In the spring of 2020 I finally figured out that I could not just feel bad about racism any longer and I started reading:
The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
The Color of Compromise, by Jemar Tisby discusses the American Christian church's complicity in racism and suggests ways to combat it.
All American Boys, by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely is a novel written from the perspective of two high school boys, one white and one black, and their experiences with police violence.
Becoming, by Michelle Obama
They Called Us Enemy, by George Takie and friends is a graphic novel about George's experience as a child in the Japanese internment camps during World War II.
How to be an Anti-Racist, by Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped: Racism, Anti-racism and You, by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds, is "not" a history book about racism in America.
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin DiAngelo, is about how many white people see racism as the horrific things bad people do and unintentionally perpetuate racism through our fear of the word.
Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, by Octavia Buttler, novels set in a dystopian society with a young black woman as the main protagonist.
And listening:
Code Switch with Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Demby, NPR
How to Citizen with Baratunde
To Read:
Courageous Conversations About Race by Glenn E Singleton, specifically written with educators in mind
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson "Ignorance is no protection from the consequences of inaction."
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