Some Books Ideas
We recommend that you look for these books at your local independent bookstore or library. Amazon does not need your money! https://bookshop.org is an online retailer where you can specify a local bookstore, and the profits from your purchases will go to that bookstore.
- Gene Sharp, How to Start a Revolution
- Amy Ellis Nutt, Becoming Nicole: The inspiring story of transgender actor-activist Nicole Maines and her extraordinary family
- Ijeoma Oluo, So you want to talk about Race?
- Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
- Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
- Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
- Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
- Ezra Klein, Why We’re Polarized
- George Lakoff, Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think
- Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
- Simone Weil, The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations Towards the Human Being
- George Lakoff, Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision
List of Books for Challenging Times
The following list is taken from the https://www.my50bookishfriends.com blog:
Histories To Remind Us That We Have Been Here Before:
1. An Unfinished Love Story
2. G-Man
3. The Devil’s Chessboard
4. How Democracies Die
History Books To Remind Us How Far We Have Come:
1. Harvest of Empire
2. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of The United States
3. 1491
4. A Queer History of the United States
Memoirs To Inspire Resistance:
1. Being Heumann
2. Long Walk To Freedom
3. Malcolm and Me
Anti-Racism Work:
1. My Grandmother’s Hands
2. When They Call You a Terrorist
3. Unapologetic
4. For White People Who Teach In The Hood
WWII Resistance Inspiration:
1. The Nightingale
2. Beneath the Scarlet Sky
3. The Winemaker’s Wife
4. The Last Green Valley
Movies
The Penguin Lessons (Netflix)
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