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A reading list for the long work.

Books and essays we return to again and again — to understand how structural racism was built, and how it can be undone.

Foundational

📖 The New Jim Crow — Michelle Alexander

📖 Stamped from the Beginning — Ibram X. Kendi

📖 The Color of Law — Richard Rothstein

📖 How to Be an Antiracist — Ibram X. Kendi

History & Structure

📖 The Warmth of Other Suns — Isabel Wilkerson

📖 Caste — Isabel Wilkerson

📖 The Half Has Never Been Told — Edward E. Baptist

📖 From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime — Elizabeth Hinton

Health & Systems

📖 Medical Apartheid — Harriet A. Washington

📖 Just Medicine — Dayna Bowen Matthew

📖 Evicted — Matthew Desmond

Organizing & Change

📖 Emergent Strategy — adrienne maree brown

📖 Begin Again — Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

📖 My Grandmother’s Hands — Resmaa Menakem

Reading is a start. Training goes deeper.