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Local Authors, Histories | Fiction, Poetry, Prose | Anti-Racist Books | Non-Fiction | Kids Books |
Articles Authors Podcasts | LatinX Resources |
LOCAL AUTHORS, HISTORIES * also movie
- ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF NORMAL By Debra Monroe
https://continuum.utah.edu/departments/love-matters-too/ - FRESHWATER PEARLS By Linda Allen
- THE FIRST TEXAS NEWS BARONS By Patrick Cox
- NEWS OF THE WORLD By Paulette Jiles*
- CULT OF GLORY: THE BOLD AND BRUTAL HISTORY OF THE TEXAS RANGERS
by Doug Swanson.
150 Years in San Marcos [PDF]
Full issue of the 1619 project [PDF]
FICTION/POETRY/PROSE
- COUNTING DESCENT book of poems, Clint Smith
- CITIZEN: AN AMERICAN LYRIC By Claudia Rankin
- I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS By Maya Angelou
- THE WATER DANCER, BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME, A CASE FOR REPARATIONS
By Ta Nehisi Coates - IN SEARCH OF MY MOTHER’S GARDENS, THE COLOR PURPLE By Alice Walker
- THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD By Zora Neale Hurston
- THE NEGRO ARTIST AND THE RACIAL MOUNTAIN By Langston Hughes
- THE BLUEST EYE By Toni Morrison
- THE BLACKER THE BERRY By Wallace Thurman
- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X By Malcolm X and Alex Haley
- ROOTS By Alex Haley * miniseries
- THE INVISIBLE MAN By Ralph Ellison
- THE FIRE NEXT TIME, NOTES OF A NATIVE SON, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK *
By James Baldwin
ANTI-RACIST BOOKS
- HOW TO BE AN ANTI-RACIST, STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING, STAMPED By Ibram X. Kendi
- SISTER OUTSIDER Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
- EYES ON THE PRIZE BY Juan WIlliams and PBS series*
- JUST MERCY: story of justice and redemption By Bryan Stevenson
- WHITE FRAGILITY by Robin DiAngelo
- INVENTING LATINOS: a new story of American racism by Laura Gomez
NON FICTION
- THE TRAIN TO CRYSTAL CITY by Ian Jarboe Russell
- AN IMPERFECT GOD: GEORGE WASHINGTON, HIS SLAVES, & THE CREATION OF AMERICA By Henry Wiencek
- THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS, CASTE by Isabel Wilkerson
- EDUCATION OF A WASP By Lois Stalvey (Fair housing issues)
- MINOR FEELINGS: AN ASIAN AMERICAN RECKONING by Cathy Parks Hong
KIDS BOOKS
- Anything by and about Black, LatinX , Indigenous, Asian, Native American subjects, culture, historic and heroic
- ANTIRACIST BABY By Ibram X. Kendi
ARTICLES, AUTHORS, PODCASTS
- Sundown Towns
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/sundown-towns/ - Does my town have a racist past?
https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/spring-2008/does-my-town-have-a-racist-past - This Black Professor Says It’s Every American’s Job To Fix Systemic Racism
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/this-black-professor-says-its-every-americans-job-to-fix-systemic-racism/ - Uncomfortable conversations with a Black Man (Emmanuel Acho)
Emmanuel Acho – YouTube - Articles, books by Clint Smith
https://www.clintsmithiii.com/ - White privilege litmus test UnpackingTheKnapsack
- Individual Next Step Actions toward Racial Justice
- Opinion | You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
LatinX Specific Resources
- The Tortilla Curtain By T.C. Boyle
- Inventing Latinos: a new story of American racism by Laura Gomez
- Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by María Hinojosa
- Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
- An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
- Latino USA an NPR podcast by María Hinojosa
- Alt.Latino: NPR Music’s Program For Latin Alternative And Rock In Spanish by Felix Rodriguez
- https://www.learningforjustice.org/
Asian American specific resources
- https://www.npr.org/2020/11/24/938314414/cathy-park-hongs-asian-american-reckoning-and-the-model-minority-stereotype
- https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/07/01/polling-methods-are-changing-but-reporting-the-views-of-asian-americans-remains-a-challenge/ft_20-06-29_asianamericans_feature-1/
- https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/sunday-reading-the-asian-american-experience