Resources

Baradaran, Meehrsa.  The Racial Wealth Gap: A Brief History: W. W. Norton & Company, 1925

Brook, Daniel. The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2019

Brown, Dorothy. Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past: Crown Publishing, 2026

Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita, ed. Berry, Mary Frances, ed. Franklin, V. P. ed. Reparations and Reparatory Justice: Past, Present, and Future Reparation and Reparatory Justice: Past, Present, and Future: University of Illinois, 2024

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me: One World, 2015

Cross, Christina J. Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist Between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families: Harvard University Press, 2025

Darity, William A. and A. Kirsten Mullen. From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century: University of North Carolina Press, 2020

Diangelo, Robin. Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm: Beacon Press, 2021

Diangelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism: Beacon Press, 2018

Goza, Joel Edward. Rebirth of a Nation: Reparations and Remaking America: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2024

Hannah-Jones, Nikole. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story: One World, 2021

Jarrett-Schell, Peter. Reparations: A Plan for Churches: Church Publishing, 2023

Jones, Robert P. The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future: Simon & Schuster, 2023

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

Kendi, Ibram X., Blain, Keisha N. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019: One World, 2021

Magee, Rhonda V. The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness: Penguin Random House, 2019

Major, Barbara Crain and Barndt, Joseph. Deconstructing Racism: A Path Toward Lasting Change: Fortress Press, 2023

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

Menakem, Resma A. My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies: Central Recovery Press, 2017

Montero, David. The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations: Legacy Lit, 2024

Obear, Kathy.  …But I’m Not Racist!: Tools for Well-Meaning Whites: The Difference Press, 2017

Rose, Tricia.  Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives- and How We Break Free: Basic Books, 2024

Singh, Anneliesse A. The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism & Engage in Collective Healing:  New Harbinger Publications, Inc., 2019

Smith, Clint. How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America: Little, Brown, and Company, 2021

Tisby, Jemar. How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey toward Racial Justice: Zondervan, 2021

Tisby, Jemar. The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism: Zondervan, 2019

Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents: Random House, 2020

Williams, Justin Michael, Tygielski, Shelly. how we ended racism: Realizing a New Possibility in One Generation: Sounds True, 2023