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Anti-Racism

Interdisciplinary

In an attempt to break down all of the various and interconnected ways that systemic racism is a public health crisis, we have introduced a sampling of books from our catalog. Scroll down the page or click on the sections below to navigate to a selection of books for each category.

Activism | Criminal Justice | Disability/Ableism | Economics | Education | Environmental | Feminism/Gender | Health | History | Housing | LGBTQIA+ | Mass Incarceration | Media/Pop Culture | Music & Art | Politics | Science & Technology

Activism

When They Call You a Terrorist
March: Book One
Me and white supremacy combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor
Bearing Witness While Black
#HashtagActivism
Art for Equality
Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusive Excellence
Structural Injustice
Killing Rage
Women's Activism, Feminism, and Social Justice
Activism, Alliance Building, and the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
Promoting Social Justice Through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Civil Rights and Beyond
A People's Art History of the United States
Out of the Shadows, into the Streets!
The Activist's Handbook
The Fire This Time
This Book is Anti-Racist

Criminal Justice

Mobilized by Injustice
The End of Policing
Race, Criminal Justice, and Migration Control
Mass Incarceration
Building the Prison State
The New Criminal Justice Thinking
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?
The War on Neighborhoods
Black and Blue
Understanding Mass Incarceration
Bearing Witness While Black
Law Enforcement in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Charged
States of Delinquency
Just Mercy
Federal Reports on Police Killings
Presumed Criminal

Disability/Ableism

Nothing about Us Without Us
Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusive Excellence
Forging a Laboring Race
Ableism: the Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice
Making and Unmaking Disability
Disability
Enabling Acts
Feminist Disability Studies

Economic

A World More Concrete
Race for Profit
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America
Face Value
Illiberal Reformers
The Death Gap
Whose Detroit?
Broken Chains and Subverted Plans
Power to the Poor
Color Lines, Country Lines
Race and Retail
Race and the Invisible Hand
Inequality in America

Education

Pushout
Cutting School
Southern Stalemate
Transforming the Ivory Tower
The Color of Mind
Latino Access to Higher Education
The School to Prison Pipeline
Campus Counterspaces
Racial Taxation
Blackballed
Schooling Citizens
Academic Profiling
The Quest for Citizenship
Understanding the Black Flame and Multigenerational Education Trauma
Racial Battle Fatigue in Higher Education

Environmental

Environmental Racism in the United States and Canada
What the Eyes Don't See
Left to Chance
Environmental Racism and Classism
Environmental Justice, Popular Struggle and Community Development
Race, Place, and Environmental Justice after Hurricane Katrina
Environmental Justice
Black Faces, White Spaces
Come Hell or High Water
Environmental Justice
From the Ground Up

Feminism/Gender

How We Get Free
Well-Read Black Girl
Scandalize My Name
The Rising Tide of Color
Florynce Flo Kennedy
Race and Gender in the Classroom
Women's Rights As Multicultural Claims
Sister Outsider
Sister Citizen
All Bound up Together
Demonic Grounds
Outlaw Culture
From Black Power to Hip Hop
The Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America
Sisters in the Struggle
Feminist Trouble
Theories of the Flesh
Black Sexual Economies
A Black Women's History of the United States
Black Feminism Reimagined
Colonize This!
Hear Our Truths
No Mercy Here

Health

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Social Injustice and Public Health
Black Food Geographies
Dying at the Margins
Black Man in a White Coat Damon Tweedy
On Race and Medicine
The Inequality and African-American Health
Body and Soul: the Black Panther party and the fight against medical discrimination

History

Stamped from the Beginning
The Warmth of Other Suns
Reconstruction Updated Edition
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour
A People's History of the United States
Two Faces of Exclusion
Fugitive Science
The Common Cause
Transpacific Antiracism
The Threat of Race
Jim Crow's Legacy
Buried in the Bitter Waters
Measuring Manhood
The Black Cabinet

Housing

The Address Book
Unjust Deeds
Evicted
Race for Profit
The One-Way Street of Integration
The Geography of Opportunity
Gentrification and the Housing Crisis
Neighborhood
Us Versus Them
A Neighborhood That Never Changes
The Color of Law
Purging the Poorest

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Last Project Standing
Facing Segregation
Residential Segregation Patterns of Latinos in the United States, 1990-2000
The South Side
Little White Houses
Polite Protest

LGBTQIA+

Not Straight, Not White
Geisha of a Different Kind
They Called Us Enemy
In the Dream House
A Taste for Brown Bodies
Speak No Evil
Embodying Asian/American Sexualities
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Do You Remember House?
Drifting Toward Love
Nobody Is Supposed to Know
Afro-Fabulations
Black. Queer. Southern. Women
After the Party
Queer Times, Black Futures
Semi Queer
Flaming?

Mass Incarceration

The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration
American Prison
No Mercy Here
Understanding Mass Incarceration
From Slave Ship to Supermax
The Prison School
Slaves of the State
Charged
Building the Prison State
From Asylum to Prison
After Life Imprisonment

Media/Pop Culture

A Long, Long Way
Gordon Parks
Black Hollywood
Black Magic
Stars for Freedom
The Bad Sixties
Sister Citizen
Black Male Frames
Art for Equality
Black Women and Popular Culture
Outlaw Culture
From SWEETBACK to SUPER FLY
Provocateur
Citizenship Excess
Dangerous Curves
Race and Gender in Electronic Media
Zombies, Migrants, and Queers
Our Gang
Picture Freedom
Lockstep and Dance

Music & Art

Art for Equality
Norman Granz

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Move on Up
Ring Shout, Wheel About
Dancing in Blackness
Free Jazz/Black Power

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The Great White Way
Black Broadway
Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet
Big Band Jazz in Black West Virginia, 1930-1942
From Jim Crow to Jay-Z
The Product of Our Souls
Rocking the Closet
Latin Jazz
The Race of Sound
Reds, Whites, and Blues
Country Soul
Embodied Avatars
Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement
Black Cultural Production after Civil Rights
Building the Black Arts Movement
Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism

Politics

From Here to Equality
Citizen Brown
Suffrage Reconstructed
When Affirmative Action Was White
After the War on Crime
The Politics of Voter Suppression
Native Vote
One Person, No Vote
The Color of Law
Failed Promises
The Black Cabinet
Black and Blue

Science & Technology

Algorithms of Oppression
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Race after Technology
Illiberal Reformers
Medical Apartheid
Medical Bondage
The Skull Collectors
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Fixing The Poor
Examining Tuskegee

Source: Milner Library, Illinois State University, Systemic Racism "Interdiscplinary" https://guides.library.illinoisstate.edu/c.php?g=1052218&p=7647934