CHHSM Anti-Racism Center

Grounding Works

You cannot dismantle what you cannot see. You cannot challenge what you do not understand.

—Layla F. Saad, Me and White Supremacy

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
See also Kendi’s An Antiracist Reading List
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coats
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
This Book is Anti-racist by Tiffany M. Jewell
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America’s Law Enforcement by Matthew Horace
All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God by Kaitlin B. Curtice
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race by Derald Wing Sue

Prophecy Poem (impermanence after Phillis) by the participants in Bright Black Broadcast #3: Phillis Wheatley
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings by Joy Harjo
Whereas by Layli Long Soldier
dear white america by Danez Smith
Rest Feeds Your Revolution by Jaiya John
Say My Name by Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi