Racial Justice Reading

Recommended by the Washburn Law Faculty

• 1619 Project and Podcast by Nikole Hannah-Jones (recommended by Professor Chadwick)
• American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass by Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton (recommended by Professor Boyack)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (recommended by Professors Elrod and Sourgens)
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (recommended by Professor Elrod)
• Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah (recommended by Dean Lowry)
• The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes edited by Arnold Rampersad (recommended by Professor Westbrook)
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (recommended by Professor Boyack)
• The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran (recommended by Professor Boyack)
• A Conversation on Race by The New York Times (video) (recommended by Professor Kowalska)
• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (recommended by Professor Judd)
• Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites? The Asian Ethnic Experience Today by Mia Tuan (recommended by Professor Glashausser)
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (recommended by Professor Ewert)
• How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (recommended by Carla Pratt)
• The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (recommended by Professor Marsha Griggs)
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson (recommended by Professors Francis, Grant, Martin, Matthews, and Ramirez)
• Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black by Gregory Howard Williams(recommended by Professor Glashausser)
• March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell (3-volume graphic/illustrated novel) (recommended by Professor Kowalska)
• Native Son by Richard Wright (recommended by Professor Alaka)
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (recommended by Professors Francis, Grant, Martin, and Ramirez)
• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn (recommended by Professor Matthews)
• Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship by Charles R. Epp, Steven Maynard-Muddy, and Donald Haider-Markel (recommended by Professor Hodgkinson)
• Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (recommended by Professor Ewert)
• Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law and Social Norms by Carol M. Rose and Richard R. W. Brooks (recommended by Professor Boyack)
• Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger (recommended by Dean Lowry and Professor Westbrook)
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde (recommended by Professor Chadwick)
• Shattered Bonds: The Color Of Child Welfare by Dorothy Roberts (recommended by Professor Chadwick)
• Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (recommended by Carla Pratt)
• Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Stokely Carmichael (recommended by Professor Marsha Griggs)
• Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau (recommended by Professor Sourgens)
• There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz (recommended by Professor Alaka)
• Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom (recommended by Professor Ewert)
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (recommended by Dean Leisinger and Professor Hodgkinson)
• Waking Up White by Debby Irving (recommended by Professor Grant)
• "Was Blind But Now I See:" White Race Consciousness and the Law by Barbara J. Flagg (recommended by Professor Elrod)
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo (recommended by Professors Grant and Kowalska
• Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White by Frank Wu (recommended by Professor Francis)