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
Edward W. Said– Orientalism
Frantz Fanon- The Wretched of The Earth; Black Skin, White Masks
Harsha Walia– Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
James Cone: Black Theology and Black Power; A Black Theology of Liberation; The Cross and The Lynching Tree
James Baldwin- The Fire Next Time
Joe Feagin– The White Racial Frame; Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression
Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba– Let this Radicalize You
Noel Ignatiev– How the Irish Became White; Treason to Whiteness Is Loyalty to Humanity
Malcom X– The Autobiography of Malcom X
Michelle Alexander– The New Jim Crow
MONIQUE W. MORRIS- PUSHOUT: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF BLACK GIRLS IN SCHOOLS
Nell Irvin Painter- The History of White People
Paulo Freire– The Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Patricia Hill Collins– Black Feminist Thought
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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