Anti-Racism & Understanding the Ramifications of Institutional Racism:

• Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
• How To Be An Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi
• White Fragility – Dr. Robin DiAngelo
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age Of Colorblindness – Michelle Alexander
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government – Richard Rothstein
• So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo
• Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race – Reni Eddo-Lodge
• White Rage – Carol Anderson
• The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
• The Warmth of Other Suns – Isabel Wilkerson
• Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice – Paul Kivel
• Prejudice and Your Child – Kenneth Clark
• Two Nations: Black and White. Separate, Hostile, and Unequal – Andrew Hecker
• Lies My Teacher Told Me – James Loewen

Books for Educators to Consider:

• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria – Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum,
• Through Our Own Eyes: A Journey Into African American History – Joseph Edelin
• Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain – Zaretta Hammond
• What If the Kids Are All White? Anti-Bias Multicultural Education with Young Children and Families – Derman-Sparks, Ramsey & Olsen

Books for Children:

• Separate Is Never Equal – Duncan Tonatiuh
• Antiracist Baby – Ibram X. Kendi
• Let the Children March – Monica Clark-Robinson
• The Colors of Us – Karen Katz
• A Kids Book About Racism – Jelani Memory
• Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Race – Celano, Collins, Hazzard, Moses
• A Boy Like You – Frank Murphy
• Mae Among the Stars – Roda Ahmed

Links to Additional Resources:

• The Case For Reparations
• How to Deconstruct Racism One Headline at a Time (video)
• How Racism Makes Us Sick (video)
• Greta Thunberg Isn’t the Only Young Climate Activist You Need to Know
• Where Change Started