AHAD Recommended Reading List

Books

  • A Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson
  • Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. 
  • Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Brown: The Last Discovery of America, by Richard Rodriguez
  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent, by Isabel Wilkerson
  • Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, by David W. Blight
  • Healing Racism in America, by Nathan Rutstein
  • How to be an Anti-Racist, by Ibram X. Kendi
  • Indian America, by Jamake Highwater 
  • Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, by Harriet A. Washington
  • My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and bodies, by Resmaa Menakem
  • Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, by Dr. Joy DeGruy 
  • Racial Domination, Racial Progress: The Sociology of Race in America, by Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer
  • Stamped for the Beginning, The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibram X. Kendi
  • Strangers from a Different Shores: A History of Asians in America, by Ronald Takaki
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Alex Haley & Malcolm X
  • The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein
  • The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
  • The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
  • The Origins of Others, by Toni Morrison
  • The Radical King, Edited and introduced by Cornell West
  • The Souls of Black Folks, by W.E.B. DuBois
  • The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson
  • We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • White Fragility: Why it’s So Hard For People to Talk About Racism, by Robin DiAngelo
  • Women, Politics and Culture, by Angela A. Davis
  • Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, by Frank H. Wu

Articles

Film

  • (In) Visible Portraits: Healing Begins When Voices are Heard, A Film by Oge Egbuonu
  • 13th, directed by Ava DuVernay, An in-depth look at the prison system in the U.S. and how it reveals the nation’s history of racial inequality
  • I am Not Your Negro: Documentary Directed by Raoul Peck
  • Selma, directed by Ava DuVernay

Video Podcasts