Michael D. McCarty’s Book Recommendations:

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• Autobiography of Malcolm X

• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

• The Story Factor by Annette Simmons

• Education of a Wandering by Louis L’amour

• The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI by Betty Medsger

• The Assassination of Fred Hampton by Jeffery Haas

• From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party by Jakobi Williams

 

The Collective Books

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• A Guide to the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie

• A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

• An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz

• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

• Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth

• Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein

• Becoming Wise by Krista Tippet 

• Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates

• Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

• Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald

• Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown

• Brazil, Mixture or Massacre by Abdias do Nascimento

• Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

• Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford

• Daring Greatly by Brene Brown

• Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire

• Discover the Power Within You by Eric Butterworth

• Decolonizing Wealth by Edgar Villanueva

• Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land by N. Scott Momaday

• Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper

• Evicted by Matthew Desmond

• Feed by Tommy Pico

• For Our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies 

• From Scratch by Tembi Locke

• Fulton Street Bookshop  

• Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal

• Heavy An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

• How Does It Feel to Be A Problem by Moustafa Bayoumi

• How Not to Get Shot: and Other Advice From White People by D.L. Hughley and Doug Moe

• How To Be An Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi

• IRL by Tommy Pico

• I Know Why A Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

• Junk by Tommy Pico

• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

• Little Big Bully by Heid Erdrich

• Making Multiracials by Kimberly McClain Dacosta

• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankel

• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F.  Saad

• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

• Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens

• Nature Poem by Tommy Pico

• New Jim Crow Incarceration by Michelle Alexander 

• No Ashes in the Fire by Darnell L Moore

• Playing Big by Tara Mohr

• Policing the Black Man by Angela J.  Davis

• Privilege, Power and Difference by Allan G.  Johnson

• Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence by Derald Wing Sue

• Race: Are We So Different by Alan Goodman, Yolanda Moses and Joseph Jones

• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock

• Reproductive Justice by Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger

• Rising Strong by Brene Brown

• Road of Ash and Dust by Eric Cyrs

• Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein

• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

• So You Want To Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo

• Stamped from the Beginning by X. Kendi

• Summary of Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot 

• This Town Sleeps by Dennis E. Staples

• The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean  by Gerald Horn

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

• The Person You Mean to Be by Dolly Chugh

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

• The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward

• The Gift of Change by Marianne Williamson

• The Gifts of Imperfection  by Brene Brown

• The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward Baptist

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas 

• The Little School by Alicia Partnoy

• The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible by Charles Eisenstein

• The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

• The Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B. DuBois

• The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison

• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

• There There by Tommy Orange

• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua

• Trust Your Vibes--Sonia Choquette

• "Wall Street's Think Tank The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics, 1976-2014"  by Laurence H. Shoup  

• We were Eight Years in Power by Ta-nehisi Coates

• When Affirmative Action was White by Ira Katznelson

• When the Light of the World Was Subdued by Joy Harjo

• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bendele

• White Fragility  by Robin DiAngelo 

• White Magic by Elissa Washuta

• White People and Black Lives Matter by Johanna C. Luttrell

• White Rage by Carol Anderson

• Witnessing Whiteness by Shelly Tochluk

Articles

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• The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine

• 97 Things White People Can Do for Racial JusticeEquality Includes You 

• Bryan Stevenson, “On the Frustration Behind the George Floyd Protests”

• Camara Phyllis Jones, “Levels of Racism: A Theoretic Framework and a Gardener’s Tale”

• Cheryl Harris, “Whiteness as Property”

• Devah Pager and Bruce Western, “Identifying Discrimination at Work: The Use of Field Experiments”

• Elijah Anderson, “The White Space”

• Ibram X. Kendi, “A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters”

• John Halstead, "The Real Reason White People Say ‘All Lives Matter"

• Kaitlin Smith, “Bearing Witness: The Death of George Floyd”

• Keith Caver and Ancella Livers, "Dear White Boss"

• National Equity Project, “Lens of Systemic Oppression” and “Implicit Bias and Structural Racialization”

• New York Times Article White Debt https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/magazine/white-debt.html

• Peggy McIntosh, ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”

• Robin DiAngelo, “Nothing to Add: The Role of White Silence in Racial Discussions” and “White Fragility”

• Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations” 

• The Combahee River Collective Statement

• William L. Patterson, We Charge Genocide