Antiracism Books and Articles

This list has been compiled in part from public resources offered by NAMI, Dr. Luke Wood, Rachel Cargyle, Harvard Westlake High School, Common Sense Media and others.

ARTICLES:

• Achieving Health Equity:  Why Health Equity Matters and What You Can Do to Help Give Everyone a Fair Shot at Being as Healthy as They Can Be Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Talking about Race in Trauma Psychotherapy  Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
• Addressing Client’s Prejudices in Psychotherapy     Counseling Today
• American Psychiatric Association: Stress and Trauma Toolkit: Treating African Americans in a Changing Political and Social Environment
• Racial Battle Fatigue: What Is It and What are the Symptoms? Morgan Taylor Goodwin
• Smithsonian Magazine: 158 Resources for Understanding Systemic Racism in America

BOOKS:

• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Black Minds Matter: Realizing the Brilliance, Dignity, and Morality of Black Males in Education by Dr. J. Luke Wood 
• No BS (Bad Stats): Black People Need People Who Believe in Black People Enough Not to Believe Every Bad Thing They Hear about Black People by Ivory A. Toldson 
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
• Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali N. Gross  
• Killing the Black Body by Dorothy E. Roberts 
• The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter 
• The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni by Nikki Giovanni
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison  
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston  

• They Can't Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery  
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

PARENTING RESOURCES / LEARNING FOR ALL AGES:

• National Museum of African American History & Culture: Talking About Race
• Books for Kids about Racism and Social Justice
• How to Talk with Kids About Racism and Racial Violence
• How White Parents Can Use Media to Raise Anti-Racist Kids
• Watch Out! Classic Movies with Racial Stereotypes
• Additional Resources about Race and Racism for Kids and Parents from Common Sense Media

WEBSITES

• Connecting with Black and Brown Therapists
•  Equity in Mental Health Services -  The JED Foundation in collaboration with The Steve Fund have come up with resources addressing Equity in Mental Health services. These guides have been developed for universities and also have lots of great information we all can benefit from.  Check out their downloadable Mental Health Equity Framework and Toolkit here https://equityinmentalhealth.org/