RESOURCES ON RACE, RACIAL VIOLENCE, AND INJUSTICE IN AMERICA
BOOKS
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​​Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt
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Booklist on understanding and dismantling racism by various authors
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Books on race literacy by Milagros A. Phillips
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How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
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Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
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Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill
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Rosewood: The Full Story by Gary Moore
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So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
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The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, And The Tulsa Race Riot Of 1921 by Tim Madigan
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The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots by Brenda Stevenson
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The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
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Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising And The 1960s by Gerald Horne
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo ​
FILMS AND TV SERIES
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13th (Ava DuVernay) — Available on Netflix
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Eyes on the Prize Series (PBS) — Available for purchase from PBS
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Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent on Amazon and other outlets
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Glory (Edward Zwick) — Available to rent on Amazon and other outlets
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Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent on Amazon and other outlets
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Rosewood (John Singleton) — Available to rent Amazon and other outlets
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Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent Amazon and other outlets
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When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Available on Netflix
PODCASTS
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Code Switch (NPR)
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1619 (New York Times)
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Seeing White (Duke University Center for Documentary Studies)
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The United States of Anxiety (WNYC)