Resources and Reading on Racial Justice, Racial Equity and Anti-Racism

The Institutional Anti-Racism and Accountability Project (IARA)
Shorenstein Center | Harvard Kennedy School

Download this list of resources and readings as a PDF.

Books

• How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
  • Read ebook @ Harvard Library
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• Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence, Derald Wing Sue
  • Read ebook @ Harvard Library
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• Courageous Conversations About Race, Glenn Singleton
  • View @ Harvard Library
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• White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
  • Read ebook @ Harvard Library
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• The Condemnation of Blackness, Khalil Gibran Muhammad
  • Read ebook @ Harvard Library
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• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race, Beverly Tatum
  • Read ebook @ Harvard Library
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• Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
  • View @ Harvard Library
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  • View young adult adaptation @ Publisher Site
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
  • Read ebook @ Harvard Library
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• The Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism and Racial Violence, eds. Chad Williams, Kidada E. Williams and Keisha N. Blain
  • View @ Harvard Library
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• From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, Keeanga Yamatta-Taylor
  • View @ Harvard Library
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• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein
  • View @ Harvard Library
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• The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States, Walter Johnson
  • View @ Publisher Site
• One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our America, Carol Anderson
  • View @ Harvard Library
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• Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, Erica Armstrong Dunbar
  • View @ Harvard Library
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• The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
  • View @ Harvard Library
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Resource Lists for White People (+ those interested)

• Intro to Racism for White People
• Anti Racism Resources
• White Noise Collective

Articles

• 1619 Project, New York Times Magazine, ed. Nikole Hannah-Jones
• “The Case for Reparations,” Ta-Nehisi Coates
• “Why It’s So Hard to Talk To White People About Race,” Robin DiAngelo
• “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” Peggy McIntosh
• Resource List on Abolition Study, A.
• “The Coronavirus was an Emergency Until…,” Adam Sewer
• “Don’t Understand The Protests? What You’re Seeing is People Pushed To The Edge,” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• “The Minneapolis Uprising in Context,” Elizabeth Hinton

For Parents

• “Because several folks keep asking for a reading list for children,” Vazquez and Jones

Podcasts

• 1619 (New York Times)
• Come Through with Rebecca Carroll
• Seeing White
• Untying Knots

Organizations in Boston

• Mass Action Against Police Brutality
• SURJ Boston – Showing Up for Racial Justice
• The Mel King Institute for Community Building
• Boston Ujima Project
• Haymarket People’s Fund
• Community Change Inc
• Black Lives Matter Boston, Black Lives Matter Cambridge
• YW Boston
• Interaction Institute for Social Change

Black Owned Restaurants in Boston

(credit: Trae Daddious)

Contact IARA:
Email: IARA@hks.harvard.edu
Twitter: @IARA_HKS
ShorensteinCenter.org/IARA