Social Justice: More Resources

Books

The list below is taken from the Healing Beyond Borders Virtual Conference 2022 Recommended Reading List.

• Diangelo, R. (2018) White Fragility: Why It’s so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism. Beacon Press
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents By Isabel Wilkerson
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr. Joy Degruy
• My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
• Irving, D. (2014) Waking up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race. Elephant Room Press
• Robin, K. W. (2013) Braiding Sweetgrass Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions
• Gilo-Whitaker, D. (2019) As Long as Grass Grows. Beacon Press
• Yancy, George (2018) Backlash: What happens when we talk honestly about racism in America. Rowman and Littlefield
• Bryant, H. (2020) Full Dissidence: Notes from an uneven playing field. Beacon Press
• Williams, T. C. (2019) Self Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race. W. W. Norton and Company
• Stevenson, Bryan (2014) Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. Spiegel and Grau
• Menakem, R. (2017) My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies. Central Recovery Press
• Wilkerson, I. (2010) The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. Vintage Books
• McGee, H. (2021) The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. Random House
• Kendi, I. X. (2019) How to be an Anti-racist. Random House. Kendi, I. X. (2016) Stamped from the Beginning. Public Affairs
• Oluo, I. (2018) So you want to talk about Race. Seal Press
• Coates, T. (2015) Between the World and Me. Spiegel and Grau
• Gilroy, P. (2002) Against Race. Belknap Press
• Fields, B., and Fields, K. (2014) Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in America. Verso Publications
• Baldwin, J. (1963) The Fire Next Time. Dial Press
• Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
• Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride
• Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom
• Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
• As Long As Grass Grows by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
• Silver Like Dust by Kimi Cunningham Grant
• The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
• Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo
• My Name Is Selma by Selma van de Perre
• Urrieta, Luis. Indigenous Peoples on Identity, Trauma, and Healing: Navigating Belonging and Power. Genealogy 3, 26 2019. https://doi:10.3390/genealogy3020026
• Skloot, Rebecca. (2010) The Immortal Live of Henrietta Lacks. New York: Broadway Books (Random House)
• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
• White Like Me by Tim Wise

Novels

• The Water Dancer- Ta Nehisi Coates
• Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
• Sula - Toni Morrison
• A Mercy - Toni Morrison

Articles

• Dear White America-- George Yancy
• Letter from a Birmingham Jail—Martin Luther King, Jr.
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack—Peggy McIntosh

Movies

• Spirituality and Practice - Spiritual Perspectives on Films for Black History Month
• When They See Us
• When They See Us Now (Oprah interviewing actor, producer, and the exonerated.)
• I am not your Negro
• 13th (amendment)
• Madame CJ Walker
• Toni Morrison special