Reading List

(here’s a way to buy books from Black-owned bookstores.)

Intersectional Environmentalism and Placemaking:

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Belonging: a Culture of Place by bell hooks

KC Panel on Race and the Food System

Intersectional Environmentalism: Why Environmental Justice is Essential for a Sustainable Future

Going Black to the Land During a Global Crisis

The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom

Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

Housing:

KC Tenants – Missouri Tenants Listening Experiment

Art World:

100 Black Artists Based in Kansas City – Compiled by River Makenzi (instagram)

Four Barriers to Change and Equity in the Visual Arts by Mel Mitchell-Jackson

Change the Museum (instagram)

An Open Letter to Arts Organizations Rampant with White Supremacy by Nana Chinara

Coronavirus, Structural Racism, Resistance and the Future We Must Create [Art World]

LACMA: Art and Resistance

Decolonize the Art World (Are.na)

PDF: Black, Brown, & Beige – Surrealism

What About Activism? (book)

Anti-Racism:

For context: Washington Post: The black women who launched the original anti-racist reading list and What is an Anti-Racist Reading List For?
And a call to understand that this must go beyond reading: When black people are in pain, white people just join book clubs

How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown

Anti-racism resources for white people (google doc)

PDF handout from the Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities

Being Antiracist – National Museum of African American History and Culture

Systemic Racism: 64 Practical Examples of the Challenges that Face Black Americans

The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates

1619 Podcast – listen

How Did We Get Here? 163 years of The Atlantic’s writing on race and racism in America

Ezra C Daniels: Empathy Myopia

Justice System:

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System exhibition and book

Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration exhibition and book

The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

PDF: Angela Davis – Are Prisons Obsolete?

NPR: How much do we need the police

Jacobin: How to be Anticapitalist by Erik Olin Wright

Faith:

Art and Faith by Makoto Fujimura

I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown

The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby

Divided by Faith by Emerson & Smith

White Friends Let’s Talk About Race by Nia Pycior
and A Partial Personal Account of Being Black in America

The Anti-Racist Devotional

For our White Friends Desiring to be Allies by Courtney Ariel