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Books on Racism

• So You Want To Talk About Race
• From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
• Stamped From the Beginning
• Systemic Racism in the United States
• The New Jim Crow
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race
• Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, & Big Business Re-create Race in the 21st Century
• Caste : The Origins of Our Discontents
• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States For Young People
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
• Cedric J. Robinson : On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance

Other books on Racism available at Simmons

Books on Racism in Education

• Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
• On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
• From Black Power to Black Studies : How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline
• Teaching about Race and Racism in the College Classroom
• The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America
• Black Appetite. White Food: Issues of Race, Voice, and Justice Within and Beyond the Classroom

Articles & Other Resources

• "What Is Racism? Racism Defined," DismantlingRacism.org
• "What Is Systemic Racism?," Race Forward
• "White Supremacy Culture," dRWorks
• "4 'Reverse Racism' Myths That Need to Stop," Huffington Post
• "The Subtle Linguistics of Polite White Supremacy," Medium
• "Police Brutality and Racism in America," EXPLORE Journal
• "The Cost of Balancing Academia and Racism," The Atlantic
• "Bias Isn't Just a Police Problem, It's a Preschool Problem," NPR
• "How the Systemic Segregation of Schools is Maintained By 'Individual Choices'," NPR
• "Structural Racism and Health Inequities: Old Issues, New Directions," Du Bois Review
• "Taking a Closer Look at COVID-19, Health Inequities, and Racism," JAMA Network (video in article)
• "Racism, Not Race, Drives Inequity Across the COVID-19 Continuum," JAMA Network
• "Racial Health Equity Data," Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, and Health