Let’s keep educating ourselves about racial inequality and white supremacy
The dangerous riots at the US Capitol last week highlighted again the need to understand white supremacy and how it manifests in our culture. Here are recommendations from our staff for books, documentaries, and podcasts that challenge our assumptions about race and social structures. And in case you missed it, here are additional resources we offered this summer.
Books
An African American and Latinx History of the United States, by Paul Ortiz
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, by Eddie Glaude
Caste: The Origin of our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson
How to be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial divide, by Crystal M. Fleming
Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America, by Michael Eric Dyson
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work, by Tiffany Jewell
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements, by Charlene Carruthers
Waiting ’til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America, by Peniel Joseph
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, by Carol Anderson
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color, by Ruby Hamad
Documentaries
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise (PBS)
Black Panthers: Vanguards of the Revolution (PBS)
A Love Song for Latasha (Netflix)
Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap (Netflix)
Freedom Riders (PBS)
John Lewis: Good Trouble (Amazon)
Let the Fire Burn (PBS)
Paris is Burning (Netflix)
Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement (Amazon)
Strong Island (Netflix)
John Lewis: Good Trouble (Amazon)
Podcasts
About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge
Afroqueer Podcast
Come Through
Justice in America
Nice White Parents
Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell and Hari Kondabolu
Scene on Radio, season 2, Seeing White
There Goes the Neighborhood
Uncivil
Waiting on Reparations