Gather as if @ Grand Resource List

What follows is a resource list for various ways to learn more, educate yourself, spark conversation all on the theme of Racism—a topic more timely now than ever.

Books

Books Recommended by Brené Brown

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• Race, Class, & Gender: An Anthology by Margaret Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins
• The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin
• The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou
• And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin
• Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
• Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin
• Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin, Martellus Bennett
• Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in in United States History and Life by David Billings
• *I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
• *Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
• *Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Dr. Joy Degruy
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson *Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge Conversations with Maya Angelou by Jeffrey Elliott
• Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America by Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paul Freire and Myra Bergman Ramos (Translator), Donaldo Macedo (Introduction)
• Empowering Women of Color by Lorraine M. Gutiérrez and Edith A. Lewis
• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Harvest in Translation) by bell hooks
• All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
• A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law by Sherrilyn Ifill and Loretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson, Anthony C. Thompson
• Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth T. Jackson Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America by Charisse Jones and Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Ph.D.
• See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur
• *How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• AntiRacist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
• *Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
• *Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
• We Need To Talk About Race: Understanding the Black Experience in White Majority Churches by Ben Lindsay
• Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Audre Lorde and Reni Eddo-Lodge, Sara Ahmed
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series) by Audre Lorde
• Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House by Audre Lorde
• How To Raise An Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims
• American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass by Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton
• On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope by DeRay Mckesson
• The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation by Miles McPherson
• *My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
• To Live Woke: Thoughts to Carry in Our Struggle to Save the Soul of America by Rupert W. Nacoste PhD
• *Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
• *So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker

From On Being with Krista Tippett

• There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America by Vincent Harding
• Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero by Vincent Harding
• The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
• “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination by Annette Gordon-Reed

Films

From Katie Couric

• The Hate UGive, a film based on the YA novel offering an intimate portrait of race in America
• Just Mercy, a film based on civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson’s work on death row in Alabama
• The 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley
• My hour on the history of Confederate statues in Nat Geo’s America Inside Out
• Becoming,a Netflix documentary following Michelle Obama on her book tour
• Let It Fall, a documentary looking at racial tensions in Los Angeles and the riots over Rodney King’s death
• When They See Us, a Netflix miniseries from Ava DuVernay about the Central Park Five
• 13th, a Netflix documentary exposing racial inequality within the criminal justice system
• I Am Not Your Negro, a documentary envisioning the book James Baldwin was never able to finish
• Selma, a film that chronicles the marches of the Civil Rights Movement

Articles

From Katie Couric

• “The Death of George Floyd, In Context,” by Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker
• “Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People,” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for the New York Times
• “This Is How Loved Ones Want Us To Remember George Floyd,” by Alisha Ebrahimji for CNN.
• The New York Times Magazine’saward-winning The 1619 Project is as important as ever. Take some time to read (or re-read) the entire thing, particularly this essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones
• “You shouldn’t need a Harvard degree to survive birdwatching while black,” by Samuel Getachew, a 17-year-old and the 2019 Oakland youth poet laureate, for the Washington Post
• “It’s exhausting. How many hashtags will it take for all of America to see Black people as more than their skin color?” by Rita Omokha for Elle
• “The Case for Reparations,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates for The Atlantic
• “How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change,” by Barack Obama in Medium
• “Black Male Writers For Our Time,” by Ayana Mathisin New York Times, T

Podcasts

• Brené Brown with Austin Channing Brown on I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness Unlocking Us with Brené Brown
• Brené Brown with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist Unlocking Us with Brené Brown
• On Being with Krista Tibbett with Isabel Wilkerson, This History is Long; This History Is Deep
• On Being with Krista Tibbett with Eula Biss, Talking About Whiteness
• On Being with Krista Tippett with Resmaa Menakem, ‘Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence’
• On Being with Krista Tippett with Robin DiAngelo and Resmaa Menakem, In Conversation
• On Being with Krista Tippett: Annette Gordon-Reed and Titus Kaphar, Are We Actually Citizens Here?
• Ted Talks Daily: Ibram X. Kendi: The difference between being “not racist” and antiracist

From Katie Couric

• My podcast episode with Jamie Foxx, Michael B. Jordan, and Bryan Stevenson about Just Mercy
• Still Processing, a New York Timesculture podcast with Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morrison
• Seeing White, a Scene on the Radio podcast
• Code Switch, an NPR podcast tackling race from all angles
• Jemele Hill is Unbothered, a podcast with award-winning journalist Jemele Hill
• Hear To Slay, “the black feminist podcast of your dreams,” with Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom

Scholars and People to Follow

• Tia Noelle Pratt, PhD https://tiapratt.com/blackcatholicssyllabus-2/

From Katie Couric

• Rachel Cargle,a writer and lecturer who explores the intersection between race and womanhood
• Ibram X. Kendi, the author of How To Be An Antiracistand Director of the Antiracism Center
• Nikkolas Smith, the artist behind portraits of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and others
• Charlene Carruthers, founder of the Black Youth Project 100
• Brittany Packnett Cunningham, co-founder of Campaign Zero, a policy platform to end police violence, and a host of Pod Save The People
• Ally Henny, a Christian commentator on race

Resources for Kids and Teens

Watch

• The Hate UGive, a film based on the YA novel offering an intimate portrait of race in America
• Becoming,a Netflix documentary following Michelle Obama on her book tour
• Dear White People, a Netflix series about being black at a predominantly white college
• Hidden Figures, a film about the brilliant African American women of NASA
• Remember the Titans, story of a newly-integrated football team
• These 26New York Times mini-films for students

Read

• Genesis Begins Againby Alicia D. Williams
• Dear Martinby Nic Stone
• Stella by Starlightby Sharon M. Draper
• Anything by Angie Thomas.
• The Colors Of Usby Karen Katz
• Skin Againby bell hooks
• Let’s Talk About Raceby Julius Lester
• All American Boysby Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely