BOOKS
Purchasing Options: We have linked titles to Black-owned bookstores to order from, when possible.
Borrowing Options: Check your local library system for online access.
New York Public Library - E-Book Central - Explore more than 300,000 e-books and audiobooks available to borrow for free at the NYPL.
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own - Eddie S. Glaude Jr. - Buy
Before Color Prejudice - Frank M. Snowden, Jr. - Buy
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America - Lerone Bennett - Buy
Black Political Power in America - Chuck Stone - Find
Black Power and the American Myth - C.T. Vivian - Find
Black Robes, White Justice - Judge Bruce Wright - Buy
Blood in My Eye - George Jackson - Buy
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America - Herb Boyd, Robert L. Allen - Buy
Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents - Isabel Wilkerson - Buy
How to Be Antiracist - Ibram X Kendi - Buy
Me and White Supremacy - Layla Saad - Buy
Miseducation of the Negro - Carter G. Woodson - Buy
Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire - Buy
Racism, Education, and Book List - Lisa Henry - Read
Shades of Freedom - A. Leon Higginbotham - Buy
Stamped From the Beginning - Ibram X Kendi - Buy
Stolen Legacy - George G.M. James - Buy
The 1619 Project - Read
The History of White People - Nell Painter - Buy
The Isis Papers - Dr. Francis Cress Welsing - Buy
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander - Buy
The Political Economy of Racism - Raymond S. Franklin, Solomon Resnick - Buy
The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson - Buy
The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon - Buy
This Book is AntiRacist - TiffanyJewell - Buy
Voices From the Battlefront: Achieving Cultural Equity - edited by Marta Moreno Vega, Cheryll Y. Greene - Buy
We Got This - Cornelius Minor - Buy
What Country Have I? Political Writings by Black Americans - Herbert J. Storing - Read
White Fragility - Robin Di Angelo - Buy
A Case for Reparations - Ta-Nehisi Coates, Read
BRIEF READS:
Dario Calmese takes on racial bias in photography- Dario Calmese- Read
The Man Behind Critical Race Theory 2021- Jelani Cobb- Read
Jill Moniz & Deb Klowden in Conversation 2020- Read
Dismantle NOMA 2020 - Read
Horror is Different Than Terror - Lori Lobenstine - Read
In the Boardroom Where it Happens - Diane Rodriguez - Read
No Neutral Alliance - Read
Teaching Artists and Culture Shift Workers - Holly Bass - Read
The Atlantic Stories - Ta-Nehisi Coates - Read
The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture - Kenneth Jones, Tema Okun - Read
The Four “I’s” of Oppression - Read
The Work After Our Rage - Kenneth Bailey and Lori Lobenstine - Read
We must end ‘qualified immunity’ for police. It might save the next George Floyd - Killer Mike - Read
When Black Women Go From Office Pet To Office Threat - Erika Stallings - Read
You Do Not Ever Have to Share Video of a Cop Lynching... - Michael Harriott - Read
We encourage you to form a reading group with 2-10+ friends, and commit to meet regularly to go through these materials together. Here are examples of articles that illustrate the reading group model.
Have a resource you’d like to recommend? Reach out to us at wearetheblacksmiths@gmail.com with the subject line “Resource Toolkit Suggestions”