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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by
Beverly Daniel Tatum
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
Women, Race, & Class by Angela Davis
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
by Safiya Umoja Noble
How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
An African American and Latinx History of the United States by
Paul Ortiz
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks
Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richarda Rothstein
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy by Darryl Pinckney
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
by Grace Lee Boggs
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Haney López
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
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Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington
Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by John Hoberman
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens
Black Man in a White Coat by Damon Tweedy
Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
Dána-Ain Davis
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson
Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge by Linda Nash
Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice (Urban and Industrial Environments) by Julie Sze
Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes by Gregg Mitman
Black Liberation Reads
Racism & Health
Clearing the Plains by James W. Daschuk
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King
Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir by Deborah Miranda
Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
How We Became Human by Joy Harjo
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in A Northern City by Tanya Talaga
Heart Berries by Terese Mailhot
American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World by David Stannard
Children of the Broken Treaty by Angus, Charlie
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Keetsahnak: Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters
The Reconciliation Manifesto by Arthur Manuel
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez
Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World by Linda Hogan
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Anti-colonization & Indigenous Reads
A Terrible Thing To Waste: Environmental Racism And Its Assault On The American Mind by Harriet A. Washington
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger by Julie Sze
Climate Change From the Streets by Michael Méndez
Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial edited by Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra and Sarah Jaquette Ray
Full Spectrum Resistance by Aric McBay
Indigenous Environmental Justice edited by Karen Jarratt-Snider and Marianne O. Nielsen
Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation by Candy J. Cooper with Marc Aronson
Unearthing Justice: How to Protect Your Community From the Mining Industry by Joan Kuyek
Whose Water Is It, Anyway? Taking Water Protection Into Public Hands by Maude Barlow
Standing With Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement edited by Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon
One Earth: People of Color Protecting Our Planet by Anuradha Rao
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet by Nina Lakhani
Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility by Dorceta Taylor
Dumping In Dixie: Race, Class, And Environmental Quality, Third Edition by Robert D. Bullard
Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest by Laura Pulido
Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980 by Andrew Hurley
If You Poison Us: Uranium and Native Americans by Peter H. Eichstaedt
Packing Them In: An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Chicago, 1865-1954 by Sylvia Hood Washington
Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement by Robert Gottlieb
Environmental Racism & Justice
Wellness and Healing for BIPOC
The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health: Navigate an Unequal System, Learn Tools for Emotional Wellness, and Get the Help you Deserve by Rheeda Walker, Ph.D.
Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience by Sheila Wise Rowe
Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing by Suzanne Methot
The State of Black Girls: A Go-To Guide for Creating Safe Space for Black Girls by Marline Francois-Madden, L.C.S.W.
Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing by Renee Linklater
Black Women’s Mental Health: Balancing Strength and Vulnerability edited by Stephanie Y. Evans, Ph.D.
Soothe Your Nerves: The Black Woman’s Guide to Understanding and Overcoming Anxiety, Panic, and Fear by Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D.
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem, M.S.W.
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy DeGruy, Ph.D.