Education

A list, in no way comprehensive, of great reads for us white people trying to learn how to be better human beings:

Albert Memmi– The Colonizer and the Colonized

Assata Shakur– Assata: An Autobiography

bell hooks: Black Looks: Race and Representation

Chinua Achebe– Things Fall Apart

David Roediger- The Construction of Whiteness: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity; Black on White

Dalton Conley– Being Black, Living in the Red

Daisy Hernández Bushra Rehman– Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism

Derrick Bell- Faces At The Bottom of The Well; And We Are Not Saved

DisCrit―Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education (Disability, Culture, and Equity Series)

Edward W. Said– Orientalism

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

Joe Feagin– The White Racial Frame; Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression

Noel Ignatiev– How the Irish Became White

Malcom X– The Autobiography of Malcom X

Michelle Alexander– The New Jim Crow

MONIQUE W. MORRIS- PUSHOUT: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF BLACK GIRLS IN SCHOOLS

Paulo Freire– The Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Patricia Hill Collins– Black Feminist Though

Saul Alinsky– Rules For Radicals

Toni Morrison– The Bluest Eyes

Tony Horwitz– Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War 

W.E.B.- DU BOIS- The Souls of Black Folk

Zora Neale Hurston–Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo

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