SJE Book Resources for Learners
THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAGE
The Social Justice Education book resource page for learners lists several books ranging from racism, intersectionality, and race that are meant to develop and strengthen your understanding of social injustice and justice by guiding your self-exploration and self-learning.
CRITICAL THINKING AND SOCIOLOGY
INTERSECTIONALITY
- Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney Cooper
- Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins
- Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
- Feminist Theory: from Margin to Center by bell hooks
POLICING AND POLICE BRUTALITY
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
RACE AND ETHNICITY
- An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Critical Race Theory: An Introduction by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
- Representing Race: Racisms, Ethnicity, and the Media by John Downing and Charles Husband
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
RACIAL EQUALITY AND JUSTICE
- Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
- Overcoming Our Racism: The Journey to Liberation by Derald Wing Sue
- The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues by Angela Y. Davis and Robin Kelley
RACIAL INEQUALITY AND INJUSTICE
- Black Wealth White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality by Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
- The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality by Thomas M. Shapiro
- The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B Du Bois
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
RACISM
- Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism by Patricia Hill Collins
- Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
- Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, Future Reparations by Joe R. Feagin
- The Everyday Language of White Racism by Jane H. Hill
- Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice by David Pilgrim
*Please note that this page will be updated regularly because this is not an exhaustive list of book resources for learners.