SoALS: Racial Justice & Advocacy

Download a free copy by signing up with your name and email in the link provided. Author shares her own personal struggles and the common challenges many whites face as they work to create more equitable, inclusive organizations. Find the inspiration and tools to deepen your resolve to live your values every day as a change agent for racial justice.

Urges readers to rethink conventional ways of knowing about racial equality, civil rights, and the Internet.

A concise and accessible primer for introducing undergraduate and graduate students to the field of race and education.

Provides a thought-provoking and thorough analysis of how race is lived in America. Includes essays on personal experiences of race and racism from a wide spectrum of college students.

Reveals the violence, injustice, and painful absurdities that black men and women contend with every day. Includes stories that tackle urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest, and explore the many ways we fight for humanity in an unforgiving world.

Takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas--from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities--that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves. Weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with the author's personal story of awakening to antiracism.

Acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin's published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been. In his final years, Baldwin had envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King.

Examines the subject of racism with a view to uncovering the many ways in which it exists today. Features extended discussion of racism in the workplace, an illuminating and important sequence that reveals the institutionalization of racist hiring procedures despite legislation to curb such practices.

Learn to talk about race openly, honestly, and productively. Shares strategies for smoothing conversations about race in a productive manner.

Demonstrates how ingrained ideas of race created and sustain the achievement gap in U.S. schools. Examines how this gap, and the policies and practices that sustain it, is produced and reproduced by structures of racism and race attitudes operative in education.

The author relays her experiences of growing up young, multiracial, poor, and trans in America, offering readers accessible language while imparting vital insight about the unique challenges and vulnerabilities of a marginalized and misunderstood population.

Provides fresh theoretical insights into the new forms of race and racism along with evidence of and policy solutions to address these seemingly intractable forms of discrimination and racial disparities.

Discusses that silent racism--racism by people who classify themselves as "not racist"--is instrumental in the production of institutional racism.

Uses multiple methods of inquiry, including literary analysis, political theory, focus groups, surveys, and experimental research, to understand more deeply black women's political and emotional responses to pervasive negative race and gender images.

Offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America. Guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to "model minorities" in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.

Investigates how race functions as an enduring logic of governance in the United States, perpetually generating and legitimating racial hierarchy and privilege.

Discusses the ways and strategies in which antiracist scholars do their work, as well as to provide pragmatic ways in which people--White and of color--can build cross-racial, cross-communal, and cross-institutional coalitions to fight White supremacy.

Examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively. Download reading guides at www.beacon.org/whitefragility

Examines the question at large of what it means to be white in the continued effort to examine how white racial identity is constructed and how systems of white privilege operate in everyday life.

Authored by Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism. Presents that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication across racial and ethnic divides.