Anti-Racism for Activists: a Bibliography

This is the beginning of a bibliography of anti-racist resources, particularly those that focus on dealing with racism and oppression in activist communities. Radical Reference members, please add to it, just keep your citations alphabetical and in the same style. Non Rad Reffies, e-mail me your suggestions.
 

MATERIALS FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR

• Allen, Richard L., The Concept of Self: a Study of Black Identity and Self-Esteem. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001.


• Anderson, James A. (James Albert), The Black Enterprise Guide to Investing. New York: John Wiley, 2000.


• Bailey, Eric J., African American Alternative Medicine Using Alternative Medicine to Prevent and Control Chronic Diseases. Westport, Conn.: Bergin & Garvey, 2002.


• Benjamin, Lois, The Black Elite: Still Facing the Color Line in the Twenty-First Century. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005.


• Braithwaite, Ronald L., Sandra E Taylor, and John N Austin Building Health Coalitions in the Black Community. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2000.


• Brown, Jesse B., 101 Real Money Questions the African American Financial Question and Answer Book. New York: Wiley, 2003.


• Byrd, W. Michael and Linda A. Clayton, An American Health Dilemma: a Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race. New York: Routledge, 2000-2002.


• Cohen, Cathy J., The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.


• Collins, Patricia Hill, Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism. New York: Routledge, 2004.


• Daniel, G. Reginald, More Than Black?: Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.


• Dickerson, Debra J., The End of Blackness: Returning the Souls of Black Folk to Their Rightful Wwners. New York: Pantheon Books, 2004.


• Health Care in the Black Community: Empowerment, Knowledge, Skills, and Collectivism, edited by Sadye Louise Logan and Edith M Freeman. New York: Haworth Press, 2000.


• Health Issues in the Black Community, edited by Ronald L Braithwaite and Sandra E Taylor. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 1992.


• Johnson, Michelle T., Working While Black: the Black Person's Guide to Success in the White Workplace. Chicago, Ill.: Lawrence Hill Books, 2004.


• Korgen, Kathleen Odell, From Black to Biracial: Transforming Racial Identity among Americans. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998.


• A Long Way to Go: Conversations about Race by African American Faculty and Graduate Studentsedited by Darrell Cleveland. New York: P. Lang, 2004.


• Martin, Charles D.,
  The White African American Body: a Cultural and Literary Exploration. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2002
  This is about African America albinos.


• McWhorter, John H., Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority. New York: Gotham Books, 2003.


• Meeks, Kenneth, Driving While Black: Highways, Shopping Malls, Taxicabs, Sidewalks: How to Fight Back If You Are a Victim of Racial Profiling. New York: Broadway, 2000.


• Moore, Robert M., They Always Said I Would Marry a White Girl: Coming to Grips with Race in America. Lanham, Md.: Hamilton Books, 2007.


• Oboler, Suzanne. Ethnic labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)presentation in the United States. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c1995.


• Quaye, Randolph, African Americans' Health Care Practices, Perspectives, and Needs. Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2005.


• Vernellia, R. Randall, Dying While Black. Dayton, OH: Seven Principles Press, 2006.


• What Are You?: Voices of Mixed-Race Young People, edited by Pearl Fuyo Gaskins. New York: Henry Holt, 1999.


• Willie, Sarah Susannah, Acting Black: College, Identity, and the Performance of Race. New York: Routledge, 2003.

ARTICLES

• Harris, Cheryl. Whiteness as Property." Harvard Law Review, Vol. 106, No. 8, p. 1707, 1993. Accessed December 6, 2006.


• Jensen, Robert. Saying Goodbye to My "Fargo" Accent. Dissident Voice: A Radical Newsletter in the Struggle for Peace and Social Justice, December 12, 2006. Accessed January 2, 2007.


• Macintosh, Peggy. "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack," accessed December 6, 2006.
  "This essay is excerpted from Working Paper 189. "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies" (1988), by Peggy McIntosh; available for $4.00 from the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, Wellesley MA 02181. The working paper contains a longer list of privileges. This excerpted essay is reprinted from the Winter 1990 issue of Independent School."


• Perry, Jeffrey. "Hubert Harrison (1883-1927): Race Consciousness and the Struggle for Socialism," Socialism and Democracy, vol. 17, no. 2, Sept. 30, 2003. Accessible via ProQuest, doc.#817824491.
  An article that illustrates the uneasy history of race and the left, and the equally uneasy history of class and race identity.

BOOKS

• African Americans and Whites: Changing Relationships on College Campuses, edited by Robert M Moore, III. Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2006.


• Burton, M Garlinda, Never Say Nigger Again!: an Antiracism Guide for White Liberals. Nashville, TN: James C. Winston Pub. Co., 1995.


• Bush, Melanie E. L. Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday Forms of Whiteness. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.


• Childs, Erica Chito, Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Social Worlds. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2005.


• Critical White Studies: Looking behind the Mirror, edited by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997.


• The Cultural Territories of Race: Black and White Boundaries, edited and with an introduction by Michèle Lamont. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.


• Dalmadge, Heather M., Tripping on the Color Line : Black-White Multiracial Families in a Racially Divided World. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000.


• Davis, Michael. Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City. London; Verso, 2000.


• Dei, George Jerry Sefa. Playing the Race Card: Exposing White Power and Privilege. New York: P. Lang, 2005.


• Disrupting White Supremacy from within: White People on What We Need to Do, edited by Jennifer Harvey, Karin A. Case, and Robin Hawley Gorsline. Cleveland : Pilgrim Press, 2004.


• Eyerman, Ron,
  Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.


• Feagin, Joe R. and Karyn D McKinney, The Many Costs of Racism. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, ©2003.


• Feagin, Joe R. White Men on Race: Power, Privilege, and the Shaping of Cultural Consciousness. Boston : Beacon Press, 2003.


• Gardner, LeRoy, White/Black Race Mixing: an Essay on the Stereotypes and Realities of Interracial Marriage. St. Paul, Minn.: Paragon House 2000.


• Georgakas, Dan and Marvin Surkin. Detroit, I Do Mind Dying. Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press, 1998.


• Hitchcock, Jeff. Lifting the White Veil: an Exploration of White American Culture in a Multiracial Context. Roselle, N.J.: Crandall, Dostie & Douglass Books, 2002.


• hooks, bell. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press, 1992.
  The person who suggested this books says she comes back to this book again and again for her explanations of race in the US.


• hooks, bell. Killing Rage: Ending Racism. New York: Holt, 1995.


• Hunter, Margaret L., Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone. New York: Routledge, 2005.


• Jackson, Ronald L., The Negotiation of Cultural Identity: Perceptions of European Americans and African Americans. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999.


• Jensen, Robert. The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege. San Francisco, CA: City Lights, c2005.


• Katz, Judy H. White Awareness: Handbook for Anti-racism Training. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2003.


• Kivel, Paul. Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1995.


• Lewis, Amanda E. Race in the Schoolyard Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2003.


• Lipsitz, George. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.


• The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness, edited by Birgit Brander Rasmussen. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001.


• McKinney, Karyn D. Being White: Stories of Race and Racism. New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2005.


• Moran, Rachel F., Interracial Intimacy: the Regulation of Race & Romance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.


• Muscio, Inga. Autobiography of a Blue-eyed Devil: My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society. Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2005.


• Robinson, Eugene, Coal to Cream: a Black Man's Journey beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race. New York, NY: Free Press, 1999.


• Romano, Renee Christine, Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.


• Roy, Arundhati. Public Power in the Age of Empire. Seven Stories Press, 2004.


• Sullivan, Shannon. Revealing whiteness: the Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.


• Takaki, Ronald. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1993


• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, edited by by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa. New York: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1983.


• This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation, edited by Gloria E. Anzaldua and Analouise Keating. New York: Routledge, 2002.
  


• White out: the Continuing Significance of Racism, edited by Ashley W. Doane and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva. New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2003.


• White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism, compiled by Paula S. Rothenberg. New York: Worth Publishers, 2002.


• Williams, Linda F. The Constraint of Race: Legacies of White Skin Privilege in America. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004.


• Wilson, Kathy Y., Your Negro Tour Guide: Truths in Black and White. Cincinnati, Ohio: Emmis Books, 2004.


• Wise, Tim. Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White. New York : Routledge, 2005.


• Wise, Tim. White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son. New York: Soft Skull Press, 2005.


• X, Malcolm. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York: Grove Press, 1965 (and other editions).


• Yancey, George A., Who Is White?: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide. Boulder, Colo.: L. Rienner, 2003.


• Young, John K., Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006.

VISUAL MEDIA

• Banks, James, One Drop. San Francisco, Calif.: California Newsreel, 2001.


• Burley, Ed, The Politics of Love in Black & White. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1993.


• Skin-deep: Racism in America. Paula Zahn Now show on CNN. Aired December 12, 2006 - 8:pm, ET. Link to rush transcript accessed January 2, 2007.


• Soe, Valerie, Mixed Blood. San Francisco, CA: CrossCurrent Media : National Asian American Telecommunications Association [distributor], 1992.


• Sue, Derald Wing. Overcoming Personal Racism What Can I Do?. Microtraining Associates, 2004. DVD, VHS.


• Sue, Derald Wing. What Does It Mean to be White? The Invisible Whiteness of Being. Microtraining Associates, 2004. DVD, VHS.