This is a list of books, essays, and films that inspire and inform this project. If you have anything to add to this list, email your suggestions to thefruitstare [at] gmail [dot] com
ON CULTURAL APPROPRIATION / MUSIC
Everything but the Burden edited by Greg Tate
Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison
Blues People by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
Rhythm and Business edited by Norman Kelley
Black Music, White Business by Frank Kofsky
ON REPARATIONS
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Where Do We Go from Here by Martin Luther King Jr.
Black Reconstruction by W E B DuBois
Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States
Civil Liberties Act of 1988 Wiki
ON WHITENESS / MUSIC
The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness
The Wages of Whiteness by David Roediger
White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
The Future of Whiteness by Lina Martin Alcoff
ON ANTI-RACISM
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Racism: A Short History by George M. Fredrickson
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power by Amy Sonnie and James Tracy
ON FEMINISM
The Will to Change by Bell Hooks
Intersectionality Theory by Kimberele Crenshaw
FILM/VIDEO
Cracking the Codes by Shakti Butler
The House I Live In by Eugene Jarecki
ORGANIZATIONS