Below are resources for broadening and refining your knowledge of the difficult subject of race compiled by our EPU team, including films, podcasts, books, and articles. We hope these resources will inspire you to join EPU in the fight to build a more connected, fair, and prosperous South for everyone.
Historical Texts & Documents
Books & Essays
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change by Marian Wright Edelman
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong by James W. Loewen
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James W. Loewen
Teaching What Really Happened by James W. Loewen
America’s Original Sin by Jim Wallis
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehesi Coates
The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson
Stamped From The Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Slavery and Social Death by Orlando Patterson
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo
Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler
A Letter to My Nephew by James Baldwin
Policing The Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter by Jordan T. Camp & Christina Heatherton
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehesi Coates
The Black battalion that rescued Tony Blinken’s stepfather by Steven A. Holmes
Let us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Called to Reconciliation by Jonathan C. Augustine
Before the Streetlights Come On by Heather McTeer Toney