Reading List of Current Books on Challenging Racism
Prepared by Beverly E. Mitchell, Ph.D., for Sky Above Zen
White Authors Challenging White Supremacy
- Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
- Robin Di Angelo, White Fragility
- Frances Kendall, Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race (Teaching/Learning Social Justice)
- Paul Kivel, Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
Authors of Color Challenging White Supremacy
- James Baldwin, Fire Next Time
- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
- Ta-Nehesi Coates, Between the World and Me
- Ibram X. Kendi, How to be an Anti-Racist
- Derald Wing Sue, Racism Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race
- George Yancy, Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America
American Histories of People of Color
- Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
- Paul Ortiz, An African American and Latinx History of the U.S.
- Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America.