Selected Racial Literacy Resources
These listings, with current additions, were collected over the course of our 2016 Racial Literacy Series.
Basic Information About Race
- Race: The Power of an Illusion. California Newsreel. PBS
- Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (2020)
Anti-Racism
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (2016)
- How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi (2019)
Whiteness and White Privilege
- “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack” by Peggy McIntosh. 1989.
- “Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person” by Gina Crosley-Corcoran, 05/08/2014 Updated Jul 14, 2016
- “Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” and Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum. 1997.
- Waking up White by Debby Irving. 2014.
- “Finding Myself in the Story of Race?” Debby Irving, TedxFenway, July 20, 2015.
- Jane Elliott’s Blue eyes, brown eyes exercise.
- Understanding and Dismantling Privilege (interdisciplinary journal)
- The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter. 2010.
Microaggressions
- Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
- by Derald Wing Sue. 2010
American History
- General
- A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn (originally published 1980)
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen.
- National Museum of African American History and Culture. Washington, D.C.
- National Museum of the American Indian. Washington, D.C.
- Black Experience
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin.
- Between the World and Me by TeNehisi Coates.
- The 1619 ProjectThis Week in Black History [podcast]
- Indigenous Experience
- An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2014)
- The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man.
- Slavery
- The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward Baptist. 2014.
- Jim Crow
- Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon.
- Racial Cleansing
- Buried in Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America by Elliot Jaspin. 2008
- Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James W. Loewen. 2005
- Great Migration
- Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson.
- The Migration Series. Paintings by Jacob Lawrence.
- Lynching
- Lynching in America
- Southern horrors and other writings: the anti-lynching campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900 edited by Jacqueline Jones Royster. 1997
- Without Sanctuary; photographs and postcards of lynching in America. 2000-2005. http://withoutsanctuary.org/main.html
- Interracial Marriage
- Loving v. Virginia: No Longer a Black and White Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxpLSH8NPaw
- Mass Incarceration
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. 2010.
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. 2014.
- Trenton/Princeton Campaign to End the New Jim Crow
New Jersey History
- “’Steal Away, Steal Away’: A Guide to the Underground Railroad in New Jersey.”
Princeton, NJ History
- Princeton University
- “Looking Back: Reflections of Black Alumni at Princeton,” 1996
- Ebony and Ivy: race, slavery, and the troubled history of America’s universities by Craig Steven Wilder.
- African Americans and Princeton University: A Brief History http://libguides.princeton.edu/c.php?g=84056&p=544526
- Slavery at Princeton http://libguides.princeton.edu/c.php?g=84056&p=544524
- Princeton & Slavery https://slavery.princeton.edu/
- Blacks at Princeton (1746 to the present) http://www.blacksatprinceton.com/
- Princeton Theological Seminary
- Princeton Seminary and Slavery
- Princeton University
- “Looking Back: Reflections of Black Alumni at Princeton,” 1996
- Ebony and Ivy: race, slavery, and the troubled history of America’s universities by Craig Steven Wilder.
- African Americans and Princeton University: A Brief History
- Slavery at Princeton
- Princeton & Slavery
- Blacks at Princeton (1746 to the present)
- Princeton Theological Seminary
- Princeton Seminary and Slavery
Current Awareness
- FORTUNE raceAhead:culture and diversity in corporate America Ellen McGirt
- HuffPost Black Voices
- New York Times Race/Related
- NPR Code Switch Race and Identity Remixed podcast
- Embrace Race
- http://www.embracerace.org/
- Online community to discuss and share best practices for raising and caring for kids in the context of race.
- Citizenship & Social Justice
Source lists
- Jane Elliott’s bibliography
- Facing History and Ourselves
- Teaching Tolerance
- Community Change Inc.
- Raising Race Conscious Children
- Talking to Kids About Racism and Justice: a list for parents, caregivers & educators (Oakland Public Library)
- Racial Equity Tools
- Standing Rock Syllabus
- Leonard Pitts Jr.’s The Black List: Suggested Readings in African-American History.
- Zinn Education Project