Articles & Books

‘‘The Case for Reparations’’ by Ta-Nehisi Coates

‘‘75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice’’ by Corinne Shutack

‘‘Asian Americans Need to Talk about Anti-Blackness in Our Communities’’ by Rachel Ramirez

‘‘Anti-Racism for Kids 101: Starting to Talk About Race’’ by Ashia Ray

‘‘White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack’’ by Peggy McIntosh

‘‘The 1619 Project (all the articles and poems)’’ by the New York Times Magazine

‘‘30 Books to Help You Talk to Your Kids About Racism’’ by Alex Mlynek

‘‘The Intersectionality Wars’’ by Jane Coaston

‘‘30+ Ways Asians Perpetuate Anti-Black Racism Everyday’’ by Michelle Kim

‘‘20+ Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for the Black Community Right Now’’ by Michelle Kim

‘‘Dismantling Anti-Blackness Together by Lorgia García-Peña’’

‘‘100 Ways You Can Take Action Against Racism Right Now’’ by Sara M Moniuszko and Anika Reed

‘‘Non-Black People of Color Need to Start Having Conversations About the Anti-Blackness in Our Communities’’ by Sharon Park

These and other books are available through Oberlin College Library.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde - access via Oberlin College Library

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander - access via Oberlin College Library

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison - access via Oberlin College Library

Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks - access via Oberlin College Library

Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race by Derald Wing Sue  - access via Oberlin College Library

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi  - access via Oberlin College Library

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo  - access via Oberlin College Library

Promoting Diversity and Social Justice: Educating People from Privileged Groups by Diane Goodman - access via Oberlin College Library

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum - access via Oberlin College Library

Stamped from the Beginning, The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi - access via Oberlin College Library

Why We Can’t Wait by Martin Luther King Jr. - access via Oberlin College Library

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad - access via Oberlin College Library

So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo - access via Oberlin College Library

Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter by Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis Watts Smith - access via Oberlin College Library

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin -access via Oberlin College Library

Institutional Racism: A Primer on Theory and Strategies for Social Change by Shirley Better - access via Oberlin College Library

Walking with the Wind? A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis -access via Oberlin College Library

Faces at the Bottom of the Well by Derrick Bell - access via Oberlin College Library

Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. - access via Oberlin College Library

The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson - access via Oberlin College Library

The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison  - access via Oberlin College Library

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison - access via Oberlin College Library

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry - access via Oberlin College Library

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates - access via Oberlin College Library