of Black Folk Chicago A.C. McClurg & Co. 1903
• Dr Carter G. Woodson Miseducation of the Negro 1933
• Paul Ortiz An African American and Latinx History of the United States 2017
• Robin D.G. Kelley Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
• Ivan Van Sertima They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
• Chancellor Williams The Destruction of Black Civilization
• George GM James Stolen Legacy: The Egyptian Origins of Western Philosophy
• Cheik Anta Diop The African Origin of Civilization
• Dr. Frances Cress Welsing The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors
• Cheik Anta Diop Precolonial Black Africa
• Book by Willie Lynch The Willie Lynch Letter
• Walter Rodney How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
• Ivan Van Sertima African Presence In Early Europe
• John Henrik Clarke Christopher Columbus & the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery & the Rise of European Capitalism
• Dr. John Henrik Clarke African People in World History
• Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan Africa: Mother Of Western Civilization
• Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan Cultural Genocide in the Black and African Studies Curriculum
• Margaret Meade & James Baldwin A Rap on Race
• Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons For Our Own
• Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Stony Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and The Rise of Jim Crow
• Charles River Editors Black Wall Street: The History of the Greenwood District Before the Tulsa Race Riot
• Alice L. Baumgartner South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
• Jonathan Daniel Wells The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
• Martha S. Jones Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
  

Law/Policy/Economics & Race

• Andrea Flynn, Susanne R. Holmberg, Dorian T. Warren, and Felicia J. Wong The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy
• Michelle Alexander The New Jim Crow 2010
• Ibram X Kendi Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History Of Racist Ideas in America 2016
• David Rothstein The Color Of Law: The Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 2017
• Ira Katz Nelson When Affirmative Action Was White
• Daina Ramey Berry The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved from Womb to Grave in The Building of a Nation
• Mitchell Duneier Ghetto: The Invention Of A Place, The History Of An Idea
• Douglas A. Blackmon Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
• Khalil Gibran Muhammad The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, And the Making of Modern Urban America
• Paul Butler Chokehold: Policing Black Men
• Melvin Oliver & Thomas Shapiro Black Wealth/White Wealth
• Dr. Angela Davis Are Prisons Obsolete?
• The House That Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Davis, Cornel West, and others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today
• Dorothy Roberts Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty First Century
• Thomas Sowell The Economics and Politics of Race
• Brendan O’Flaherty The Economic of Race in The United States
• Andrea Flynn, Dorian T. Warren, Felicia J. Wong, Susan R. Holmberg The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy
• Mehrsa Baradaran The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
• Shawn D. Rochester The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America
• Thomas Shapiro The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality
• Thomas Shapiro Toxic Inequality: How America’s Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens
• The Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future
• Benjamin Davis Reform or Revolt: A Push to End Discrimination in our Banks and Financial Institutions Based on Economic Class, Race, Sex or for Being Differently Abled
• Gavin Wright Slavery and American Economic Development
• Edward E. Baptiste The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
• Anne Larason Schneider, Helen Ingram Policy Design for Democracy
• Deborah Stone Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making
• Calvin Schermerhorn The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism 1815- 1860
• Sven Beckert Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development
• James M. Glaser, Timothy Ryan Changing Minds, If Not Hearts: Political Remedies for Racial
• Conflict (American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law)

Whiteness/White Fragility/White Rage/White Privilege

• Ijeoma Oluo Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
• Debby Irving Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
• Robin Diangelo White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
• Dr. Carol Anderson White Rage: The Unspoken Truth Of Our Racial Divide 2016
• David Roediger Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White
• Karen Brodkin How Jews Became White Folks & What That Says About Race in America
• Karen and Barbara Fields Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American
• Hari Kunzru White Tears (Novel)
• Theodore Allen The Invention of the White Race
• Michael Eric Dyson Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
• Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Racism Without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
• Leslie Houts Picca & Joe R. Feagin Two Faced Racism: Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage (case studies of racist incidents in American Universities
• Tim Wise White Like Me
• Jonathan M. Metzi Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland
• Paul Kivel Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
• Shelly Tochluk Witnessing Whiteness
• Derald Wing Sue Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race
• Frances Kendall Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race
• George Lipsitz Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics
• Joseph Barndt Dismantling Racism: The Twenty-First Century Challenge to White America
• Cheryl Matias Feeling White: Whiteness, Emotionality, and Education
• Jim Wallace, Bryan Stevenson America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
• Kristin J. Anderson Benign Bigotry
• Judy Ryde White Privilege Unmasked
• Noel Ignatiev, John Garvey Race Traitor

Puerto Rico/Caribbean

• Nelson A. Denis The War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s  Colony
• Naomi Klein The Battle For Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on Disaster Capitalists
• Juan Gonzalez Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
• Eduardo Galeano Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
• Fernando Pico History of Puerto Rico: A Panorama of Its People
• Fernando Pico One Frenchman, Four Revolutions: General Ferrand and the Peoples of the Caribbean
• James Dietz Economic History of Puerto Rico
• Guillermo A. Barait Esclavos Rebeldes
• Arturo Morales Carrion & Maria Teresa Babin Cortes Puerto Rico: a Political and Cultural History
• Edited by Kai Wagenheim & Oga Jimenez de Wagenheim The Puerto Ricans: A
• Documentary History
• Ed Morales Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico
• Ed Morales Living in Spanglish
• Angel Collado-Schwarz Decolonization Models for America’s Last Colony Puerto Rico
• Jose Trias Monge Puerto Rico: The Trials of the Oldest Colony in the World
• Julian Go American Empire and The Politics of Meaning
• Juan A Silen, Juan Sila We, The Puerto Rican People: A Story of Oppression and Resistance
• Jose G. Perez Puerto Rico: U.S. Colony in the Caribbean
• Sebastian Robiou Lamarche Tianos and Caribs: The Aboriginal Cultures of The Antilles
• Sebastian Robiou Lamarche Tainos y Caribes: Las Culturas Aborigenes Antillanas
• Edited by Gabriel Haslip-Viera Taino Revival: Critical Perspectives on Puerto Rican
• Identity and Cultural Politics
• Bernardo Vega Dominican Cultures: The Making of a Caribbean Society
• Irving Rouse The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus
• Lesley Gail Atkinson The Earliest Inhabitants: The Dynamics of the Jamaican Taino
• Patricia Silver Sunbelt Diaspora: Race, Class, and Latino Politics in Puerto Rican
• Orlando
• Michael Deibert When the Sky Fell: Hurricane Maria and The United States in Puerto Rico
• David M. Stark Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico
• Luis M. Figueroa Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth Century Puerto Rico
• Michael Gonzalez-Cruz Militant Puerto Ricans: Migrants, Armed Struggle &Political Prisoners
• Mark Charles Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery

Intersections of Women’s Issues and Race

• Brittney Cooper Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower 2019
• Brittney Cooper Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women Beyond Respectability
• Danielle L. McGuire At The Dark End Of The Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance – A
• New Visionary History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
• Morgan Jerkins This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and
• Feminist in White America
• Emily Bernard Black is The Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine.
• Audre Lorde Sisters Outsider
• Ruby Hamad White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
• Edited by Beverly Guy-Sheftall Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought
• Dana Ain Davis Reproductive Injustice: Racism Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
• Monique W. Morris Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
• Vron Ware, Mikki Kendall Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History
• Dr. Angela Davis Women, Race & Class
• Dr. Angela Davis Women, Culture, Politics

Identity Politics and Sociology

• Ellen D. Wu The Color Of Success: Asian Americans and The Origins of the Model Minority The Color of Success 2013
• Dr Gaye Theresa Johnson Spaces of Conflict: Sounds of Solidarity
• Dr Angela Davis The Meaning of Freedom
• Tahenisi Coates Between The World and Me 2015
• Ibram X Kendi How to Be An Antiracist 2019
• Jesmyn Ward The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
• Keeanga-Yamahitta Taylor From Black Lives Matter To Black Liberation
• Albert Memmi The Colonizer and The Colonized
• Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
• Dr. Joy Degruy Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
• Mitchell Duneier Ghetto: The Invention of A Place, The History of An Idea
• Wesley Lowery They Can’t Kill Us All
• James Baldwin Nobody Knows My Name
• James Baldwin The Fire Next Time
• Franz Fanon The Wretched of The Earth
• Franz Fanon Black Skin, White Masks
• Dr. Angela Davis Freedom is a Constant Struggle
• Dr. Angela Davis The Meaning of Freedom and Other Difficult Dialogues
• Marimba Ani Yurugu: Cultural Thought and Behavior
• Franz Fanon The Wretched of The Earth
• Franz Fanon Black Skin, White Masks
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Cornel West The Future of the Race
• Cornel West Race Matters
• Cornel West The Cornel West Reader
• Kelvin Parker Me in America
• Terry Keys Stop Killing Us: My Story and the History of Racism in America
• Kamal Al-Solaylee Brown: What Being Brown in The World Today Means
• Layla F. Saad Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
• Tanya Maria Golash-Boza Race & Racisms: A Critical Approach (sociology)
• Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations
• Elijah Anderson Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and Moral Life of the Inner City
• Claude Steele Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
• Chad Williams, Kidada E. Williams, Keisha N. Blain Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race,
• Racism and Racial Violence

Health/Psychology and Racism

• Alphonso Pinkney Black Americans 
• Dr. Joy Degruy Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and  Healing 
• Austin Channing Brown I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness 157.
• Adam Rutherford A Brief History Of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold  Through Our Genes 
• Dana Ain Davis Reproductive Injustice: Racism Pregnancy, and Premature Birth 160. Mary Frances Winters Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit
  

Education/Communication/Pedagogy 

• Hooks Killing Rage Ending Racism 
• Cheryl Matias Feeling White: Whiteness, Emotionality, and Education 
• Paulo Freire Pedagogy of The Oppressed 
• Paulo Freire The Politics of Education 
• Paulo Freire Literacy and Revolution (edited by Robert Mackie)
• Bell Hooks Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom 167. Bell Hooks Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope 
• Bell Hooks Reel to Real: Race, Sex and Class at the Movies 
• Bell Hooks Belonging: A Culture of Place 
• Bell Hooks Outlaw Culture 
• Edwin Mayorga, Ujju Aggarwal & Bree Picower What’s Race Got To Do With It?: How Current  School Reform Policy Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality 
• Rhonda V. Magee The Inner Work of Racial Justice 
• Lama Rod Owens Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger 
• Thich Nhat Hahn The Art of Communicating 
• Alicia Garza The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart 176. Adrienne Maree Brown We Will Not Cancel Us: And of Dreams of Transformative Justice
• Glenn E. Singleton Courageous Conversations about Race (Professional Development)
• Zaretta Hammond Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic  Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students 
• Tema Jon Okun The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching About Race and Racism to People  Who Don’t Want To Know (Educational Leadership and Social Justice)
• Tiffany Jewel This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do  the Work (Young Adult)
• Ibram X. Kendi Anti-Racist Baby (Childrens book with pictures)
• Innosanto Nagara A is for Activist (Childrens book)
• Edited by Mica Pollock Every Day Anti-Racism: Getting Real about Race in School 
• Dr. Beverly Tatum Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in The Cafeteria (And other  Conversations About Race) The 20th Anniversary Edition
  

Documentaries 

• Puerto Rico: The Last Colony 2015 Historical Documentary 1 hr 30 minutes
• Harvest of Empire 2012 Documentary of Americas Relationship to Latin America
• I’m Not Your Negro 2017 Documentary by Raoul Peck focusing on the work of James Baldwin
• Sankofa 1993
• Birth of A Nation (The Clansman) 1915 
• Daughters of The Dust 1991 Julie Dash 
• The 13th Ava Duvernay 2016 
• Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am 2019 Timothy Greenfield-Sanders 
• Whose Streets? 2017 Sabaah Folayan 
• Left Out 2017 Malaika Jabali 
• Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement 2016 Laurens Grant 
• Crime and Punishment 2018 Stephen Maing 
• Time: The Kalief Browder Story 2017 Julia Willoughby Nason 
• Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools 2019 Jacoba Atlas 
• Los Graduados 2013 Bernardo Ruiz 
• Sin Pais 2010 
• Skipping Up 2013 Faith Radle 
• Immigrant Hight 2018 Xochiti Dorsey 
• New American Girls 2014 Mitchell Teplitsky and Betty Bastidas 
• Latino Americans 2013 David Belton, Sonia Fritz 
• Black In Latin America 2011 Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.