As we continue in our fight against racism and commitment to educating ourselves and others on the social, racial, and economic issues of our time, we wished to provide some resources that speak on these important topics. Below is a brief list of different media (books, films, articles, etc) that focus on the subject of racial injustice and inequity, as well as some that connect these issues to topics in museum studies and art history.
To Read:
- Bryan Stevenson. Just Mercy. New York: Random House, 2015.
- Howard Zinn. A People’s History of the United States. New York: Harper and Row, 1980.
- Tim Wise. White Like Me. New York: Soft Skull Press, 2004
- The University of Washington. UW Libraries: Racial Justice. Washington D.C. The University of Washington, 2021.
- Michelle Alexander. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: The New Press, 2010.
- Dismantling Racism Works. White Supremacy Culture in Organizations, Centre for Community Organizations. Montreal: Center for Community Organization, 2019.
- Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Asha Bandele. When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. London: St. Martin’s Press, 2018.
- Jeanna Theoharis. A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights. Boston: Beacon Press, 2018.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates. Between the World and Me. New York: Random House, 2015
- Ijeoma Oluo. So You Want to Talk about Race. New York: Hachette Publishing, 2018.
- Angela Y. Davis. Women, Race, and Class. New York: Vintage Books, 1983.
- Mikki Kendall. Hood Feminism. New York: Random House, 2021.
- Assata Shakur. Assata: An Autobiography. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1987.
- Rosalind Hackett. Art and Religion in Africa. London: Continuum, 1996.
- Kellie Jones. EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art, Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
- Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion in Museums. Edited by Johnetta Besch Cole and Laura L. Lott. Arlington: American Alliance of Museums, 2019.
- Robin DiAngelo. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Boston: Beacon Press, 2018.
- Re-Envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon: Perspectives in a Global World. Edited by Ruth E. Iskin. Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2016.
- Race-ing Art History: Critical Readings in Race and Art History. Edited by Kymberly N. Pinder. Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2002.
- Sarah Ahmed. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.
- Samuel D. Museus. “The Culturally Engaging Campus Environments (CECE) Model: A New Theory of Success Among Racially Diverse College Student Populations.” In Higer Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, vol 29, 189-227. New York: Springer, 2014.
- INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence. The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
- Zora Neale Hurston. Their Eyes Were Watching God. Chicago: J. B. Lippincott, 1937.
- Richard Wright. Native Son. New York: Harper Collins, 2005.
To Watch:
- George Tillman Jr., dir. The Hate U Give. 2018; 20th Century Fox. Available on Hulu and Prime Video.
- Ava DuVernay, dir. Selma. 2018; Paramount. Available on Hulu, Prime Video.
- Destin Daniel Cretton, dir. Just Mercy. 2019; Warner Bros. Pictures. Available on HBOMax and Hulu.
- Ava DuVernay, dir. 13th. 2016; Netflix. Available on Netflix.
- Gus Van Sant, dir. Milk. 2008; Axon Films. Available on Prime Video.
- Nate Parker, dir. American Skin. 2021; Eagle Pictures. Available on Prime Video.
- Spike Lee, dir. Do the Right Thing. 1989; 40 Acres and a Mule Films. Available on Hulu.
- Charles Burnett, dir. Killer of Sheep. 1978; Milestone Films. Available on Milestone Films.
- Simon Frederick, writer. They Gotta Have Us. 2018; Netflix. Available on Netflix.
- Cory Bowles, dir. Black Cop. 2017; Blac Op Films. Available on Youtube.
- Reinaldo Marcus Green, dir. Monsters and Men. 2018; Sight Unseen Pictures. Available on Hulu.
- Kief Davidson, dir. Kassim the Dream. 2008; Available on Youtube.
- Kenny Leon, dir. American Son. 2019; Simpson Street. Available on Netflix.
- Ava DuVernay, creator. When They See Us. 2019; Netflix. Available on Netflix.
- Justin Simien, creator. Dear White People. 2017; Code Red Films. Available on Netflix.
- Beyoncé, dir. Homecoming. 2018; Parkwood Entertainment. Available on Netflix.
- Goran Olsson, dir. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975. 2011; Louverture Films. Available on Youtube.
To Listen:
- Meraji, Shereen Marisol; Demby, Gene, hosts. Code Switch. NPR, 2013.
- Biewen, John, producer. Seeing White, Scene On Radio, 2017.