Systemic Racism, White Privilege, and Police Brutality

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• "systemic racism" Resources that have "systematic racism" content somewhere in them.  Most if not all if that specific content should be about "systematic racism" issues being discussed.
• "institutionalized racism" Resources that have "institutionalized racism" content somewhere in them.  Most if not all if that specific content should be about "institutionalized racism" issues being discussed.
• "institutional racism" Resources that have "institutional racism" content somewhere in them.  Most if not all if that specific content should be about "institutional racism" issues being discussed.

Links below are searches for books on WorldCat.  WorldCat is explained below. Searches are "keyword" (KW) and "title" (TI) searches.  For books at KSU, see KentLINK box above.

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• (KW): systemic racism Resources that have "systematic racism" content somewhere in them.  Most if not all if that specific content should be about "systematic racism" issues being discussed.

• (TI): systemic racism Resources that have "systematic racism" in the title of the resource or maybe in a chapter.  Again, a good chance the content is about "systematic racism".

• (KW): institutionalized racism

• (TI) institutionalized racism

• (KW): institutional racism

• (TI) institutional racism

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This list of book recommendations is from a PBS newshour site that also has ideas for Podcasts and more.

• “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide” by Carol Anderson

• “Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon To White America” by Michael Eric Dyson

• “How To Be Anti-Racist” by Ibram Kendi

• “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism” by Robin DiAngelo

• “Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think, and Do” by Jennifer L. Eberhardt

• “So You Want to Talk About Race” by Ijeoma Oluo

• “The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap” by Mehrsa Baradaran

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

• “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story Of America’s Great Migration” by Isabel Wilkerson

• “Me And White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor” by Layla F. Saad

• “White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America” by Margaret A. Hagerman

• “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin

• “Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility” by Dorceta Taylor

• “Playing In The Dark: Whiteness And The Literary Imagination” By Toni Morrison

• “No, You Shut Up: Speaking Truth to Power and Reclaiming America” by Symone D. Sanders

• “Say It Louder! Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy” by Tiffany Cross

• “Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People” by Ben Crump

• “Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements” by Charlene A. Carruthers

• “To The Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement” by Charlayne Hunter-Gault

• “The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.” by Peniel E. Joseph

• “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy” by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• “Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008” by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

• “Stony The Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, And The Rise Of Jim Crow” by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

• “Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity” by C. Riley Snorton

• “The Mis-Education of the Negro” by Carter G. Woodson

• “Come Hell Or High Water: Hurricane Katrina And The Color Of Disaster” by Michael Eric Dyson

• “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir” by Patrisse Cullors and ashe bandele

• “Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir” by Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.

• “Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement” By John Lewis and Michael D’Orso

• “My Vanishing Country: A Memoir” by Bakari Sellers

• “In My Place” by Charlayne Hunter-Gault

• “How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir” by Saeed Jones

• “Angela Davis: An Autobiography” by Angela Davis

• “Black Indian: A Memoir” by Shonda Buchanan

• “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas

• “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler

• “Homegoing” by Yaa Gyasi

• “Mama’s Girl” by Veronica Chambers

• “With the Fire on High” by Elizabeth Acevedo