Resources
The list below represents a partial list of resources to help learn what White Supremacy is and how it has affected our culture.
References
This is a website that provides some context regarding what White Supremacy is.
Websites
Non-fiction
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
By: Carol Anderson
The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
By: David W. Blight
Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement
By: Fergus Bordewich
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63
By: Taylor Branch
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65
By: Taylor Branch
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
By: Taylor Branch
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
By: David Brion Davis
White Fragility
By: Robin DiAngelo
Black Reconstruction in America
By: W.E.B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk
By: W.E.B. Du Bois
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States: Revisioning American History
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
By: Reni Eddo-Lodge
The Autobiography of Black Hawk
By: Black Hawk
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
By: Adam Hochschild
Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America
By: Elliot Jaspin
White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
By: Robert P. Jones
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
By: Peniel E. Joseph
When Affirmative Action was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
By: Ira Katznelson
How to be an Antiracist
By: Ibram X. Kendi
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
By: Clayborne Carson - editor, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
By: Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer
Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America
By: John Lewis
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
By: Manning Marable
Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
By: Eric Metaxas
The Gene: An Intimate History
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WW II
By: Chester Nez , Judith Schiess Avila
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
By: Les Payne , Tamara Payne
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
By: Rebecca Skloot
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By: Clint Smith
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
By: Isabel Wilkerson
The Affirmative Action Puzzle: A Living History from Reconstruction to Today
By: Melvin I. Urofsky
The Devil's Highway: A True Story
By: Luis Alberto Urrea
Black Boy
By: Richard Wright
The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
By: Malcolm X
Fiction
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
By: Maya Angelou
Sonny’s Blues
By: James Baldwin
The Heart of Darkness
By: Josef Conrad
Invisible Man: A Novel
By: Ralph Ellison
That Evening Sun
By: William Faulkner
Beloved
By: Toni Morrison
Recitatif
By: Toni Morrison
The Color Purple
By: Toni Morrison
The Street
By: Ann Petry
Blood Burning Moon
By: Jean Toomer
The Worn Path
By: Eudora Welty
Big Black Good Man
By: Richard Wright
The Man Who was Almost a Man
By: Richard Wright