Upper School

Books

Non-fiction Books

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, by Emmanuel Acho
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America, by Jennifer Harvey
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin DiAngelo
White Rage, by Carol Anderson
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein
So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria, by Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum
How to Be an Anti-Racist, by Ibram X. Kendi
Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson
Hood Feminism, by Mikki Kendall
Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness, by Michelle Alexander

Young Adult Fiction Books

13th (Ava DuVernay) - documentary on the intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States
Dear White People (Justin Simien) - Netflix series that follows black Ivy-League college students and touches on American race relations
Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) - film based on the events leading up to the death of Oscar Grant, a young black man killed by police in 2009
I Am Not Your Negro - documentary based on a James Baldwin manuscript
If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) - Film based on the James Baldwin book of the same name
Selma (Ava DuVernay) - Film based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution - PBS documentary about the Black Panthers
The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) - Film based on the young adult novel of the same name