Summer 2019 Reading List

Summer Reading List Below

• So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo (Common Text 2019-20 academic year)
• Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer Eberhardt, Ph.D. 
• There There by Tommy Orange
• Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli
• Head Off and Split: Poems by Nikky Finney (winner, National Book Award for Poetry)
• Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow
• Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity 3rd ed. Edition by C Riley Snorton
• May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) by Imani Perry
• Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
• No-No Boy by John Okada
• The White Card: A Play by Claudia Rankine
• The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives: Stories by Viet Thanh Nguyen, editor
• Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom Hardcover by Bettina Love
• Citizens but Not Americans: Race and Belonging among Latino Millennials by Nilda Flores-González
• The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby
• Murder on Shades Mountain: The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham by Melanie S. Morrison
• Real American: A Memoir by Julie Lythcott-Haims
• I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter To My Daughter by David Chariandy
• Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
• What if I Say the Wrong Thing?: 25 Habits for Culturally Effective People by Verna A. Myers
• National Book Award Winner, Ibram Kendi, and author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America published a reading list that appeared in the New York Times, May 2019 that offers additional fodder for the study of race: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/books/review/antiracist-reading-list-ibram-x-kendi.html