Resources for Racial Justice Work
(Always Under Construction! :D)
At Unirondack we believe in educating ourselves and then moving from education to action in the pursuit of racial justice. As a predominantly white organization, however, we understand that our place is not to lead, but to follow and listen to BIPOC leadership and take action within our own circles at the direction of those leaders and voices. One of many ways we have an opportunity to do this is to use our platform as an organization with a website that generates traffic is to offer to you the following voices and resources that you can draw from for your own education and action.
Note: When offering links to other websites we have tried to find sources that will support the original creators of the content rather than a third party seller, especially larger corporations such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple, or Spotify. If you have resources we can add or if you have improvements on our research, let us know! If you’re looking for ways to support Black-owned book sellers you can find more resources HERE.
Websites
| Title | Founder/Author | Description |
| pb-resources.com | @lelegenevieve Venmo/Cashapp: alexisdenisew | An absolutely incredible central database of articles, bail funds, protest tips, phone banking information, petitions, and other incredible information that is specifically aimed at those who are new to racial justice work! |
| Black Lives Matter | Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi | The official website for the network known as Black Lives Matter. Links to local chapters, ways to support the movement, and direct action initiatives. |
| Brown Girls Climb | Bethany ‘Bety’ Lebewitz | A site for the coordination of getting girls and women of color outside and into climbing. They lead national and local events and coordinate scholarships for folks to enter the climbing world in addition to posting and creating articles and content to their social media pages. |
Books
| Title | Author | Link to purchase |
| All Work | Mariame Kabul | |
| America’s Original Sin | Jim Wallis | America’s Original Sin |
| An African American and Latinx History of the United States | Paul Ortiz | An African American and Latinx History of the United States |
| Are Prisons Obsolete | Angela Davis | Are Prisons Obsolete |
| Baracoon | Zora Neale Hurston | Baracoon |
| Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Between the World and Me |
| Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity | C. Riley Snorton | Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity |
| Blindspot | Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald | Blindspot |
| Carceral Capitalism | Jackie Wang | Carceral Capitalism |
| Eloquent Rage | Brittney Cooper | Eloquent Rage |
| Fatal Invention | Dorothy Roberts | Fatal Intervention |
| Freedom is a Constant Struggle | Angela Davis | Freedom is a Constant Struggle |
| Good Talk | Mira Jacob | Good Talk |
| Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? | Mumia Abu-Jamal | Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? |
| Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi | Homegoing |
| How Does it Feel to be a Problem | Moustafa Bayoumi | How Does it Feel to be a Problem? |
| How to Be an Anti-Racist | Ibram X. Kendi | How to Be an Anti-Racist |
| I’m Still Here | Austin Channing Brown | I’m Still Here |
| If Beale Street Could Talk | James Baldwin | If Beale Street Could Talk |
| Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color | Andrea J. Ritchie | Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color |
| Just Mercy | Brian Stevenson | Just Mercy |
| Killing Rage | bell hooks | Killing Rage |
| Killing The Black Body | Dorothy Roberts | |
| Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor | Layla F. Saad | |
| Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present | Harriet A. Washington | |
| Mindful of Race | Ruth King | |
| Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness | Anastasia Higginbotham | |
| Red at The Bone | Jacqueline Woodson | |
| Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America | Ibram X. Kendi | |
| Surpassing Certainty | Janet Mock | |
| Teaching to Transgress | bell hooks | Teaching to Transgress |
| Tears We Cannot Stop | Michael Eric Dyson | |
| The Color of Law | Richard Rothstein | |
| The End of Policing | Alex Vitale | The End of Policing |
| The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin | |
| The Fire This Time | Jesmyn Ward | |
| The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas | |
| The History of White People | Nell Irvin Painter | The History of White People |
| The New Jim Crow | Michelle Alexander | The New Jim Crow |
| The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Greatest Migration | Isabel Wilkerson | The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Greatest Migration |
| They Were Her Property: White Woman as Slave Owners in the American South | Stephanie Jones-Rogers | They Were Her Property: White Woman as Slave Owners in the American South |
| Thick and Other Essays | Tressie McMillan Cotton | Thick and Other Essays |
| This Book Is Anti-Racist | Tiffany Jewell | This Book Is Anti-Racist |
| This Will Be My Undoing | Morgan Jerkins | This Will Be My Undoing |
| Unappologetic: A Black, Queer and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements | Charlene Carruthers | |
| We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation | Jeff Chang | We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation |
| When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir | Patrisse Cullors, Asha Bandele | When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir |
| Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States A Trouthout Collect | Alicia Garza | |
| Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria | Beverly Daniel Tatum | Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria |
| Why I No Longer Talking to White People About Race | Reni Eddo-Lodge | Why I No Longer Talking to White People About Race |
Children’s Books
| Title | Author | Link to Purchase |
| An ABC of Equality (Ages 3-5) | Chana Giselle Ewing and Paulina Morgan | |
| No! My First Book of Protest (Ages 3-5) | Julie Merberg and Molly Egan | |
| Let’s Talk About Race (Ages 4-8) | Julius Lester | |
| I’m An Activist (Ages 6-9) | Wil Mara | |
| Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness (Ages 7-12) | Anastasia Higginbotham | |
| We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices (Ages 9-12) | Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson | |
| This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How To Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work (Ages 10-17) | Tiffany Jewell | |
| Just Mercy: A True Story of the Fight For Justice, adapted for young adults (Ages 12 and up) | Bryan Stevenson | |
| Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and you (Ages 12 and up) | Jason Reynolds and Ibram Kendi | |
| The Day You Begin | Jacqueline Woodson | |
| Antiracist Baby (Baby-3) | Ibram X. Kendi Sulwe Lupita Nyongo | |
| Freedom Over Me | Ashley Bryan |