Resource list
In this online list, the IARA team has assembled some of the most impactful — and practically helpful — resources for antiracist change work. Whether you’re on the lookout for best practices or seeking historical context, this list can be a starting point. Keep scrolling for our favorite books, articles, podcasts, and more.
Book recommendations
How to be an antiracist
By Ibram X. Kendi
Race talk and the conspiracy of silence
By Derald Wing Sue
The condemnation of Blackness
By Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Courageous conversations about race
By Glenn E. Singelton
“Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?”
By Beverly Daniel Tatum
White fragility
By Robin Diangelo
Just Mercy
By Bryan Stevenson
The Broken Heart of America
By Walter Johnson
The Color of Law
By Richard Rothstein
Black Liberation
By Keeanga Yamatta-Taylor
The new Jim Crow
By Michelle Alexander
The fire next time
By James Baldwin
One person, no vote
By Carol Anderson
Never caught
By Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Poverty, by America
By Matthew Desmond
Article recommendations
– 1619 Project, New York Times Magazine, ed. Nikole Hannah-Jones
– The Case for Reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates
– Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Race, Robin DiAngelo
– The Coronavirus was an Emergency Until…, Adam Sewer
– Don’t Understand What You’re Seeing? Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
– The Minneapolis Uprising in Context, Elizabeth Hinton
For anyone working with children:
– Because several folks keep asking for a reading list for children, Vazquez and Jones
Podcast recommendations
Some of my Best Friends Are…
Hosted by Professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad (IARA Director) and Ben Austen
1619
Hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones from the New York Times
Untying Knots
Hosted by Erica Licht (IARA Research Project Director) and Nikhil Raghuveera
Come Through with Rebecca Carroll
Hosted by Rebecca Carroll
Boston-based organizations
– Mass Action Against Policy Brutality
– SURJ Boston – Showing Up for Racial Justice
– The Mel King Institute for Community Building
About IARA
The Institutional Antiracism and Accountability (IARA) Project uses research to advance antiracism as a core value and institutional norm.