Courageous Leaders Resources and Suggested Reading List


1. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, Robin DiAngelo
2. Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, Paul Kivel
3. White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism, Paula S. Rothenberg
4. Overcoming our Racism: The Journey to Liberation, Derald Wind Sue
5. So You Want to Talk About Race, Ljeoma Oluo
6. A Different Mirror: A history of Multicultural American, Ronald Takaki
7. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson
8. This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation, Gloria E. Anzaldua
9. Between the World and Me, Ta‐Nehisi Coates
10. Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race, Frances Kendall
11. Vocabulary of Change: Angela Davis and Tim Wise in Conversation, Angela Davis and Tim Wise
12. US Senator Chuck Schumer ‐ Speech to the Senate to Address the Rise of Antisemitism
13. Judge Jackson's dissent to the Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action
14. Ava DuVernay Documentary 13th (Netflix)
15. Cracking the Codes ‐ The System of Racial Inequity (link to video)
16. Ta‐Nehisi Coates "A Case for Reparations" (attached)
17. “Segregated by Design.” https://www.segregatedbydesign.com/
18. “Housing Segregation and Redlining in America: A Short History." NPR, YouTube, 11 Apr. 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5FBJyqfoLM&t=18s