Anti-Racism Organizing & Training

Bibliography

 

Racism and Anti-Racism: Analysis and Organizing

Alinsky, Saul.  Reveille for Radicals.  New York: Vintage Books, 1989.

Alinsky, Saul.  Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals.  New York: Vintage Books, 1989.

Allen, Robert.  Reluctant Reformers: Racism and Social Reform Movements in the United States.  Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1983.

America's Original Sin: A Study Guide on White Racism.  Washington, DC: Sojourners Resource Center, 1992 Revised Edition

Barndt, Joseph.  Dismantling Racism: The Continuing Challenge to White America.  Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1991.

Bobo, Kimberley A., et al.  Organizing for Social Change: A Manual for Activists in the 1990s.  Washington: Seven Locks Press, 1991.

Bell, Derrick.  Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism.  New York: Basic Books, 1992.

Bell, Derrick.  Race, Racism, and American Law.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.

Carr, Leslie G.  "Color-blind" Racism.  Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1997.

Chisom, Ronald and Michael Washington.  Undoing Racism: A Philosophy of International Social Change.  The People's Institute Press, 1997.

Derman-Sparks, Louise. Anti-bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children

Derman-Sparks, Louise and Carol Brunson Phillips.  Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism.  New York: Teachers College Press, 1997.

Eberhardt, Jennifer and Susan T. Fiske, ed.  Confronting Racism: The Problem and the Response.  Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1998.

Feagin, Joe R. and Hern, Vera.  White Racism: the Basics.  New York: Routledge, 1995.

Fredrickson, George.  The Arrogance of Race.  Wesleyan University Press, 1988.

Gordon, Paul.  White Law: Racism in the Police, Courts, and Prisons.  London: Pluto Press, 1983.

Hacker, Andrew.  Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal.  New York: Scribner's, 1992.

Horsman, Reginald.  Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Jordan, Winthrop D.  The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States.  New York, Oxford University Press, 1974.

Katz, Judith H.  White Awareness: Handbook for Anti-Racism Training.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978.

Kivel, Paul.  Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice

Knowles, Louis L. and Kenneth Prewitt. Institutional Racism in America.  Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969.

Kovel, Joel.  White Racism: A Psychohistory.  New York: Pantheon, 1970.

Kretzmann, John P.  Building Communities From the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets.  Chicago: ACTA Publications, 1993.

Matthias, Dody S.  Working for Life: Dismantling Racism.  Philadelphia: Huperetai, 1986.

Omi, Michael and Howard Winant.  Racial Formation in the United States from the 1960s to the 1980s.  New York: Routledge. 1986

Rothenberg, Paula.  Racism and Sexism: An Integrated Study.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.

Schwartz, Barry N. and Robert Disch, ed.  White Racism: Its History, Pathology, and Practice

Shearer, Jody M.  Enter the River: Healing Steps from White Privilege Toward Racial Reconciliation

Smedley, Audrey. Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview.  Boulder: Westview Press, 1999.

Tatum, Beverly.  Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: and other conversations about race.  New York: Basic Books, 1997.

Terry, Robert.  For Whites Only.  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988.

Wellman, David T.  Portraits of White Racism.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977.

West, Cornel.  Race Matters.  Beacon Press, 1993.

Wilson, Carter.  Racism: From Slavery to Advanced Capitalism

Wright, W.D.  Racism Matters.  Westport: Praeger, 1998.

Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present.  New York: Harper, 1980.

 

 

People of Color History: Reality and Resistance

Branch, Taylor.  Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

"Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954-1965."  (Video series)

Loewen, James. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong.  New York: Touchstone, 1996. 

Takaki, Ronald.  A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.

 

African & African American

Franklin, John Hope.  From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

Harding, Vincent.  There is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America.  New York: Vintage, 1983.

Washington, James M.  A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.  New York: Harper Collins, 1986.

X, Malcolm.  The Autobiography of Malcolm X.  New York: Grove Press, 1965.

 

Latino/a

Acuna, Rodolfo.  Occupied America: A History of Chicanos.  New York: Harper, 1988.

 

Native American (American Indian and Alaska Native)

Brown, Dee.  Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West.  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.

Deloria, Vine.  Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto.  University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.

Jaimes, M. Annette, ed. The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization and Resistance.  Boston: South End Press, 1992.

Smith, Paul Chaat and Robert Allen Warrior.  Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee.  New York: The New Press, 1996.

 

Asian American and Pacific Islander

Takaki, Ronald.  Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1998.

 

 

Whiteness Studies

Allen, Theodore W.  The Invention of the White Race: Racial Oppression and Social Control. Volume 1.  London: Verso, 1994.

Allen, Theodore W.  The Invention of the White Race: The Origins of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America. Volume 2.  London: Verso, 1994.

Berger, Maurice.  White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness.  New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1999.

Bowser, Benjamin P. and Raymont G. Hunt, eds. Impacts of Racism on White Americans.  Newbury Park, California: Sage Publications, 1996.

Clark, Christine and James O'Donnell, eds.  Becoming and Unbecoming White: Owning and Disowning a Racial Identity.  Westport: Bergin and Garvey, 1999.

Delgado, Richard and Jean Stefancic.  Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror.  Temple, 1997.

Frankenberg, Ruth. White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness.  University of Minnesota Press, 1993.

Ignatiev, Noel.  How the Irish Became White.   New York: Routledge, 1997.

Haney-Lopez, Ian F.  White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race.  New York University Press, 1996.

Higgenbotham, A. Leon, Jr.  In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process: The Colonial Period.  Oxford University Press, 1978

Hill, Mike.  Whiteness: A Critical Reader.  New York University Press, 1997

Segrest, Mab.  Memoir of a Race Traitor.  Boston: South End Press, 1994.

Lipsitz, George.  The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics.  Temple, 1998.

Roediger, David.  The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class.  London: Verso, 1991.

 

 

Biblical and Theological Titles

Beals, Ivan A.  Our Racist Legacy: Will the Church Resolve the Conflict.  Notre Dame: Cross Cultural Publications, 1997.

Cone, James.  Black Theology and Black Power.  New York: Seabury, 1969.

Matsuoka, Fumitaka.  The Color of Faith.  Cleveland: United Church Press, 1998.

McKenzie, Steven L.  All God's Children: A Biblical Critique of Racism.  Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox, 1997.

Stroupe, Nibs and Inez Fleming.  While We Run This Race: Confronting the Power of Racism in a Southern Church.  Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1995.

Tinker, George E.  Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.

Wink, Walter.  Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992.