shala teachers share their favorite books, documentaries, and talks on issues of race and ethnicity.
watch:
13th — Ava Duvernay
“The War on Drugs Is an Epic Fail” — Jay-Z
“The Urgency of Intersectionality” — Kimberle Crenshaw
read:
Unapologetic — Charlene Carruthers
We Were Eight Years in Power — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Between the World and Me — Ta-Nehisi Coates
An American Marriage — Tayari Jones
The Warmth of Other Suns — Isabel Wilkerson
Homegoing — Yaa Gyasi
Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace — Angel Kyodo Williams
The Fire Next Time — James Baldwin
The Fire This Time — ed. Jesmyn Ward
Salvage the Bones — Jesmyn Ward
Sing, Unburied, Sing — Jesmyn Ward
Men We Reaped — Jesmyn Ward
The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution — Julius Scott
Citizen — Claudia Rankine
Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism — bell hooks
Black Feminist Thought — Patricia Hill Collins
The New Jim Crow — Michelle Alexander
White Fragility — Robin Diangelo
Black Skin, White Masks – Franz Fanon
Pedagogy of the Oppressed — Paulo Freire
Pedagogy of Hope — Paulo Freire
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? — Beverly Tatum
Angela Davis: An Autobiography — Angela Davis
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance — ed. Angela Davis