Whiteness
DiAngelo, R. (2011). White fragility. The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 3(3). http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/download/249/116
Bergerson, A. A. (2003). Critical race theory and white racism: Is there room for white scholars in fighting racism in education? Qualitative Studies in Education, 16(1), 51-63. PDF
Leonardo, Z. (2004). The color of supremacy: Beyond the discourse of "white privilege." Educational Philosophy and Theory, 36(2), 137-152. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2004.00057.x
Lewis, A. E. (2004). “What group?” Studying Whites and Whiteness in the era of “colorblindness.” Sociological Theory, 22(4), 623-646. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.0735-2751.2004.00237.x
Anderson, C. (August 29, 2014)“Ferguson isn’t about black rage against cops. It’s white rage against progress.” Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ferguson-wasnt-black-rage-against-copsit-was-white-rage-against-progress/2014/08/29/3055e3f4-2d75-11e4-bb9b-997ae96fad33_story.html?utm_term=.b8ce65b3ef53
Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person by Gina Crosley-Corcoran
The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege by Robert Jensen
Invisible Privilege: What White Men Don't See by Mark Maier
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
All About Eve: White Studies and Getting Over Whiteness by David R. Roediger
White Spaces by Tobin Miller Shearer
The Trouble with White Women: An Interview with Kyla Schuller by Nawal Arjini
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (this is an article, not her full book, also called White Fragility)
Critical Race Theory
Book: Delgado, R., & Stefancic, J. (2017). Critical race theory: An introduction. NYU Press. (available online through Brown) Full text PDF: https://uniteyouthdublin.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/richard_delgado_jean_stefancic_critical_race_thbookfi-org-1.pdf
Bell, D. (1995) Who’s afraid of critical race theory? University of Illinois Law Review, 1995, 893–910. https://sph.umd.edu/sites/default/files/files/Bell_Whos%20Afraid%20of%20CRT_1995UIllLRev893.pdf
Introduction to Critical Race Theory syllabus by Professor Adrienne Keene, Brown University
Critical Race Theory: An Introduction by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic (full book)
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (preface by Jean-Paul Sartre)
Nietzche, Genealogy, History by Michel Foucault (From "Truth and Method")
Bell, D. A. (1979). Brown v. Board of Education and other interest convergence dilemma. Harvard Law Review, 93(3), 518-534. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1340546
Donnor, J. K. (2005). Towards an interest-convergence in the education of African American student athletes in major college sports. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 8(1), 45-67. PDF
Dudziak, M. L. (1988). Desegregation as a cold war imperative. Stanford Law Review, 41(1), 61-120. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1228836
Harper, S. R. (2009). Race, interest convergence, and transfer outcomes for Black male student athletes. In L. S. Hagedorn & D. Horton (Eds.), Student athletes and athletics. New Directions for Community Colleges (No. 147, Fall 2009, pp. 29-37). https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d627/5bf0d607b84a60509f0c6616da9ece0491bc.pdf
Milner, H. R. (2008). Critical Race Theory and interest convergence as analytical tools in teacher education policies and practices. Journal of Teacher Education, 59(4), 332-346. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0022487108321884
Taylor, E. (2000). Critical Race Theory and interest convergence in the backlash against affirmative action: Washington State and Initiative 200. Teachers College Record,102(3), 539-560.
OutCrit
Valdes, F. (1998). Theorizing OutCrit Theories: Coalitional Method and Comparative Jurisprudential Experience-RaceCrits, QueerCrits and LatCrits. U. Miami L. Rev., 53, 1265. http://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1660&context=umlr
Settler Colonialism and Tribal CRT
Wolfe, P. (2006). Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native. Journal of Genocide Research, 8(4), 387-409. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623520601056240
Brayboy, B. M. J. (2005). Toward a tribal critical race theory in education. The Urban Review, 37(5), 425-446. https://nau.edu/uploadedFiles/Academic/COE/Dine_Project/_Forms/Toward%20a%20Tribal%20Critical%20Race%20Theory%20in%20Education.pdf
Williams Jr, R. A. (1997). Vampires anonymous and critical race practice. Michigan Law Review, 741-765. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1290045
Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, education & society, 1(1). http://decolonization.org/index.php/des/article/download/18630/15554
Indigenous Encounters with Neoliberalism: Place, Women, and the Environment in Canada and Mexico by Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez. University of British Columbia Press, 2014. (introduction here)
Red Skins, White Masks: Rejecting Colonial Politics of Recognition by Glen Sean Coulthard. Univ Of Minnesota Press; First Edition (September 7, 2014)
Posts and Pasts: A Theory on Postcolonialism by Alfred J. Lopez (full book)
Zionists should be excluded from left-oriented protests by Steven Salaita
The Forgotten Slaves by Margaret Ellen Newell
Orientalism, Edward Said. Vintage Books, 1979. PDF of introduction here.
Unsettling settler colonialism: The discourse and politics of settlers, and solidarity with Indigenous nations by Corey Snelgrove, Rita Dhamoon, Jeff Corntassel
Decolonization is Not a Metaphor by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang (read our summary here)
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Zed Books; 2 edition (May 10, 2012)
“Decolonizing together: Moving Beyond a Politics of Solidarity Toward a Practice of Decolonization” by Harsha Walia
Whose Land is it Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization, edited by Peter MacFarlane and Nicole Schabus
QueerCrit:
Misawa, M. (2014). Professional identity development: An Asian queer crit perspective in adult and higher education. http://newprairiepress.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3633&context=aerc
Johnson, E. P. (2001). " Quare" studies, or (almost) everything I know about queer studies I learned from my grandmother. Text and Performance Quarterly, 21(1), 1-25.
KanakaCrit:
Salis Reyes, Nicole Alia. 2017. A Space for Survivance: Locating Kānaka Maoli through the Resonance and Dissonance of Critical Race Theory. Race Ethnicity and Education, (In Press).
DisCrit:
Annamma, S. A., Connor, D., & Ferri, B. (2013). Dis/ability critical race studies (DisCrit): Theorizing at the intersections of race and dis/ability. Race Ethnicity and Education, 16(1), 1-31.
LatCrit:
Lopez, I. F. H. (1998). Race, ethnicity, erasure: The salience of race to LatCrit theory. La Raza LJ, 10, 57. http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2822&context=facpubs
Villalpando, O. (2003). Self‐segregation or self‐preservation? A critical race theory and Latina/o critical theory analysis of a study of Chicana/o college students. Qualitative Studies in Education, 16(5), 619-646.
Alemán, Jr, E., & Alemán, S. M. (2010). ‘Do Latin@ interests always have to “converge” with White interests?’:(Re) claiming racial realism and interest‐convergence in critical race theory praxis. Race Ethnicity and Education, 13(1), 1-21.
Romero, M. (2008). Crossing the immigration and race border: A Critical Race Theory approach to immigration studies. Contemporary Justice Review, 11(1), 23-37.
AsianCrit:
Wing, A. K. (1999). USA 2050: Identity, Critical Race Theory, and the Asian century. Michigan Law Review, 99, 1390-1408. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1290389
BlackCrit:
Roberts, D. E. (1998). BlackCrit Theory and the problem of essentialism. University of Miami Law Review, 53, 855-862. http://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1634&context=umlr
Counterstorytelling through CRT Theories
Delgado Bernal, D. (2002). Critical Race Theory, Latino Critical Theory, and Critical Raced‐Gendered epistemologies: Recognizing students of color as holders and creators of knowledge. Qualitative Inquiry, 8(1), 105‐126. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/107780040200800107
Duncan, G.A. (2006). Critical Race Ethnography in Education: Narrative, Inequality and the Problem of Epistemology. In A.D. Dixson and C.K. Rousseau (Eds.) Critical Race Theory in Education: All God’s Children Got a Song. (191-212). New York: Routledge. ftp://ftp.uwc.ac.za/users/DMS/DMS%20vidComplete/CSI%20WEBSITE/CSI_SANPAD/16295807.pdf
Solórzano, D. G. & Yosso, T. J. (2002). Critical Race Methodology: Counter-Storytelling as an analytical framework for education research. Qualitative Inquiry, 8(1), 23-44. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/107780040200800103
Bell, D. (1992). The space traders. Faces at the bottom of the well: The permanence of racism, 175-76. http://whgbetc.com/the-space-traders.pdf
CRT in Education
Ladson-Billings, G. (1998). Just what is critical race theory and what’s it doing in a ‘nice’ field like education? International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 11(1), 7-24. PDF
Ladson-Billings, G., & Tate, W. F. (1995). Toward a critical race theory of education. Teachers college record, 97(1), 47. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/William_Tate/publication/279676094_Toward_a_Critical_Race_Theory_of_Education/links/569803e908aea2d74375dba0.pdf
Dixson, Adrienne D., and Celia K. Rousseau. "And we are still not saved: Critical race theory in education ten years later." Race ethnicity and education 8, no. 1 (2005): 7-27. PDF
Yosso, T. J. (2005). Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth. Race ethnicity and education, 8(1), 69-91. http://www.artslb.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Whose-culture-has-capital-A-critical-race-theory-discussion-of-community-cultural-wealth-Tara-Yosso.pdf
Solorzano, D., Ceja, M., & Yosso, T. (2000). Critical race theory, racial microaggressions, and campus racial climate: The experiences of African American college students. Journal of Negro Education, 60-73. https://www.middlesex.mass.edu/RLOs/748/Critical-Race-Theory.pdf
Harper, S. R. & Hurtado, S. (2007). Nine themes in campus racial climates and implications for institutional transformation. In S. R. Harper and L. Patton (Eds.), Responding to the Realities of Race on College Campuses, San Francisco, CA: Jossey- Bass. (New Directions in Student Services, Winter 2007, No. 120, pp. 7-24). https://www.gvsu.edu/cms4/asset/5D80BD51-996D-6AE0-B9D7668ADFEA7A31/nine_themes_in_campus_racial_climates_and_implications_for_institutional_transformation.pdf
Solórzano, D. G. (1998) Critical race theory, race and gender microaggressions, and the experience of Chicana and Chicano scholars. Qualitative Studies in Education, 11(1),121-136. http://medschool.ucla.edu/Workfiles/Site-Counting/CRTMicroaggressChicanoScholars.pdf
Truong, K. A., & Museus, S. D. (2012). Responding to racism and racial trauma in doctoral study: An inventory for coping and mediating relationships. Harvard Educational Review, 82(2), 226-254. https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/truong/files/Truong%20%26%20Museus%20%282012%29%20Responding%20to%20racism%20and%20racial%20trauma.pdf
CRT speaking to the current moment
Watch: Charlottesville: Race and Terror – VICE News Tonight on HBO (Youtube, 22 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P54sP0Nlngg
Charlottesville and the rise of white identity politics (fivethirtyeight): https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/charlottesville-and-the-rise-of-white-identity-politics/
López, I. H. (2015). Dog whistle politics: How coded racial appeals have reinvented racism and wrecked the middle class. Oxford University Press. (Prologue, Intro, and Conclusion)
James Baldwin, a letter to my nephew: http://progressive.org/magazine/letter-nephew/ (1962)
Martin Luther King Jr, Letter from Birmingham Jail: https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html (1963)
Lawrence , C. R., III, Matsuda, M. J., Delgado, R., & Crenshaw, K. W. (1993). Introduction. In C. R. Lawrence, III, M. J. Matsuda, R. Delgado, & K. W. Crenshaw (Eds.). Words that wound: Critical Race Theory, assaultive speech, and the first amendment (pp. 1-15).
Federal Judge Finds Racism Behind Arizona Law Banning Ethnic Studies (NPR): http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/08/22/545402866/federal-judge-finds-racism-behind-arizona-law-banning-ethnic-studies
CRT as Praxis, Hope, and moving forward
Yamamoto, E. K. (1997). Critical race praxis: Race theory and political lawyering practice in post-civil rights America. Michigan Law Review, 95(4), 821-900. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1290048
Stovall, D. O. (2004). School leader as negotiator: Critical Race Theory, praxis, and the creation of productive space. Multicultural Education, 12(2), 8-12. http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ781916.pdf
Stovall, D. O., Lynn, M., Danley, L., & Marin, D. (2009). Critical race praxis in education. Race, Ethnicity & Education, 12(2), 131-132.
Duncan-Andrade, J. (2009). Note to educators: Hope required when growing roses in concrete. Harvard Educational Review, 79(2), 181-194. http://crescendoedgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Duncan-Andrade-J.-2009-Hope-Required.pdf
Lorde, G. A. (1984). The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. In Audre Lorde, From sister outsider: Essays and speeches (pp. 110-113). Berkeley, CA: The Crossing Press. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/audre-lorde-the-master-s-tools-will-never-dismantle-the-master-s-house.a4.pdf
Racial Formations
Omi, M., & Winant, H. (2004). Racial formations. In M. Omi & H. Winant (Eds.), Racial formation in the United States, (2nd Edition) (pp. 3-13). New York, NY: Routledge. PDF
Haney López, I. F. (1994). The social construction of race. In Richard Delgado (Ed.) Critical Race Theory: The cutting edge (pp. 191-203). Philadelphia, PA: Temple University PDF
Massey, D. S. (2009). Racial formation in theory and practice: The case of Mexicans in the United States. Race and Social Problems, 1(1), 12-26. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2931357/
Winant, H. (2000). Race and race theory. Annual Review of Sociology, 26(1), 169-185. http://www.jstor.org/stable/223441
Kendi, I. X. (2016). Stamped from the beginning: The definitive history of racist ideas in America. Nation Books.
Permanence of Racism
Bell, D. (1987). And we are not saved: The elusive quest for racial justice. New York: Basic Books.
Bell, D. (1993). Faces at the bottom of the well: The permanence of racism. New York: Basic Books.
Bell, D. (2000). Wanted: A White leader able to free Whites of racism. UC Davis Law Review, 33(3), 527-544. http://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/33/3/Barrett/DavisVol33No3_Bell.pdf
Racism
Something more is required of us now. What? by Michelle Alexander
Teaching Hard History, Southern Poverty Law Center report on how slavery is taught
Rosa Parks poem, Atlanta Team of the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival
Teaching Resistance: The Racial Politics of Mass Media (from “Killing Rage, Ending Racism”) by bell hooks (read our summary here)
Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Edward Bonilla-Silva (full book) (read our summary here)
Defining Racism: Can we talk? by Beverley Daniel Tatum
The Complexity of Identity: "Who Am I?" by Beverley Daniel Tatum
Black Skins, White Masks by Franz Fanon (full book)
Teaching to Transgress: Education as a Practice of Freedom by bell hooks (full book)
Let America be American Again by Langston Hughes
Are you a racist? 'No' isn't a good enough answer, video commentary by Marlon James
5 Signs That I'm Struggling With Internalized Racism by Maisha Z. Johnson
How the Supreme Court Has Made it Impossible to Challenge Systemic Racism by Jennifer Louribel
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House by Audre Lorde
Unresolved Identities: Discourse, Ambivalence, and Urban Immigrant Students by Bic Ngo (full book)
Chapter 4, "Racial Formation" from Racial Formation in the United States from the 1960s to the 1990s by Michael Omi and Howard Winant
Hybridity: Limits, Transformations, Prospects by Anjali Prabhu (full book)
Emmet poem, Philadelphia Team, Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival
What's so critical about critical race theory? by A. Javier Trevino, Michelle A. Harris and Devon Wallace
Bring in Brown to Keep Black Down, poem by Alok Vaid-Menon (video)
Color film was built for white people. Here's what it did for dark skin. Vox video
Racism’s psychological toll by Jenna Wortham
Myth of the Welfare Queen: A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist's Portrait of Women on the Line. David Zucchino. Simon & Schuster; 1st edition (February 25, 1999)
Social media conversations about race An analysis by the Pew Research Center
Lynching in America interactive database
Indigeneity
Castagno, A. E. (2005). Extending the bounds of race and racism: Indigenous women and the persistence of the Black-White paradigm of race. Urban Review, 37(5), 447-468. (Link)
Intersectionality
Crenshaw, K. (1991). Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color. Stanford law review, 1241-1299. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1229039
Hancock, A.-M. (2007). When multiplication doesn’t equal quick addition: Examining intersectionality as a research paradigm. Perspectives in Politics, 5(1), 63-79. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20446350
Han, C.-s. (2008). No fats, femmes, or Asians: The utility of critical race theory in examining the role of gay stock stories in the marginalization of Asian men. Contemporary Justice Review, 11(1), 11-12.
Patton, L. D., & Simmons, S. L. (2008). Exploring complexities of multiple identities of lesbians in a Black college environment. The Negro Educational Review, 59(3), 197-215. Link (EBSCO)
Hancock, A.-M. (2005). W.E.B. DuBois: Intellectual forefather of intersectionality? Souls, 7(3), 74-84. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10999940500265508
Intersectional Feminism
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color by Kimberle Crenshaw
For Undocumented Women Seeking Reproductive Healthcare, Policing and Politics Create a Maze of Barriers by Xatherin Gonzalez
“Decolonizing the Queer Native Body (and Recovering the Native Bull-Dyke): Bringing ‘Sexy Back’ and Out of Native Studies’ Closet.” by Chris Finley
Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism edited by Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman. Seal Press; Live Girls edition (July 29, 2002)
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks (full book) or here
Selling Hot Pussy by bell hooks
Understanding Patriarchy by bell hooks
We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity by bell hooks (full book)
The Language of Gender Violence by Robert Keren
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde. Crossing Press; Reprint edition (August 1, 2007).
I am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde (full book)
Poetry is Not a Luxury by Audre Lorde
“Heterosexualism and the Colonial / Modern Gender System.” by Maria Lugones
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love, and So Much More by Janet Mock. Atria Books; Reprint edition (December 2, 2014)
Select Pieces from This Bridge Called My Back: Writings from Radical Women of Color edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua
Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity Chapter One by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamada Ngozi Adichie. Anchor; Reprint edition (February 3, 2015)
“Feminism and the (Trans)Gender Entrapment of Gender Nonconforming Prisoners,” by Julia Oparah, UCLA Women’s Law Journal 18.2 (2012), 239–71.
Sex, Power, and Consent: Youth Culture and Unwritten Rules by Anatasia Powell (full book)
Decolonizing Gender: A Curriculum by Malcolm Shanks and khari jackson (zine)
Fugitive Flesh: Gender Self-Determination, Queer Abolition, and Trans Resistance by Eric A. Stanley
Ain't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth
Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory edited by Michael Warner (full book)
“Two-spirit people, body sovereignty, and gender self-determination.” by Alexandria Wilson
Prison Industrial Complex
In the turmoil over race and policing, children pay a steep emotional price by Yamiche Alcindor
Field Trip to the Museum of Natural History, a poem by Franny Choi
Racialized Punishment and Prison Abolition by Angela Y. Davis
Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex by Angela Davis
The Gentrification-to-Prison Pipeline by Lacino Hamilton
The Grief That White Americans Can’t Share by Nikole Hannah-Jones
A Brief History of Slavery and the Origin of American Policing by Victor E. Kappeler
Transforming Carceral Logics: 10 Reasons to Dismantle the Prison Industrial Complex Through Queer Analysis and Action by S. Lamble
Excerpt from “The Prison-Industrial Complex: An Investment in Failure,”by Michael J. Love, May 1998.
Queering Anti-prison Work: African American Lesbians in the Juvenile Justice System by Beth Richie
Don't blame Black Lives Matter for provoking violence. The civil rights movement did, too. by Simone Sebastian
The New ‘Peculiar Institution’: On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto by Loic Wacquant
Globalisation and US prison growth: from military Keynesianism to post-Keynesian militarism by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
The “If Project” Amplifies the Voices of Women Behind Bars, by Elizabeth King
The Prison Paradox: Ending Mass Incarceration in the Era of Bill Cosby, by Jenn M. Jackson
The Fragility of Legalization: Who’s Cashing in on Marijuana? By Ashley Duchemin
The Pain of Mothering Over a Payphone from Prison, by Sarah Mirk
Sister Soldiers: On Black Women, Police Brutality, and the True Meaning of Black Liberation, by Tasha Fierce
Survived and Punished: How Criminalization and Incarceration Punish Abuse Survivors, by Victoria Law
One Boy Can Change The World: Remembering Trayvon Martin After His Death, by Victoria Law
Beyond Incarceration: What Could Accountability Look Like In Police Killings? By Victoria Law
As Activists, We Build The World We Want, Which Is Still Very Far Off, by Victoria Law
Black Girls Matter: This Report Shows How Racism Plays A Role in School Suspensions, by Victoria Law
Three Ways People Are Challenging The Prison System Right Now, by Victoria Law
What Does Justice Mean Besides Police and Prison? by Victoria Law
When the Officer Caught Me, a poem by Nate Marshall
Moving Towards Home, a poem by June Jordan
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. The New Press (January 16, 2012) Pdf of introduction available here.
Mass incarceration
Book: Alexander, M. (2012). The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. The New Press.
Angela Davis on prison abolition on Democracy Now
Video series by Reina Gossett and Dean Spade about prison abolition (part one of three)
Five Things to Know About Prison Abolition, from Autostraddle
Who’s Getting Rich Off the PIC, from VICE
Mass incarceration in America, explained in 22 maps and charts
The Sentencing Project has lots of amazing resources, including this Fact Sheet of US prison statistics
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Militarization of the Police
The Marshall Project’s data on DoD contributions to local police departments
The Crisis of Police Militarization, from the New Yorker
Precedent and Intentionality of the War on Drugs
Disproportionate Criminalization of Additional Communities
Additional information on transgender people and incarceration
Quartz article on Native Americans in the carceral system
Monetization of Prisons and Prison Labor
Watch minute 1:06:00 through 1:09:30 in Netflix’s 13th
List of companies that utilize prison labor
Reparations and Reconciliation
Matsuda, M. J. (1987). Looking to the bottom: Critical legal studies and reparations. Harv. Cr-cll rev., 22, 323. http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/hcrcl22&div=21&g_sent=1&collection=journals
Coates, T. “The Case for Reparations” (also available in audio format if you’d rather listen): https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
Wildcat, D. “Why Native Americans Don’t Want Reparations”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/06/10/why-native-americans-dont-want-reparations/?utm_term=.755f440f475e
The Henceforward (podcast on intersections of Native/Black communities), Episode 1: “Reparations” (55 min): http://www.thehenceforward.com/episodes/2016/7/8/episode-1-give-it-back
Racial Communities
A Black Feminist Roundtable On bell hooks, Beyonce, and “Moving Beyond Pain” by Lori Adelman
My Battle Against the Assumed Androgyny of Black Women by Aja Barber
“Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female,” in The Black Woman by Frances Beale.
Lemonade Syllabus by Candice Benbow, a pdf/book with over 200 art, literature, and historical resources celebrating black womanhood (named for Beyonce's 2016 visual album Lemonade)
Wild Seed by Octavia Butler (full book)
“Walking While Black” by Garnette Cadogan
“Black intellectuals, white audiences: Searching for tales of authentic blackness” by Matthew Clair
Teaching Hard History, Southern Poverty Law Center report on how slavery is taught
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Spiegel & Grau; 1 edition (July 14, 2015)
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins (full book)
Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination by Patricia Hill Collins
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat (Chapters 1-8)
Performance Practice as a Site of Opposition by bell hooks (from Let’s Get it On: The Politics of Black Performance, edited by Catherine Ugwu)
All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave edited by Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith. The Feminist Press at CUNY (January 1, 1993).
Black Women’s Safety at the Barbershop: Why Accountability is Pro-Black by Candice Iloh
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (full book)
Feminismos negros: Una antolgía edited by Mercedes Jabardo (full book in Spanish)
For the Record, a poem by Audre Lorde
An Open Letter to Mary Daly by Audre Lorde
The Autobiography of Malcom X. Ballantine Books; Reissue edition (November 1992).
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (full novel)
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Anchor (March 4, 2014).
“Toward a Critical Environmental Studies: Black Lives Matter as an Environmental Justice Challenge” by David Pellow
Caucasia by Danzy Senna. Riverhead Books; Reprint edition (February 1, 1999)
Black Feminism and Intersectionality by Sharon Smith
Plays by August Wilson, such as Gem of the Ocean, Radio Gulf, or Fences.
The Black Radical Tradition, a massive pdf including more than 500 pages of writing by authors such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., Frances M. Beal, the Combahee River Collective, I Wor Kuen, and more (table of contents included). Learn more here.
Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, comic from the 1950s
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua. Aunt Lute Books; Fourth Edition edition (June 12, 2012) pdf of chapters 1-3 here and chapters 5-7 here
"Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers" by Gloria Anzaldua (read our summary here)
How to Tame a Wild Tongue by Gloria Anzaldua
Decolonize Your Diet: Plant-Based Mexican-American Recipes for Health and Healing by Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel. Arsenal Pulp Press (2015).
Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma by Anna Castillo, Plume; 2nd edition (September 1, 1995).
Latino Cultures in the US - digital archive
Latina Feminism: National and Transnational Perspectives by Cherise Charleswell
Cuentos: Stories by Latinas edited by Alma Gómez, and Cherríe Moraga, and Mariana Romo-Carmona. Out of print, but find a pdf of the introduction here.
The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (full book)
Latina Feminism: National and Transnational Perspectives by Cherise Charleswell
En La Lucha/In the Struggle: Elaborating a Mujerista Theology by Ada María Isasi-Díaz. Fortress Press (2009).
Entre Mundos/Between Worlds: New Perspectives on Gloria Anzaldua edited by AnaLouise Keating
Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity by Aurora Levins Morales. South End Press (1999).
I Am Not Better Than My Mami by Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez
Invisible No More: Understanding the Disenfranchisement of Latino Men and Boys by Pedro Noguera, Aída Hurtado, Edward Fergus. Routledge (2011)
Neustra America by Jose Marti. En espagnol or in English (full book).
A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings 2000 - 2010 by Cherrie Moraga. Duke University Press; 2011.
Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism edited by Uriel Quesada, Letitia Gomez, and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz. University of Texas Press (2015)
Are Hispanics White? by Franchesca Ramsey, MTV Decoded (video)
Xicanisma: The Chicana Feminist & Her Movement by Nicole Akoukou Thompson
Chicana Without Apology: The New Chicana Cultural Studies by Eden E. Torres. Routledge; 2003.
Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About by Carla Trujillo. Third Woman Press (1991).
Decolonize Your Mind: The Roots and Power of Xicanisma by Venceremos
Abolish Columbus Day resources from the Zinn Education Project
Native Lives Matter by the Lakota Law Project (report on police brutality)
Our own Native Lives Matter Syllabus (also linked in the menu bar)
Pablo Eisenberg Native American Literature Collection, Amherst University. Collection of over 1,400 texts written by Native Americans from 1772 to the present.
#StandingRockSyllabus (resources about settler-colonialism, environmental racism, and the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline)
Gathering of Spirit: A Collection by North American Indian Women edited by Beth Brant (Degonwadonti). Firebrand Books; Revised edition (January 1, 1989)
Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West by Ned Blackhawk. Harvard University Press (April 30, 2008) Introduction here
Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community by Brenda Child. Penguin Books; Reprint edition (January 29, 2013)
Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940. by Brenda Child. University of Nebraska Press (February 1, 2000)
inVISIBILITY: Indigenous in the city - Indigenous artists, Indigenous youth and the project of survivance by Susan Dion and Angela Salmanca
Dakota 38 Full Documentary (about contemporary commemorations of the Dakota War and the subsequent execution of 38 Dakota men)
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria Jr. University of Oklahoma Press; (1st,1969) edition (1988) Chapter 3: The Disastrous Policy of Termination here
Refusal to forgive: Indigenous women’s love and rage by Rachel Flowers
Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations by Mishuana Goeman. Univ Of Minnesota Press (April 12, 2013). (conclusion here)
Solarize-ing Native hip-hop: Native feminist land ethics and cultural resistance by Jenell Navarro
The Familiar Face of Genocide: Internalized Oppression among American Indians by Lisa Poupart
The “law and order” of violence against Native Women: A Native feminist analysis of the Tribal Law and Order Act by Kimberly Robertson
Race, tribal nation, and gender: A Native feminist approach to belonging (zine) by Renya Ramirez
Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Geronimo, Tecumseh and other Heroes of Native Resistance by Vincent Schilling
Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States by Audra Simpson. Duke University Press Books (May 9, 2014) (chapter one available here)
Queering Resurgence: Taking on Heteropatriarchy in Indigenous Nation Building by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Indict the System: Indigenous and Black Connected Resistance by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
The Misery of Settler Colonialism: Roundtable on Glen Coulthard’s Red Skin, White Masks and Audra Simpson’s Mohawk Interruptus by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii by Huanani-Kay Trask (University of Hawaii Pr; Rev Sub edition (June 1999).
Learning from the Land: Indigenous Land Based Pedagogy and Decolonization by Matthew Wildcat, Mandee McDonald, Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox, and Glen Coulthard
From a Native Trans daughter: Roots of an Indigenous Abolitionist Imaginary by Kalaniopua Young
Whose Land is it Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization, edited by Peter MacFarlane and Nicole Schabus
After: Poems by Fatimah Asghar. Yes Yes Books (2015). See TedX talk here.
The Audacity to Dream: On Asian Women, Feminism, and My Grandmother by Karissa Chen
Asian Eyes: Westernized Beauty Standards and Asian Identity by Julie Feng
Miss Cylon: Empire and Adoption in "Battlestar Galactica" by Juliana Hu Pegues
The Invisibility of Asian Americans – Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Densho Encyclopedia: resources on Japanese American internment in WWII
Passing It On by Yuri Kochiyama. UCLA Asian American Studies Press Center (2004)
At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 by Erika Lee. The University of North Carolina Press; First Paperback Edition edition (May 19, 2003)
The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writing by Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bisexual Women by Sharon Lim-Hing. Sister Vision (August 26, 1998)
Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics by Lisa Lowe. Duke University Press Books (1996)
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang. Square Fish; Reprint edition (December 23, 2008)
Coming Home: Queer South Asians and The Politics of Family by Alok-Vaid Menon
Song I Sing Poems by Bao Phi. Coffee House Press (2011)
From Orphan to Adoptee: U.S. Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption by SooJin Pate.Univ Of Minnesota Press (April 14, 2014)
Feminism and Race: Just Who Counts As a ‘Woman of Color’? by Lindsey Yoo
To live in the borderlands mean you... by Gloria Anzaldua (poem)
Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas 1850-2000 by Suzanne Bost
Bill of Rights for People of Mixed Heritage by Maria P. Root
Caucasia by Danzy Senna. Riverhead Books, 1999.
Love is Colorblind: Reflections of a Mixed Girl by Jeni C. Wright
100Metis - A website featuring videos by Metis people talking about their identity (available in English and French)
Community/Self-Care
Subversive Self-Care: Centering Black Women’s Wellness by Shanesha Brooks-Tatum
Love as Political Resistance: Lessons from Audre Lorde and Octavia Butler by adrienne maree brown
Radical Self-Love Means Radical Self-Care by Julie Feng
Love as the Practice of Freedom (from “Outlaw Culture”) by bell hooks
On Self Recovery (from “Talking Back: thinking feminist, thinking black”) by bell hooks
Self-Care For People of Color After Psychological Trauma by Jasmine
The Mystery of Holding by Matt Licata
Uses of the Erotic: Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde or here
The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism by Audre Lorde (slightly blurry) or here (webpage, not pdf)
The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action by Audre Lorde
Ode to Shea Butter, a poem by Angel Nafis
A short instructional manifesto for relationship anarchy by Andie Nordgren
The Radical Politics of Self Love and Self Care by SooJin Pate
Twerking as a Radical Act of Healing, a poem by Danez Smith
Self-Care and Social Justice Work by Quita Tinsley
The Activists Speak: On Cultivating a Radical, Revolutionary Self Love by Chelcee and Maia Williams
Emotional Labor: The MetaFilter Thread Condensed
Community/Self-Care Resources
Doll Hospital - A literature and art magazine that takes an intersectional approach to mental health
Everything is Awful and I'm Not Okay: Questions to ask yourself before giving up - A PDF
Healing Packet by Women of Color in solidarity - With readings suggestions, herbal remedies, and more
I am Not White and I have an Eating Disorder support group
Nalgona Positivity Pride - Eating disorder awareness and body positivity for people of color
Rest for Resistance - Resources for queer and trans people of color
Self Care Playlist by Doll Hospital
Self Care/Collective-care - A collective, morphing google doc with suggestions for self care
Self Love Playlist by POC Online Classroom (we continually update!)
Support Group for People of Color with Eating Problems
This Body is Not An Apology - A website focused on radical self love of every body
You Feel Like Shit: An Interactive Self-Care Guide
Sources: Dr. Adrienne Keene, POC Online Class