Books Addressing Racism

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble, 2018; related Open Transcripts talk by the author

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley, 1965; a 1964 interview with Malcolm X from the AP archives

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubank, 2018; related Sounds of Ethics podcast

The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America by D. Watkins, 2015; related NPR interview

Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney Cooper, 2017; NPR review

The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person by Frederick Joseph, 2020, written for young people with interviews with other writers and activists; in this edition of The Tight Rope, hosts Cornel West and Tricia Rose speak with Joseph about myriad issues including his creation of the largest GoFundMe campaign in history

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry, 2019; related Free Library of Philadelphia interview

Bring the War Home by Kathy Belew, 2018; NPR interview with the author

Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life edited by Ruha Benjami, 2019

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, 2020; related NPR interview

Dispatches from the Race War by Tim Wise, 2020; Apple Podcast with the author

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, by Brittney Cooper, 2018; Smart Brown Girl Book Club conversation with the author

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall, 2020; related NPR review by Ericka Taylor

Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement by Kathleen Blee, 2012; the author on NPR’s Code Switch

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Byron Stevenson; the author’s TED Talk

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor  by Layla Saad, 2020; related NPR interview

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo, 2020; related Here and Now segment

Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson, 2015; related interview on NPR’s Code Switch

New Black Man (2nd ed) by Mark Anthony Neal, 2015; related NPR interview

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, 2012; related NPR interview

Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism by Seyward Darby, 2020; related NPR interview

So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo, 2018; related Talk at Google

The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903; in 2003, Michele Norris hosted interviews in honor of the book’s 100th anniversary

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson, 2010, is described as “the first complete history of the Great Black Migration from start to finish, north, east, west” told through the lives of three characters; NPR interview with the author

Well That Escalated Quickly by Franchesca Ramsey, 2018; related Comedy For Social Change from NPR

Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein, 2020; related interview by Klein of Sam Rosenfeld, author of the book The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era