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Recommended Books & Videos

Reading List

 

On 6/9/20 the Jesuit Schools Network meeting of Directors of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion shared resources for understanding the work of anti-racism.  These books were personally recommended as excellent resources.

 

America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege and the Bridge to New America by Jim Wallis

 

Black Labor, White Wealth:  The Search for Power and Economic Justice by Claud Anderson

 

Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Hammond

 

How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

 

I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World of Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

 

My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

 

Not Light, But Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom by Matthew R. Kay

 

Racial Justice in the Catholic Church by Bryan N. Massingale

 

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

 

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

 

Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

 

The Color of Law:  A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

 

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

 

Waking Up White in America by Debbie Irving

 

White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo