Books, magazine articles, photo essays

Black American History, Memoirs, and Political Thought

• The 1619 Project (The New York Times Magazine)
• An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
• The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry
• The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by Walter Johnson
• The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic)
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
• The Combahee River Collective Statement
• The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, with a new preface by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
• Don’t Understand the Protests? What You're Seeing is People Pushed to the Edge by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (The Los Angeles Times)
• Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sullivan Sorin
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
• Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism by Derrick Bell
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• Friends Disappear: The Battle for Racial Equity in Evanston by Mary Barr
• From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal
• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
• Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation by Richard Frishman (The New York Times)
• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
• How Did We Get Here? 163 Years of The Atlantic’s Writing on Race and Racism in America
• How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance by Akiba Solomon
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• I Was Pregnant and in Crisis. All the Doctors and Nurses Saw Was an Incompetent Black Woman by Tressie McMillan Cottom (Time)
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
• Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
• Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope by DeRay Mckesson
• Race Matters by Cornel West
• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
• Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow by Leon Litwack
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves: An Anthology by Glory Edim
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
• “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”: and Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Tatum
• The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism (Audre Lorde)
• Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race (Rene Eddo-Lodge)
• The Fire This Time (Jesmyn Ward)
• Why Seeing Yourself Represented on Screen is So Important (Kimberley Lawson)
• The End of Policing (Alex Vitale)

Latino American History, Memoirs, and Political Thought

• An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
• Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz
• Blowout!: Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice by Mario T. García and Sal Castro
• Children of the Land: A Memoir by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
• Enrique’s Journey: The True Story of a Boy Determined to Reunite with His Mother by Sonia Nazario
• Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola Novaes Ramos
• Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Laura Gómez
• Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy that Shaped a Nation by Ray Suarez
• My Time among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education by Jennine Capó Crucet
• My Time to Speak: Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race by Ilia Calderón
• The New Latino Studies Reader: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective by Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Tomás Almaguer
• Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa
• A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son: Stories by Sergio Troncoso
• Stranger: The Challenge of a Latino Immigrant in the Trump Era by Jorge Ramos
• The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas by Roberto Lovato

Historias, memoria, y pensamientos político latinoamericanos – En Español

• El Precio del Racismo: La Hostilidad Racial y la Fractura del “Sueño Americano” escrito por Eduardo Porter
• Querida América: Notas de un Ciudadano Indocumentado escrito por Jose Antonio Vargas
• Stranger: El Desafío de un Inmigrante Latino en la Era de Trump escrito por Jorge Ramos
• La Travesía de Enrique: La Historia Real de un Niño Decidido a Reunirse con Su Madre escrito por Sonia Nazario
• Una Vez Fui Tú: Mi Vida Entre el Amor y el Odio en los Estados Unidos escrito por Maria Hinojosa

Native American History, Memoirs, and Political Thought

• “All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker
• As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
• Crime and Social Justice in Indian Country edited by Marianne O. Nielsen and Karen Jarratt- Snider
• Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria, Jr.
• Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians but Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer
• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• Native Knowledge 360 Framework for Essential Understandings about American Indians by the National Museum of the American Indian Education Office
• The Night Watchman: A Novel by Louise Erdrich
• The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez
• Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought by Sandy Grande
• Red Power Rising: The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism by Bradley Glenn Shreve
• Say We Are Nations: Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous America since 1887 by Daniel Cobb
• Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon through North America’s Stolen Land by Noé Álvarez
• Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement edited by Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon
• There There by Tommy Orange
• This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made by Frederick Hoxie
• The Tribal Moment in American Politics: The Struggle for Native American Sovereignty by Christine K. Gray
• Tribal Nations and the United States: An Introduction developed by the National Congress of American Indians

Asian American History, Memoirs, and Political Thought

• Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
• Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares by Aarti Namdev Shahani
• The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee
• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
• My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant by Jose Antonio Vargas (The New York Times)
• Not My White Savior: A Memoir in Poems by Julayne Lee
• Southland by Nina Revoyr
• We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape our Multiracial Future by Deepa Iyer
• Your House Will Pay: A Novel by Steph Cha

White Supremacy and Antiracism

• 7 Ways We Know Systemic Racism Is Real by Ben & Jerry’s
• America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee
• American Poison: How Racial Hostility Destroyed our Promise by Eduardo Porter
• An Antiracist Reading List by Ibram X. Kendi (The New York Times)
• Being An Ally by Southerners on New Ground
• Beyond Charlottesville: Taking a Stand against White Nationalism by Terry McAuliffe
• Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer Eberhardt
• Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Haney-López
• Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland by Jonathan Metzl
• Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy E. Roberts
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• How White People Got Made by Quinn Norton (The Message)
• Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong by James Loewen
• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
• Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation by Derald Wing Sue
• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
• One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying our Democracy by Carol Anderson
• The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison
• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, & Engage in Collective Healing by Anneliese A. Singh
• Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America, Fifth Edition, by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
• Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by X. Kendi
• Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
• Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, and Identity by Winona Guo
• Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation by John Lewis (The New York Times)
• Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
• We’re Still Here: Pain and Politics in the Heart of America by Jennifer M. Silva
• What Is a Microaggression? 14 Offensive Phrases to Avoid Saying by Marguerite Ward and Rachel Premack (Business Insider)
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth- Century America by Ira Katznelson
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson
• White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son: The Remix by Tim J. Wise
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
• White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun
• Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism by Robin DiAngelo (The Huffington Post)
• When Feminism is White Supremacy in Heels (Rachel Elizabeth Cargle)

Movies, documentaries, short videos

• 5 Tips For Being An Ally (chescaleigh)
• 13th (Ava DuVernay)
• The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross: An Unprecedented Journey through African American History (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)
• Africa’s Great Civilizations (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)
• America After Ferguson
• American Son (Kenny Leon)
• And She Could Be Next (Ava DuVernay)
• Black America since MLK: And Still I Rise (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)
• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers
• Black Lives Matter: “How Can We Win?” Monopoly Analogy Explained (featuring Kimberly Jones)
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Stanley Nelson)
• Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 (Goran Hugo Olsson)
• Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada)
• Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu)
• Dear White People (Justin Simien)
• The Disturbing History of the Suburbs (Adam Ruins Everything)
• Dr. Robin DiAngelo Discusses “White Fragility”
• Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America (Gretchen Sorin)
• Explained: Racial Wealth Gap (Netflix)
• Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler)
• George Floyd and the Dominos of Racial Injustice (Trevor Noah)
• The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.)
• How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them (Verna Myers)
• How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion (Peggy McIntosh)
• I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin documentary by Raoul Peck)
• If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
• The “Indian Problem” (Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian)
• “Intergroup Anxiety”: Can You Try Too Hard to Be Fair? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton)
• King in the Wilderness (Peter Kunhardt)
• Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy that Shaped a Nation (David Belton)
• Let’s Get to the Root of Racial Injustice (Megan Ming Francis)
• Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible (World Trust)
• Native America (Scott Tiffany and Gary Glassman)
• Next Time Someone Says Racism Isn’t Real, Show Them This 3-Minute Video (Vox)
• P.S. I Can’t Breathe: Black Lives Matter (Rochelle ‘Leanne’ White)
• Reconstruction: America after the Civil War (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)
• See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol)
• Segregated By Design (Silkworm)
• Selma (Ava DuVernay)
• Slavery to Mass Incarceration (the Equal Justice Initiative)
• The Talk: Race in America (Sam Pollard)
• Terror Lynching in America (the Equal Justice Initiative)
• There is No Neutral (Michelle Johnson)
• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay)
• Bloomberg and The Legacy of Stop-and-Frisk (The Daily Show)
• White Privilege (Kyla Lacey)

1965 Special Report: “The New Negro” (Hezakya News)

Podcast series, individual episodes, and interviews

• 1619 (The New York Times)
• About Race (Panoply)
• Code Switch (NPR)
• Come Through with Rebecca Carroll (WNYC)
• George Floyd’s Death at the Hands of Police Is a Terrible Echo of the Past: Code Switch (NPR)
• A Historic Crossroads for Systemic Racism and Policing in America featuring Khalil Muhammad and Erica Chenoweth (Harvard Kennedy School)
• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
• Latino USA
• “Lean into Discomfort” When Talking about Race: Here & Now (WBUR)
• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
• Nice White Parents (The New York Times)
• Pod For The Cause The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
• Seeing White (Scene On Radio)
• Uncivil (Gimlet Media)
• Untying Knots (SoundCloud)
• Civility as a Tool for Keeping People of Color in Their Place: Code Switch (NPR)
• You Cannot Divorce Race From Immigration, Jose Antonio Vargas Says (NPR)
• Whistling Vivaldi (NPR)
• Side Effects of White Women (Small Doses – Amanda Seales)
• Well Meaning White People (Smartest Person in the Room)
• A Decade of Watching Black People Die (Code Switch)
• How to Be an Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi (Unlocking Us Podcast)
• Kaepernick (Still Processing)

White Lies (NPR)

Organizations to consider following on social media

• Antiracism Center: Twitter
• Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Justice League NYC: Twitter | Instagram + Gathering For Justice: Twitter | Instagram
• The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• The Movement For Black Lives (M4BL): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• RAICES: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• United We Dream: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

More anti-racism resources to check out

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice (Corinne Shutack)
• Anti-Racism Project
• Books and People to Follow (Jenna Arnold)
• Project Implicit (Harvard’s implicit bias test)
• Racial Justice Resources (Rachel Ricketts)
• Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism (Fractured Atlas)
• Save the Tears: White Woman’s Guide (Tatiana Mac)
• Showing Up For Racial Justice’s educational toolkits
• The [White] Shift on Instagram
• Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials
• Talking About Race – Whiteness (National Museum of African American History & Culture)
• Implicit Associations Test (Harvard University)
• Building a Multi-Ethnic, Inclusive & Antiracist Organization (Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence)
• Racial Equity Tools