Simmons Community Read: How To Be An Antiracist: Anti-Racism & Related Readings

Exploring Anti-Racism

Films & Media

Related Readings

Other Memoirs

• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X
• The Fire Next Time
• Between the World and Me
• Heavy: An American Memoir
• Eloquent Rage
• The Fire This Time
• Redefining Realness

Critical Race Theory

• Introduction to Critical Race Theory (free course)
• Souls of Black Folk
• Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement [Bookshop.org]
• Critical Race Theory: An Introduction
• The Derrick Bell Reader
• Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
• "The Case for Reparations," The Atlantic
• “Critical Race Theory 20 Years Later: Where Do We Go From Here?,” Urban Education

Intersectionality

• What Is: Intersectionality (video)
• "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color," Stanford Law Review
• On Intersectionality: Essential Writings [Bookshop.org]
• Intersectionality (Key Concepts Series)
• The Urgency of Intersectionality (video)
• Intersectionality and Higher Education: Identity and Inequality on College Campuses
• Sister Outsider
• All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave
• Laverne Cox Talks About Intersectionality at Harvard (video)
• Women, Race, and Class
• Killing Rage: Ending Racism
• This Bridge Called My Back
• A Black Women's History of the United States

Black Feminism

• "Black feminism and Intersectionality," International Socialist Review
• "Combahee River Collective Statement"
• Black Feminist Thought
• Ain’t I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism
• Black Feminism and the Movement for Black Lives (video)
• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot
• Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
• Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality