Works on Racism

We encourage all members to deepen their understanding of the role of racism in our society and our professions through the following resources:

Books

Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: the Origins of our Discontent, Random House, 2020.

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, New Press, 2020.

Dorothy Roberts, Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-first Century, New Press, 2012.

Heather McGee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, One World, 2021.

Harriet A. Washington, Medical Apartheid: the Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, Anchor Books, 2008.

Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: and Other Conversations about Race, Basic Books, 2017.

Jonathan M. Metzl, The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease, Beacon Press, 2011

Robin Diangelo, While Fragility: Why It's so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, Beacon Press, 2018.

Ibram X. Kendi, How to Become an Antiracist, One World, 2019

Ijeoma Oluo, Mediocre: the Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, Seal Press, 2020.

Film

I Am Not Your Negro, directed by Raoul Peck

Podcasts

Code Switch

The 1619 Project: Examining the Legacy of Slavery and the Building of a Nation

Seeing White