Reading List
Some of Hey White Lady’s Essential Reading
Practical
White Supremacy Culture website whitesupremacyculture.info
Not My Idea, a Book About Whiteness, by Anastasia Higginbotham
How We Get Free: The Combahee River Collective by Keeyanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Just Us, an American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
Healing Resistance, a Radically Different Response to Harm by Kazu Haga
Beyond Survival, Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement ed. Dixon, Piepzna-Samarasinha
How To Be An Anti-Racist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
How To Be Less Stupid About Race by Crystal M. Fleming
Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad (February 2020)
Pleasure Activism and Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Olou
The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
White Fragility by Robin D’Angelo
Essays
A Good Time for the Truth ed. by Sun Yung Shin
How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon
Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Covid-19
Why the Virus Is a Civil Rights Issue: ‘The Pain Will Not Be Shared Equally’ – The New York Times
Social Justice in Pandemic Preparedness – National Center for Biotechnology Information
COVID-19 – Racial Equity & Social Justice Resources – Racial Equity Tools
Podcasts
SEEING WHITE
sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/
NICE WHITE PARENTS
thisamericanlife.org/712/nice-white-parents
THE TIGHT ROPE
youtube.com/channel/UCz2_DAnym_HKIlyhPZr2RyA
Historical
Sparked, George Floyd, Racism and the Progressive Illusion edited by Walter Jacobs, Wendy Thompson Taiwo, and Amy August
Nice Racism, How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm by Robin DiAngelo
Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Caste, the Origins of Our Discontents and The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Stamped From The Beginning by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
White Innocence by Gloria Wekker
Theoretical
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, How White People Profit From Identity Politics, by George Lipsitz
Spiritual Bypassing by Robert Masters
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis
Poetry
Blood Ties and Brown Liquor by Sean Hill
Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones
The Tradition, by Jericho Brown
1919 by Eve L. Ewing
American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
Magical Negro by Morgan Parker
Memoir/ish
Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify by Carolyn Holbrook
Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
There Will Be No Miracles Here by Casey Gerald
Waking Up White by Peggy Irving