Support BIPOC / Undo Racism
Resources
Supporting BIPOC involves unlearning, re-education, listening, and informed action. The list below is ever-growing and by no means exhaustive, but we hope it gives you a place to begin.
read:
Books for Understanding & Undoing Racism and White Privilege ~
*Please buy books from black-owned local shops, if possible.
My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi
Stamped From The Beginning by Ibram X Kendi
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Warmth Of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
Killing Rage Ending Racism by Bell Hooks
A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
Raising White Kids by Jennifer Harvey
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The Burning House by Anders Walker
Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan Metzl
Black Centered Fiction ~
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
God Help The Child by Toni Morrison
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Native Son by Richard Wright
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Under The Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
An Unkindness Of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
The Girl With The Louding Voice by Abi Daré
Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James
Salvage The Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Books on Black Feminism ~
How We Get Free by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Editor)
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Ain’t I A Woman by Bell Hooks
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper
In Search of our Mothers Gardens by Alice Walker
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Women Race & Class by Angela Davis
Assata by Assata Shakur
Black LGBTQ+ Books ~
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Zami by Audre Lorde
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene Carruthers
No Tea, No Shade by E. Patrick Johnson (Editor)
Since I Laid My Burden Down by Brontez Purnell
Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin
No Ashes in the Fire by Darnell L. Moore
The Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie
Poetry by Black Authors ~
“The Source Of Self Regard” by Toni Morrison
“Don’t Call Us Dead” by Danez Smith
support:
watch:
Netflix- The Racial Wealth Gap
PBS Series – Black America Since MLK : And I Still Rise
Netflix Documentary – Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992
Netflix Series: When They See Us
sign:
Amnesty Justice For George Floyd
Ban the Use of Inhumane Rubber Bullets
listen:
“Resmaa Menakem: Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence” - On Being
BOLD – Showing up for Racial Justice
Follow:
other action resources:
75 black businesses to support
Playbill - “Black Lives Matter 101”
Anti-Racism Guide for Beginners & White People
Anti-Racism Resources for White People