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Ten Documentaries to Watch About Race (instead of asking a person of color to explain things to you)

Books & Other Anti-Racism Resources & Learning Materials

  • The Warmth of Other Suns

  • Stony the Road

  • Stamped from the Beginning (I. Kendi)

  • The Aryan Myth (L. Poliakov)

  • The Counter-revolution of 1776

  • Sister Outsider (A. Lourde)

  • The Half has Never been Told

  • Is Everyone Really Equal?

  • Thicker than Blood (Zuberi)

  • Fearing the Black Body (S. Strings)

  • All About Love - by b. hooks

  • Black Faces, White Spaces

  • Seeing White

  • Why I'm no Longer Talking to White People about Race

  • The New Jim Crow

  • I'm Judging You

  • A People's History of the United States

  • Shannon Sullivan's book "Good White People

  • The Problem With White Middle Class Anti-Racism" Killers of the Dream (L. Smith)

  • Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald

  • Colorblind Racism, Meghan Burke 

  • How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi 

  • Racist America: Roots, Current Realities and Future Reparations, Joe R. Feagin and Kimberley Ducey 

  • White Fragility, Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo

  • The Fire Next Time (J. Baldwin)

  • Between the World and Me (T. Coates)

  • So You Want to Talk about Race (I. Oluo)

  • Blind Spot (Manaji & Greenwald)

  • Me and White Supremacy (L. Saad)

  • White Fragility

  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  • The New Jim Crow

  • An African American and LaintX History of the United States

  • The Possessive Investment in Whiteness (G. Lipsitz)

  • Whistling Vivaldi

  • You Can't Touch my Hair

  • Such a Fun Age

  • Five Smooth Stones

  • Philadelphia Fire (J. Wideman)

  • The Strange Career of Jim Crow

  • Killers of the Dream

  • How to be Anti-racist (I. Kendi)

  • Brene Brown podcast with Ibram X. Kendi on this topic: CLICK HERE 

  • 1968 in America

  • The Souls of Black Folk

  • “The Power of Expectations,” Invisibilia [podcast] - NPR: Can you affect another person’s behavior with your thoughts?