Recommended Readings

Resources on Racial Equity and Justice

Readings

• Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo
• “Between The World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Race without racism: How higher education researchers minimize racist institutional norms. The Review of Higher Education, 36(1), 9-29. by Harper, S. R. (2012).
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by McIntosh
• Race Without Racism by Harper
• The New Jim Crow and America, This is Your Chance by Michelle Alexander
• How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi 
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
• “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption” by Bryan Stevenson
  
• "Losing the Race: Self Sabotage in Black America" by John McWhorter
  

Film and Television*

• The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix)
• The Innocence Files (Netflix)
• Who Killed Malcolm X? (Netflix)
• 13th (Netflix)
• Just Mercy
  
• When They See Us (Netflix)
• American Son (Netflix)
• The Hate U Give (HULU)
• If Beale Street Could Talk (HULU)

Podcasts*

• 1619 by the New York Times
• About Race
• Codeswitch
• Pod Save the People
• Intersectionality Matters!

* Suggestions curated by Holocaust Museum Houston

Readings on ALF’s Core Value of Appreciation, Exploration and Inclusion of Diversity

• Community Organizing in a Diverse Society by Rivera, Felix G., and John L. Erlich
• A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby Payne
• Transcultural Leadership: Empowering the Diverse Workforce by Simons, G.F.
• Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World by Cose, Ellis
• Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald.

Click here to review a list of recommended readings organized by ALF's 5 core values.

To help you get started, here are several suggestions:

On Dialogue and Collaboration:
Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together by William Isaacs

Other:
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman & Rod Beckstrom