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The Diversity, Equity + Inclusion
anti-racism Reading List

Building on the success of our past four-part series on Race and Equity, WNSPA is encouraging further discussion and work around race, equity and inclusion with an ongoing Williamsburg Northside community generated reading list.

“By not running from the books that pain us, we can allow them to transform us. I ran from antiracist books most of my life. But now I can’t stop running after them — scrutinizing myself and my society, and in the process changing both.” –– Ibram X. Kendi, a professor and director of the Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University.

If you are able, please support our local bookstores who are friends of WNS: Greenlight and McNally Jackson.

With special thanks to Dr. Blanca Ruiz, Sarah Sophie Flicker, and Alyssa Klein for compiling many of the items on this page that we have included here.

books for children

Check out these books for children and young adults from the list of Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners

Check out this thread on Twitter with loads of Children’s books. Thanks to @wanderingbritt_

Resources for parents to raise anti-racist children

Listen to the Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’
Listen to the Fare of the Free Child podcast
Read PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month
Follow The Conscious Kid on Instagram

more suggested books

What are you reading this fall? Please contact the PA to add to this list.

White Fragility, Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Why Are All teh Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria, by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
Whistling Vivaldi by Claude Steele
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibrahim Kendi
Racism Without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen
Waking Up White by Debbie Irving
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson

multi-media resources for parents + families

Videos to watch

Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
"How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)

Podcasts to subscribe to

1619 (New York Times)
About Race
Code Switch (NPR)
Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
The Combahee River Collective Statement

Films + TV series to watch

13th (Ava DuVernay), Netflix
American Son (Kenny Leon), Netflix
Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975, Available to rent
Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu), Available to rent
Dear White People (Justin Simien), Netflix
Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler), Available to rent
I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc), Available to rent or on Kanopy
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins), Hulu
Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton), Available to rent
King In The Wilderness, HBO
See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol), Netflix
Selma (Ava DuVernay), Available to rent
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Available to rent
The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.), Hulu with Cinemax
When They See Us (Ava DuVernay), Netflix
What You Gonna Do When the Word’s on Fire? (2018)
Mudbound (2017)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
The Killer of Sheep (1977)