Here are books for you to be a decent person.
Enjoy this list, I’ am not your educator but these people have taken the time to write about their personal experiences/lives/poetry/statics/facts on racism and sexism and intersectionality that is often times ignored. But simultaneously all happening at the same time in the same situation.
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Lies my teacher told me by James W. Loewen
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
Learning to be white by Thandeka
Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Black skin, white masks by Frantz Fanon, Charles Lam Markmann
Black Looks : Race and Representations by Bell Hooks
The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison
The Soul of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois, Donald B. Gibson (Introduction), Monica M. Elbert (Notes), Monica E. Elbert (Annotations)
Ain’t I a woman: Black Women and Feminism by Bell Hooks
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney, Vincent Harding (Introduction)
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
Nobody Knows my name by James Baldwin
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide by Andrea Lee Smith, Winona LaDuke (Foreword)
Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps by Mary Matsuda Gruenewald
Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema & the Colonization of American Indians by Ward Churchill
Collected Articles of Fredrick Douglass by Fredrick Douglas
The Ways of White Folk by Langston Hughes
Brainwashed by Tom Burrell
Conversations with Audre Lorde (Literary Conversations) by Joan Wylie Hall (Editor)
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series) by Audre Lorde
The Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V Harris-Perry
The Black Woman: An Anthology by Toni Cade Bambara (Editor), Eleanor W Traylor (Introduction) The Vintage Book of African American Poetry by Michael S. Harper (Editor), Anthony Walton (Editor)
But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women’s Studies by Gloria T. Hull (Editor), Patricia Bell Scott (Editor), Barbara Smith (Editor)
Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior by Marimba Ani
Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools by Glenn E. Singleton (Editor), Curtis W. (Wallace) Linton (Editor)
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Things fall of Apart by Chinua Achebe
Arrow of god by Chinua Achebe
Native son by Richard Wright
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson
The Philosophy of Alain Locke: Harlem Renaissance and Beyond by Leonard Harris
The Education of Black People: Ten Critiques, 1906 - 1960 by W.E.B. Dubois
Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois (Author), David Levering Lewis
The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson
Black Women in Antiquity (Journal of African Civilizations) by Ivan Van Sertima
Let the Circle Be Unbroken: The Implications of African Spirituality in the Diaspora by Marimba Ani (Author), Richards
Mdw Dtr: Divine Speech: A Historiographical Reflection of African Deep Thought from the Time of the Pharaohs to the Present by Jacob H. Carruthers
The Eloquence of the Scribes by Ayi Kwei Armah
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers
