Abalos, David T.: Latinos in the United States: The Sacred and the Political
Alexander, Michelle: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Anderson, Carol: White Rage: The Unspoken Truth Of Our Racial Divide
Baldwin, James: Giovanni’s Room
Baldwin, James: The Fire Next Time
Baldwin, James: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
Chrenshaw, Kimberle (Ed.): Critical Race Theory
Coates, Ta-Nehisi: Between the World and Me
Collins, Patricia Hill: Black Feminist Thought
DiAngelo, Robin: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism
DuBois, W.E.B.: The Souls of Black Folks
Dyson, Michael Eric: Tears We Cannot Stop
Garrod, Andrew; Kilkenny, Robert; and Gómez, Christina (editors): Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories
Gibson, Carrie: El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
Gómez, Laura E.: Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism
González, Juan: Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
Guy-Sheftall, Beverly: Words of Fire, Anthology of African American Feminist
Hooks, Bell: Ain’t I a Woman/Black Women and Feminism
Hurston, Zora Neal: Barracoon
Hwang, David: Yellow Face
International Human Rights Association of American Minorities: Preserving HBCUs Billion Dollar Legacy: International Law, Self-Determination and the Right to Institutions
Irving, Debbie: Waking Up White
Katznelson, Ira: When Affirmative Action was White
Kendi, Ibram X.: How to be An Antiracist
Kendi, Ibram X.: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Kido Lopez, Lori: Asian American Media Activism: Fighting for Cultural Citizenship
Kim, Christine: The Minor Intimacies of Race: Asian Publics in North America
Lorde, Audre: Zami, Sister Outsider, Undersong
Lung-Amam, Willow: Trespassers?: Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia
Molinary, Rosie: Hijas Americanas: Beauty, Body Image, and Growing up Latina
Morrison, Toni: (any of her books)
Núñnez, Anne-Marie (et al) (editors): Latinos in Higher Education and Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Creating Conditions for Success
Okihiro, Gary Y.: American History Unbound: Asians and Pacific Islanders
Okihiro, Gary Y.: The Columbia Guide to Asian American History
Pak, Yoon K.; Maramba, Dina C.; and Hernandez, Xavier J.: Asian Americans in Higher Education: Charting New Realities
Park Nelson, Kim: Invisible Asians: Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism
Poulin, A.: When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
Rodriguez, Richard: Brown: The Last Discovery of America
Stavans, Ilan (Editor): The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature
Stevenson, Bryan: Just Mercy
Tatum, Beverly: “Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” And Other Conversations About Race
Thangaraj, Stanley I.: Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity
Walker, Alice: (any of her books)
Wilkerson, Isabel: The Warmth of Other Sun
Woodson, Carter G.: The Mis-Education of the Negro
Wytsma, Ken: The Myth of Equality: Uncovering the Roots of Injustice and Privilege
Yu, Charles: Interior Chinatown
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