Citizen Action of New York’s Anti-Racism Reading List
As our families push through the ripple effects of COVID-19, participate in the nationwide uprising for Black lives, and prepare for one of the most important elections of our time, our organizers and volunteers created a racial justice reading list to inform the history of systemic racism and fuel the direction for change.
Through our Anti-Racism Reading List, we’re uplifting the voices and wisdom of activists, freedom fighters, professors and more to help us build stronger communities .
Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria
Beverly Tatum
I Am Not Your Negro
James Baldwin
White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Asha Bandele and Patrisse Cullors
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
Sonya Renee Taylor
A People’s History of the United States
Howard Zinn
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Brittney Cooper
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
Bettina Love
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy)
Adrienne Maree Brown
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Resmaa Menakem
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters (Reading Rainbow Books)
John Steptoe
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
Morgan Jerkins
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
Labyrinth of a Melaninated Being: A Collection of Poems
poetik
From Superman to Man
J.A. Rogers
Citizen
Claudia Rankine
Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin
Dutchman
Amiri Baraka
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X and Alex Haley
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood
Chris Emdin
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior
Marimba Ani
The Africa centered perspective of history and social sciences in the twenty-first century
C. Tsehloane Keto
Black Looks: Race and Representation
bell hooks
Waking Up White
Debby Irving
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power
James Tracy & Amy Sonnie
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein
