Race and Racism: a starter bibliography

compiled by Rev. Alison Hyder

Unitarian Universalist Meeting House of Provincetown

On racism in the United States:

"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" and other conversations about race – the psychological development of racial identity – Beverly Daniel Tatum

Faces at the Bottom of the Well: the permanence of Racism - Derrick Bell

Race, Class, and Gender: an integrated Study - Paula Rothenberg, ed.

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook got Wrong - James W. Loewen

Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: a brief history of the education of dominated cultures in the United States – Joel Spring

 

…and what you can do:

Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice - Paul Kivel

We Can All Get Along: 50 steps you can take to help end racism at home, at work, in your community – Clyde W Ford

Dismantling Racism: the continuing challenge to White America - Rev. Joseph Barndt

The Future is Ours: A Handbook for Student Activists in the 21^st Century – Joseph W Bartlett

Forty Ways to Raise a Non-Racist Child - Barbara Mathias and Mary Ann French

Everyday Acts Against Racism: Raising Children in a Multicultural World – Maureen T Reddy, ed.

 

Blacks and Whites:

Technical Difficulties – June Jordan

The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor – Patricia J. Williams

Face to Face: Blacks in America: white perceptions and black realities - Rose L.H. Finkenstaedt

Living With Racism: the Black Middle-Class Experience – Joe Feagin and Melvin Sikes

When and Where I Enter: the Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America - Paula Giddings

White Racism - Joe R. Feagin and Hernan Vega

Lift Every Voice – turning a civil rights setback into a new vision of social justice - Lani Guinier

Black Wealth, White Wealth - Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro

 

And anything by:

bell hooks, especially Ain’t I a Woman?, and Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery

or by

Alice Walker Cornel West

Ronald Takaki Mitsuye Yamada

Cesar Chavez Wilma Mankiller

Renita Weems Maxine Hong Kingman

N. Scott Momaday Orlando Patterson

Angela Y. Davis Gloria Wade Gayles

 

By and about White Allies and role models in the struggle, such as:

Angela and Sarah Grimke Clarence Jordan

Virginia Foster Durr Lois Stalvey

Mab Segrest Moris Dees

UU Rev. James Reeb Bill Bradley

Jonothan Kozol Jessie Daniel Ames

To help you into another world: Memoir, Fiction and Poetry by

Paula Gunn Allen

N. Scott Momaday

Louise Erdich

Thomas King

Hyemeyohsts Storm

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Bharati Mukherjee

V. S. Naipaul

Naomi Shahib Nye (poetry)

Rumi (poetry)

Maxine Hong Kingston

David Mura

David Wong Louie

Amy Tan

Dereck Walcott

Chinua Achebe

Maya Angelou

Toni Morrison

Shay Youngblood

Bebe Moore Campbell

Chester Himes

E. Lynn Harris

Eddy L. Harris

Octavia E. Butler (science fiction)

Lucille Clifton (poetry)

Mari Evans (poetry)

Rita Dove (poetry)

E. Ethelbert Miller (poetry)

Audre Lorde (mostly poetry)

Nellie Wong (Poetry)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Jacques Derrida

Jorge Luis Borges

Maria Luis Bombal

Laura Esquivel

Lucha Corpi

Martin Espada (poetry)

Pablo Nerruda (poetry)

…to name a very few!