“Racism is a powerful collection of racist policies that lead to racial inequality and are substantiated by racist ideas. Antiracism is a powerful collection of antiracist policies that lead to racial equality and are substantiated by antiracist ideas.”
Recommended books we’ve read and are reading
Ibram Kendi, How to Be an AntiRacist (One World, 2019).
Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998).
W.E.B. DuBois, “The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays.” (2014) Retrieved from https://ebookcentral.proquest.com
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018).
Ta Nehisi Coates, “A Case for Reparations,” The Atlantic. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
Joe Feagin, Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations. (New York: Routledge, 2014).
Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877 (New York, New York: HarperPerennial, 2014).
Ibram Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (New York: Nation Books, 2017).
Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1975).
E. W. Orser, Blockbusting in Baltimore: The Edmondson Village Story (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1994).
A. Pietila, Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2010).
Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (New York: Broadway Books, 2011).
Mindy Thomspon Fullilove, Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It (New York: New Village Press, 2016).