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Articles and books centering race, culture and colonialism
Articles on Intersectionality and Race(ism)
America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us, Adam Serwer
A Primer on Race/ism, Dr. Shay-Akil McLean
Confronting Racist Objects, Logan Jaffe
Decolonization is for Everyone, Nikki La'es (YouTube)
How Race and Gender Interact to Shape Inequality, Dr. Shay-Akil McLean
I'm An Indigenous Woman, & This Is What I Think Of Your "PocaHottie" Costume, Jordan Marie Daniel
Not your spirit animal: Cultural appropriation, misinformation, and the Internet, Donyae
Race/Ethnicity Newletter, New York Times
Racism and Ablism, Isabella Kres-Nash
The Impact of Homophobia and Racism on GLBTQ Youth of Color, Emily Bridges
The Impact of Racism on Children's Health, Perri Klass
The Intersectionality Wars, Jane Coaston
The Overlooked History of Black People with Disabilities, Vilissa Thompson
The Racial Wealth Gap, Brian Thompson
Useful Ways to Give Support Without Tweeting, Brittany Packnett Cunningham
Who Gets to be Afraid in America, Ibram X. Kendi
Why Algorithms Can be Racist and Sexist, Rebecca Heilweil (white author)
Why Black Trans People Can't Trust Doctors to Save Our Lives, Devin-Norelle
Why Won't We Let Black Girls Be Children, A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez
Articles on Historical Context
Black & Indigenous People Have More Shared History Than You’d Think, Eryn Wise
My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant, Jose Antonio Vargas
Thanksgiving: The National Day of Mourning, Allen Salway
The American Nightmare, Ibram X. Kendi
The Case for Reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Death of George Floyd in Context, Jelani Cobb
The Injustice of this Moment is Not an Aberration, Michelle Alexander
The Unmattering of Black Lives, Kimberlé Crenshaw
Articles on Whiteness
Confronting Racism is Not About the Needs and Feelings of White People, Ijeoma Oluo
How White People Can Hold Each Other Accountable to Stop Institutional Racism, Elly Belle (white author)
How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror, Charles Blow
So You Want to Fight White Supremacy, Ijeoma Oluo
The Culture of Whiteness, James Mulholland (white author)
The Most Dangerous Person in America is the White Woman, Danielle Slaughter
The Subtle Linguistics of Polite White Supremacy, Yawo Brown
The Year I Gave Up White Comfort: An Ode to my White "Friends" on Being Better to Black Womxn, Rachel Ricketts
When Feminism is White Supremacy in Heels, Rachel Cargle
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Peggy McIntosh
Why White Women Need to Get Out of the Way, Rachel Rickets
Your White Education, Tiffany Jana
Nonfiction Books
Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Noble
An Indigenous People's History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons, Imani Perry
Eloquent Rage, Brittney Cooper
Fatal Intervention, Dorothy Roberts
Hood Feminism, Mikki Kendall
How To Be Antiracist, Ibram X, Kendi
How We Fight for Our Lives, Saeed Jones
Me and White Supremacy, Layla Saad
Notes on a Native Son, James Baldwin
On Intersectionality, Kimberlé Crenshaw
Rage Becomes Her, Soraya Chemaly
Rage Inside The Machine, Rob Smith (white author)
Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde
So You Wanna Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, Michael Dyson
Tell Me Who You Are, Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi
The Condemnation of Blackness, Khalil Gibran Muhammad
The History of White People, Nell Irvin Painter
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House, Audre Lorde
The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power, Desmond Cole
The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson
They Were Her Property, Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
Undoing Border Imperialism, Harsha Walia
Waiting Til The Midnight Hour, Peniel E. Jospeh
White Fragility, Robin Diangelo (white author)
White Negroes: When Cornrows Were In Vogue, Lauren Michele Jackson
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, Carol Anderson
White Tears, Brown Scars, Ruby Hamad
Why I'm No Longer Talking About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
Memoir Books
Assata An Autobiography, Assata Shakur
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Book of Delights, Ross Gay
Good Talk, Mira Jacobs
From the Ashes, Jesse Thistle
Heavy: An American Memoir, Kiese Laymon
Invisible Man Got the Whole World Watching, Michael Denzel Smith
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Austin Channing Brown
Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
Love Thy Neighbour, Ayaz Virji
March, John Lewis
Nigger, Dick Gregory
No Ashes in the Fire, Darnell L. Moore
She Came to Slay, Erica Armstrong Dubar
Survival Math, Mitchell S. Jackson
Well Read Black Girl, curated by Gloria Edim
When They Call You a Terrorist, Patrisse Cullors & ashe bandele
Fiction Books
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Erasure, Percival Everett
On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
Song of the Shank, Jeffery Renard Allen
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead
There There, Tommy Orange
The Traveller, Regina Porter
The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Poetry Books
Beating the Graves, Tsitsi Ella Jaji
Be Holding, Ross Gay
Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine
Her Blue Body, Warsan Shire
Homie, Danez Smith
Post Colonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, Warsan Shire
The Fire This Time, Jesmyn Ward
Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith