ODU Libraries offer diverse perspectives on the history of racial injustice, racial divide, and anti-racism activism across the United States through a curated list of books and other materials - compiled from the Libraries' available resources. ODU Libraries thank faculty members and others for their expertise and suggestions in forming this list designed to serve the Monarch community.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
When We Fight, We Win! Twenty-First-Century Social Movements and the Activists that are Transforming our World by Greg Jobin-Leeds
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
Who do you serve, who do you protect? Police violence and resistance in the United States by Maya Schenwar, etc.
The Art of Protest: Culture and activism from the civil rights movement to the streets of Seattle by T.V. Reed
Managing White Supremacy: Race, politics, and citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia by J. Douglass Smith
Critical Race Theory: The key writings that formed the movement by Kimberle Crenshaw
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
White Fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin DiAngelo
The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century by Catherine R. Squires
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin
The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement by Andrew G. Ferguson
The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States by Laird W. Bergad
Crisis of the House Divided; An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates by Harry V. Jaffa
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War by Harry V. Jaffa
The Oxford handbook of slavery in the Americas by Mark Smith & Robert Paquette
Slave and Citizen: The Negro in the Americas by Frank Tannenbaum
White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era by Shelby Steele
President Lecture Series Talk (2016) by Alicia Garza, Social Activist & Co-Creator Of The Viral Twitter Hashtag And Movement #BlackLivesMatter
The Price of Racial Reconciliation by Ronald W. Walters
Dream and Legacy: Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Post-Civil Rights Era by Michael L. Clemons, Donathan L. Brown, and William H. L. Dorsey
Racism in the Post Civil Rights Era: Now You See It, Now You Don't by Robert C. Smith
"Can we all get along?" Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics by Paula D. McClain and Joseph Stewart, Jr.