The data that we use can be found in this list of research resources we have gathered. We offer full transparency with the facts and statistics that we offer. Join us in research, and addressing the systemic racism of our nation. 

    • A People’s History of the United States - Howard Zinn

    • Anti-Racism in US History: The First 200 Years - Herbert Aptheker

    • Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America, 1619-1962 - LeRone Bennett

    • Europe and the People Without History - Eric R. Wolf

    • The White Man’s Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in America - Winthrop D. Jordan

    • Critical Race Theory: An Introduction - Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic

    • Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism - Derek Bell

    • Race Matters in Child Welfare - Dennette Derezotes et al.

    • The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. DuBois

    • Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality - Oliver & Shapiro

    • Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations - Joe R. Feagin

    • Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color - Robert Bullard (Ed.)

    • The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide - Meizhu Lui et al.

area specific resources

    • Race-Based Judgments, Race-Neutral Justifications - Samuel Sommers & Michael Norton

    • Reducing Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System - The Sentencing Project

    • Slavery By Another Name (Book & Documentary) - Douglas Blackmon

    • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander

    • White By Law: The Legal Construction of Race - Ian Haney Lopez

    • Are Teachers’ Expectations Different For Racial Minority Than For European American Students? - Journal of Educational Psychology

    • Beyond Heroes and Holidays - Enid Lee et al.

    • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong - James Loewen

    • Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire

    • White Awareness: Handbook for Anti-racism Training - Judith Katz

    • Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth and Social Policy in America - Dalton Conley

    • Multiple Pathways Linking Racism to Health Outcomes - CJ Harrell et al.

    • Reducing Racial and Social-Class Inequalities in Health - S. Leonard Syme

    • Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? (Documentary) - California Newsreel

    • Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? - Marianne Bertrand & Sendhil Mullainathan

    • Blind Spot: The Hidden Biases of Good People - Mahzarin Banaji & Anthony Greenwald

    • Implicit Bias: Scientific Foundations - A.G. Greenwald & L. H. Krieger

    • Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do - Claude Steele

    • Forty Million Dollar Slaves - William C. Rhoden

    • The Hidden Cost of Being African-American - Thomas Shapiro

    • The Color of Discipline: Sources of Racial and Gender Disproportionality in School Punishment - R. Skiba et al.

    • Black and White Styles in Conflict - Thomas Kochman

    • How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America - Karen Brodkin

    • How the Irish Became White - Noel Ignatiev

    • The Possessive Investment in Whiteness - George Lipsitz

    • Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White - David Roediger

    • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West - Dee Brown

    • The State of Native American Genocide, Colonization & Resistance - M. Annette Jaimes

    • From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii - Haunani-Kay Trask

    • Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty - Dorothy Roberts

    • When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America - Paula Giddings

    • Women, Race, and Class - Angela Davis

    • Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery - bell hooks

    • Becoming an Anti-Racist Church - Joseph Barndt

    • Reluctant Reformers: Racism and Social Reform Movements in the United States - Robert L. Allen

    • Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice - Paul Kivel

    • You Call This A Democracy: Who Benefits, Who Pays and Who Really Decides? - Paul Kivel