EDI Reading List

Administration Equity Council Book Reports

• How to be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive by Jennifer Brown 
• Inclusive leadership in complex times: Leading with vulnerability and integrity, by  I.C. Wasserman

Books

• An Antiracist Reading List - Ibram X. Kendi on books to help America transcend its racist heritage.
• An in-depth list of books on E&I's Read, Watch, Listen 
• Racism in America - A Reader. Foreword by Annette Gordon-Reed. Harvard University Press
• Dismantling Racism One Book at a Time. Fordham Press
• Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List for Adults Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• 14 Books for a More Inclusive Look at American History. Book Riot
• 8 Historical Books to Understand Current Social Justice Movements Book Riot
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi 
• Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
• Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 - Edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
• Caste. The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson 
• The Warmth of Other Suns. The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• The Sum of Us - What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
• Racing to Justice. Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society by john a. powell
• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• Just Mercy. The Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Heavy. An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
• Women Race & Class by Angela Davis
• White Fragility. Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo 
• Mediocre. The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Whistling Vivaldi. How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele
• An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 
• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee. Native America From 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
• Lakota America. A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hamalainen
• A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement by Ken Blansett
• How We Go Home. Voices from Indigenous North America Edited by Sara Sinclair
• The Making of Asian America. A History by Erika Lee
• The Dead Are Arising. The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
• The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
• “Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification,” by David Waldstreicher
• “The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America,” by Gerald Horne
• “Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution,” by Jack N. Rakove
• “A Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic,” by George William Van Cleve
• “The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution,” by Michael J. Klarman
• “The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763 to 1789,” by Robert Middlekauff
• “Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia,” by Woody Holton
• “Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789 to 1815,” by Gordon S. Wood
• “Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation,” by Nicholas Guyatt
• “The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution,” by Robert G. Parkinson
• “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution,” by Bernard Bailyn
• “The Radicalism of the American Revolution,” by Gordon S. Wood
• “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World,” by Maya Jasanoff
• “Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787 to 1788,” by Pauline Maier
• “Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America,” by Linda K. Kerber
• “American Taxation, American Slavery,” by Robin L. Einhorn
• “Water From the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age,” by Sylvia R. Frey
• “The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788 to 1828,” by Saul Cornell
• “Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation,” edited by Alfred F. Young, Gary B. Nash and Ray Raphael

Articles and Other Writings

• Reparations are gaining mainstream support, and are a solution
• Why Juneteenth is a celebration of hope
• 5 things people still get wrong about slavery
• Ex-Slaves talk about Slavery in the USA
• Breaking Down The 1619 Project & History of Slavery in America w/ Nikole Hannah-Jones
• How the legacy of slavery affects the mental health of black Americans today
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. How Is It Different From PTSD?
• The US medical system is still haunted by slavery
• Tulsa's Black Wall Street massacre
• Mass Incarceration: Envisioning A Moral Future, Featuring Michelle Alexander
• The Role Publishing Plays in the Commodification of Black Pain
• The Power of Black Lives Matter - How the movement that’s changing America was built and where it goes next
• The Great Fire – Guest Edited by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair
• Asians must be a part of our story, too by john a. powell
• Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype. And It Creates Inequality for All by Viet Thannh Nguyen, Time Magazine
• The Muddled History of Anti-Asian Violence by Hua Hsu; The New Yorker 
• The time James Baldwin told UC Berkeley that Black lives matter  Ivan Natividad, Berkeley News
• Colleges Must Take a New Approach to Systemic Racism. Inside Higher Ed
• Don’t Rely on Black Faculty to Do the Antiracist Work. Inside Higher Ed
• Combating Anti-Blackness in the AI Community by Devin Guillory
• The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The Atlantic
• “Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge,” by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Los Angeles Times
• Allyship (& Accomplice): The What, Why, and How by Michelle Kim | Medium (November 10, 2019)
• We're in a moment of collective trauma. But there are glimmers of hope by john a. powell | Othering & Belonging Institute (June 2, 2020)
• “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
• Letter From Oakland: Black Motherhood in Sleepless Times by Idrissa Simmonds-Nastili. Literary Hub
• The assumptions of white privilege and what we can do about it by Bryan Massingale
• To Dismantle Systemic Racism, White People Must Be Willing to Give Up Their Power by Alicia Sheares 
• 103 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice by Corinne Shutack (August 2017)
• Don’t Talk about Implicit Bias Without Talking about Structural Racism (PDF) (June 13, 2019 ) 
• Colleges Must Take a New Approach to Systemic Racism - Inside Higher Ed
• 5 Powerful Ways to take REAL Action on DEI. Center for Creative Leadership