Critical Race Theory Matters: Education and Ideology

Written by Margaret Zamudio, Christopher Russell, & Francisco Rios

"Critical Race Theory Matters provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of this influential movement, shining its keen light on specific issues within education."

On Critical Race Theory : Why it Matters & Why You Should Care

Written by Victor Ray

"What exactly is critical race theory? This concise and accessible exploration demystifies a crucial framework for understanding and fighting racial injustice in the United States."

Critical Race Theory : The Key Writings that Formed the Movement

Edited by Kimberle Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, & Kendall Thomas 

"Edited by its principal founders and leading theoreticians, Critical Race Theory was the first book to gather the movement’s most important essays. It is essential reading in an age of acute racial injustice."

Seeing race again : countering colorblindness across the disciplines

Edited by Kimberle Crenshaw

"This book challenges scholars and students to see race again. Examining the racial histories and colorblindness in fields as diverse as social psychology, the law, musicology, literary studies, sociology, and gender studies."

Critical Race Theory : An Introduction

Written by Richard Delgado

"The new edition also covers the ways in which other societies and disciplines adapt its teachings and, for readers wanting to advance a progressive race agenda, includes new questions for discussion, aimed at outlining practical steps to achieve this objective."

Critical Race Theory in Education: A Scholar's Journey (Multicultural Education Series)

Written by Gloria Ladson-Billings

"This important volume brings together key writings from one of the most influential education scholars of our time. In this collection of her seminal essays on critical race theory (CRT), Gloria Ladson-Billings seeks to clear up some of the confusion and misconceptions that education researchers have around race and inequality."

Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory

Edited by Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge R. López-McKnight

"In Knowledge Justice, Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color scholars use critical race theory (CRT) to challenge the foundational principles, values, and assumptions of Library and Information Science and Studies (LIS) in the United States. They propel CRT to center stage in LIS, to push the profession to understand and reckon with how white supremacy affects practices, services, curriculum, spaces, and policies."

Handbook of Critical Race Theory in Education

Edited by Marvin Lynn and Adrienne D. Dixson

"This handbook illustrates how education scholars employ Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a framework to bring attention to issues of race and racism in education. It covers innovations in educational research, policy and practice in both schools and in higher education, and the increasing interdisciplinary nature of critical race research."

Born Out of Struggle : Critical Race Theory, School Creation, and the Politics of Interruption

Written by  David Omotoso Stovall

"Offering important lessons about how to remain accountable to communities while designing a curriculum with a social justice agenda, Stovall explores the use of critical race theory to encourage its practitioners to spend less time with abstract theories and engage more with communities that make a concerted effort to change their conditions. Stovall provides concrete examples of how to navigate the constraints of working with centralized bureaucracies in education and apply them to real-world situations.

So You Want to Talk About Race

Written by Ijeoma Oluo 

"In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from police brutality and cultural appropriation to the model minority myth in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race, and about how racism infects every aspect of American life."

Critical Race Theory: A Primer

Written by Khiara M. Bridges 

"This highly-readable primer on Critical Race Theory (CRT) examines the theory’s basic commitments, strengths, and weaknesses. The book can be used by any reader seeking to understand the relationship between constructions of race and the law."

Multicultural Education for Educational Leaders: Critical Race Theory and Antiracist Perspectives

Edited by Abdul Pitre & Tawannah G. Allen   

"Multicultural Education for Educational Leaders: Critical Race Theory and Antiracist Perspectives is a riveting book that contains a compilation of powerful essays that cogently argue why multicultural education is important for educational leaders. Using a critical multicultural framework the contributors of this powerful book highlight the varying ways racism finds its way into schools."

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism

Written by Robin Diangelo 

In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to 'bad people'" (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue.

How to be an Antiracist

Written by Ibram X. Kendi

Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes listeners through a widening circle of antiracist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities—that will help listeners see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.

Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, And The First Amendment

Written by Mari J Matsuda  

This book demonstrates how critical race theory can be brought to bear against both conservative and liberal ideology to motivate a responsible regulation of hate speech. The impact of feminist theory is also evident throughout. The authors have provided a rare and powerful example of the application of critical theory to a real-life problem.This timely and necessary book will be essential reading for those experiencing the conflicts of free-speech issues on campus?students, faculty, administrators, and legislators?as well as for scholars of jurisprudence. It will also be a valuable classroom tool for teachers in political science, sociology, law, education, ethnic studies, and women's studies.

Critical Race Theory and Inequality in the Labour Market

Written by Ebun Joseph

Critical Race Theory and Inequality in the Labour Market: Racial Stratification in Ireland is a timely exploration of racial stratification and how it shapes starting positions and generates differential outcomes in the labor market. From the outset, Joseph makes it clear that we should not be interested in race per se, but rather in how race is used and the consequences that this has. 

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Written by Michelle Alexander

This book argues that the U.S. criminal justice system is being used as a contemporary system of racial control even as it adheres to the principle of colorblindness. The author states that despite the election of Barack Obama, the United States has not ended the use of racial caste, instead it has merely redesigned it by targeting Black men through the War on Drugs and the decimation of communities of color.

Critical Race Feminism: A Reader

Edited by Adrien Katherine Wing

Critical Race Feminism presents over 40 readings on the legal status of women of color by leading authors and scholars such as Anita Hill, Lani Guinier, Kathleen Neal Cleaver, and Angela Harris. The collection gives voice to Black, Latina, Asian, Native American, and Arab women, and explores both straight and queer perspectives. Both a forceful statement and a platform for change, the anthology addresses an ambitious range of subjects, from life in the workplace and motherhood to sexual harassment, domestic violence, and other criminal justice issues. Extending beyond national borders, the volume tackles global issues such as the rights of Muslim women, immigration, multiculturalism, and global capitalism.