Racism Book List

Bruchac, Jospeh "Lasting Echoes, An Oral History of Native American People." New York: Avon Books 1999

Gossett, Thomas. "Race: The History of an Idea in America," New York: Oxford University Press,1997

King, Where do we go from Here Chaos or Community

Kivel, Paul. "Uprooting Racism, How White people can work to Racial Justice

Kochman, Thomas. "Black and White, Styles in Conflict" Chicago
I found this very useful in understanding misunderstanding in our personal communications because of different cultural patterns.

Mazel, Ella. "And don't call me a racist" Argonaut Press, Lexington, Mass. 1988
I great anthology of quotes about race and racism. You can read a page of this book and have hours of discussion.

McIntosh, Peggy: "White Privilege, Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" in the Anthology edited by Margaret Anderson and Patricia Collins (Race, Class and Gender) Wedswork Pub. Co. 1992

National Lawyers Guild, Stolen Lives

Robinson, Randall. "The Debt (what America Owes to Blacks", Plume And the Reckoning (What Blacks Owe each other))
Both carefully argued examinations of Race in the US and it's effects on all of us. Bringing together the arguments for reparations made since the 1850"s. Great understanding of internalized oppression. Widely read in inner-city high schools.

Sue, Derald Wing. "Overcoming Our Racism: The Journey to Liberation." San Francisco: John Wiley and Sons, 2003

Tatum, Beverly "Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" Basic
Looks at why we end up separated from each other.

Oliver, Melvin and Shapiro, Thomas. "Black. Wealth/White Wealth", Routledge
All the tables and statistics you need to understand race in the US.

United for a Fair Economy, "The Color of Wealth, the story behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide" 2006 United for a Fair Economy,
Looks at four groups in the US, African Heritage, Asian, Latino and Native and how racism affect each community. Answers the question of why focus on racism if we want a fair economy and not just on poverty. Has all the most recent statistics to examine how racism affect our country today.

Winant, Howard, "The World is a Ghetto, Race and Democracy since World War II," Basic Books, 2001
Dense, fact filled look at how racism has shifted over the years and it's current world model and implications.

Wright, Marguerite, "I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla, Raising healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World", Jossey-Bass, 1998
A great work by a black psychologist looking at how racism in learned and how it can be combated early by teachers and parents.

Weatherford, Jack. " Indian Givers, (How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the world)" Fawcett
A short history that should be available to all young people about what Native cultures have passed on to our society and how we eliminated the.

West, Cornel, "Race Matters" Vintage, 2001

Berry, Wendle,. "The Hidden Wound" Canada, Harper Collins Pub. 2000

Also read classics: Malcolm X Autobiography, Native Son. Black Like Me etc. Also Useful at United to end Racism materials available from Rational Island Publishers, Seattle, Washington