This is the start of list of resources, many of which are available in the Georgia Southern Libraries collections, on the topics of race, politics, economics, education and justice. We will be adding to this list over the next several weeks, and we will do our best to make sure to include links to the e-versions of these books while the campus is closed. This list and the guide are meant to help deepen our knowledge and understanding of these issues.
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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
The Illustrated Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois; Eugene F. Provenzo (Editor)
At the Dark End of the Street by Danielle L. McGuire
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
Assata, an autobiography by Assata Shakur
If They Come in the Morning by Angela Y. Davis
The Meaning of Freedom by Angela Y. Davis
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain by Langston Hughes
Waking from the Dream by David L. Chappell
Disintegration by Eugene Robinson
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man by Henry Louis Gates
Why We Can’t Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Peniel E. Joseph.
Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America by Martha S. Jones
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson.
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House by Audre Lorde
Prospects for Freedom by Malcolm X
Reconstruction by Eric Foner
African Americans, the Law, and Intellectual History: A Brief Review Essay | Society for U.S. Intellectual History
The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon
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My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? By Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out, by Ruth King
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Stamped From the Beginning: The definitive history of racist ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz
Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
How to be Less Stupid About Race by Crystal M. Fleming
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear” by Toni Morrison
Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line / Erin Aubrey Kaplan.
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy / Carol Anderson.
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, by Michael Eric Dyson
Understanding White Privilege by Frances E. Kendall
White Privilege by Paula S. Rothenberg
Reproducing Racism How Everyday Choices Lock in White Advantage by Daria Roithmayr
Uprooting Racism by Paul Kivel; Howard Zinn
You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have To Explain by Phoebe Robinson
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
Walking With The Wind: A Memoir Of The Movement by John Lewis and Mike D’Orso
How It Feels To Be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston
If We Must Die - Claude McKay
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker
Even This Page Is White by Vivek Shraya
Brown girl dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
I, Too - Langston Hughes
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange
The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead