Race and Racism are big topics. To start we've broken them down into four categories: (1) Racial and Identity Consciousness; (2) History of Race and Racism; (3) Institutional Racism; and (4) Biases, Microaggressions, and Stereotypes. Use the Table of Contents below to take you straight to a section or scroll down to peruse them all. Using the prompts from our homepage may help you to reflect on the content on your own or with others in conversation:
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Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, and Identity
The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity
1619
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
A Peoples History of the United States
American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World
America's Original Sin
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States
Birth of a White Nation, The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today
Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Stamped from the Beginning
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority
The Condemnation of Blackness
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
White Rage
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
Just Mercy
Long Way Down (Grade 7+)
Pushout
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
The Great Debaters (2007)
Trudell (2005)
"All the Real Indians Died Off" and 20 Myths about Native Americans
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative
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