On Friday, June 5, we were joined by Peniel Joseph, Ph.D., professor and founding director of the LBJ School’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at The University of Texas at Austin and Jay Williams, president of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving in discussion on the roots of racism and inequality in our nation, the history of resistance movements, and specifically how inequality manifests in our Greater Hartford community today.
To continue the conversation, here is a list of resources recommended by our speakers and guests.
Resource List
Articles
“On Martin Luther King’s 90th birthday, a reminder of how far we have come and how far we still have to go,” by Dr. Peniel Joseph, Washington Post
“The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
Resources
1619 Project, The New York Times
The Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, The University of Texas at Austin
Books
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Peniel E. Joseph
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity by Sarah Haley
Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South by Talitha L. LeFlouria
Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (National Book Award Winner) by Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X Kendi
Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William “Sandy” Darity
Children’s Books
Anti-Racist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
Attendee Recommendations
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
White Ally Book List
Key Bookstore
Book Recommendations: Black Lives Matter
RJ Julia Bookstore
Black Lives Matter Movement | Resources
Hartford Public Library
The World Affairs Council of CT Blog 