A list, in no way comprehensive, of great reads for us white people trying to learn how to be better human beings.
bell hooks: Black Looks: Race and Representation
Robin DiAngelo: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Derrick Bell- Faces At The Bottom of The Well; And We Are Not Saved
Frantz Fanon- The Wretched of The Earth; Black Skin, White Masks
James Cone: Black Theology and Black Power; A Black Theology of Liberation
James Baldwin- The Fire Next Time
David Roediger- The Construction of Whiteness: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity; Black on White
http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/
Noel Ignatiev– How the Irish Became White
Joe Feagin– The White Racial Frame
Malcom X– The Autobiography of Malcom X
Assata Shakur– Assata: An Autobiography
Toni Morrison– The Bluest Eyes
Michelle Alexander– The New Jim Crow
Chinua Achebe– Things Fall Apart
Albert Memmi– The Colonizer and the Colonized
Edward W. Said– Orientalism
Paulo Freire– The Pedagogy of the Oppressed
