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Anti-Racist Musts: Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary

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This guide collects the "Anti-Racist Musts" shared each week by the guest lecturers in the series, Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary. Content purchased by the Hesburgh Libraries is accessible to current students, faculty, and staff. Resources that are available on the open web are indicated by an icon.

About the series

Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary
A three-part initiative of the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights aimed at providing students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Notre Dame with sustained, critical engagement on interdisciplinary topics related to understanding systemic racism, and committing to the daily work of anti-racism.

Fr. Bryan Massingale

"The Assumptions of White Privilege and What We Can Do About It," Bryan N. Massingale, National Catholic Reporter, June 1, 2020

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (e-book) by Michelle Alexander
Publication Date: 2012
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I Am Not Your Negro (documentary)
2016

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Desegregating Dixie: The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992 (e-book) by Mark Newman
Publication Date: 2018

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Wesley Lowery

The Children by David Halberstam
Publication Date: 1998

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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 (e-book) by Ibram X. Kendi (Editor); Keisha N. Blain (Editor)
Publication Date: 2021

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The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Publication Date: 2018

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The Marshall Project
The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system.

Frank Leon Roberts

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
Publication Date: 2003

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Damon Berry

Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion and American Nationalism, 1865-1898 (e-book) by Edward J. Blum
Publication Date: 2015

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Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK’s Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930 (e-book) by Kelly J. Baker
Publication Date: 2017

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White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones
Publication Date: 2020

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Dolly Chugh

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Publication Date: 2010

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The 1619 Project (podcast), Hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do (e-book) by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Publication Date: 2019

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Sunny Hostin

Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Publication Date: 2020

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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism (e-book) by Robin DiAngelo
Publication Date: 2018

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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Publication Date: 2003

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Jeanne Theoharis

Why Busing Failed: Race, Media and the National Resistance to School Desegregation (e-book) by Matthew F. Delmont
Publication Date: 2016

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The First Rainbow Coalition (documentary), PBS
Premiered 2020

The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee by Patrick D. Jones
Publication Date: 2009

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Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn (e-book) by Brian Purnell
Publication Date: 2013

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Amy Spitalnick, Jessica Phillips & Michael Bloch

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (e-book) by Michelle Alexander
Publication Date: 2012
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Publication Date: 2016

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"Skin in the Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism," Eric K. Ward, Political Research Associates, 2017

Jonathan Metzl

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
Publication Date: 2021

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Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Publication Date: 2020

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Black Reconstruction in America by W. E. B. Du Bois
Call Number: E 668 .D83 2007
Publication Date: 1935 (Originally)

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Christina Wolbrecht

The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (e-book) by Alexander Keyssar
Publication Date: 2000

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Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement (e-book) by Cathleen D. Cahill
Publication Date: 2020

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Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks
Call Number: HQ 1426 .H675 2000
Publication Date: 2000

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DeRay Mckesson

So You Want to Talk about Race (e-book) by Ijeoma Oluo
Publication Date: 2018

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Matthew Aubourg, Miranda Cuozzo, Frankie Tran, Mikki Vaughn & Malik Zaire

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Call Number: PR 9387.9 .A34354 A44 2013
Publication Date: 2013

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Beloved by Toni Morrison

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The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Call Number: PS 3614 .G97 A6 2017
Publication Date: 2017

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