What’s on Wen’s book shelf

Ain’t I a Woman by bell hooks

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde 

Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin 

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin 

Beloved by Toni Morrison 

Think like a White Man by Dr Boule Whytelaw III

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad

Books to help you understand & fight white supremacy

This is an Australian book company, but well worth looking at their recommendations.

 Amplify Melanated Voices 

This list of books has been curated by Victoria Alexander.  Follow her on social media: Instagram and twitter.

Anti-Racist Starter Kit:

1. Stamped from the Beginning – Ibram X Kendi
2. A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn (There is a “young people’s” version for elementary and middle school readers)
3. White Fragility – Robin Diangelo
4. So you want to talk about race – Ijeoma Oluo
5. I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness – Austin Channing Brown
6. Me and White Supremacy – Layla F Saad
7. Stamped – Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi

Anti Racist List Black LGBTQ+:

1. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
2. Zami – Audre Lorde
3. Real Life – Brandon Taylor
4. Unapologetic A black, queer, and feminist Mandate for Radical Movements – Charlene A Carruthers
5. No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies – E. Patrick Johnson
6. Since I Laid My Burden Down – Brontez Purnell
7. The Other Side of Paradise – Staceyann Chin
8. No Ashes in the Fire – Darnell L. Moore
9. The Summer We Got Free – Mia McKenzie
10. Black Like Me – John Howard Griffin
11. Rising Out of Hatred – Eli Saslow
12. Black On Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity – C. Riley Snorton

Anti-Racist Lit; Bios, Non-fiction, novels, personal narratives:

1. The Warmth of Other Sons – Isabel Wilkerson
2. The Fire Next time – James Baldwin
3. Malcolm X – Alex Haley
4. Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
5. Killing Rage Ending Racism – bell hooks
6. Becoming – Michelle Obama
7. An American By Marriage – Tayari Jones
8. A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota –
9. The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother – James McBride
10. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption – Bryan Stevenson
11. The Myth Of Race – Robert Sussman
12. Anti-Racist Lit – Black Feminism:
13. How we Get Free – Keeanga-Yamhtta Taylor
14. Black Feminists Thought – Patricia Hill Collins
15. Ain’t I a Woman Black Women and Feminism – Bell Hooks
16. Bad Feminist – Roxane Gay
17. Eloquent Rage – Brittney Cooper
18. In Search of Our Mothers Gardens – Alice Walker
19. Sister Outsider – Audre Lorde
20. Women Race & Class – Angela Y Davis
21. Assata: An Autobiography – Assata Shakur
22. To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe – Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande

Anti-Racist Intermediate Kit:

1. The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America – Anders Walker
2. The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
3. The Condemnation of Blackness – Khalil Gibran Muhammad
4. Dying of Whiteness – Jonathan Metzl
5. A Different Mirror – Ronald Takaki
6. How to be an AntiRacist – Ibram X Kendi
7. How the South Won the Civil War – Heather Cox Richardson
8. Evicted – Matthew Desmond
9. Nobody – Marc Lamont Hill
10. Lies My Teacher Told Me – James W Loewen
11. Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria – Berver Doniel Tatum, PhD
12. The Color of Law – Richard Rothstein
13. Blackballed – Darryl Pinkney

RESOURCES & TOOLS REGARDING RACISM & ANTI/BLACKNESS & How to be a Better Ally

This 1 pager includes links to articles, books, petitions, podcasts, films and resources for teachers. Compiled by Tatum Dorrell, Matt Herndon, Jourdan Dorrell.

UK EDUCATIONAL ANTI-RACIST EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES 

This google doc contains info on organisations and campaigns to support. Books, including children’s books, documentaries and talks, films, articles, podcasts, courses. Compiled by S. Adetoro @msadetoro 

BLACK HISTORY MONTH LIBRARY

This extensive library of resources includes black feminism, film, newspapers, speeches and more. Folders with information about Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks to name just a few. 

ABOUT RACE WITH RENI EDDO-LODGE

CODE SWITCH

What’s CODE SWITCH? It’s the fearless conversations about race that you’ve been waiting for! Hosted by journalists of colour the podcast tackles the subject of race head-on. Exploring how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and everything in between.

NO COUNTRY FOR YOUNG WOMEN

Life, love and work in a white man’s world. Two women discuss what it’s like being British woman of colour in the UK today and all their experiences.

INTERSECTIONALITY MATTERS

SOOO MANY WHITE GUYS

THE YIKES PODCAST