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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

The Debt by Randall Robinson

Where Do We Go from Here by Martin Luther King Jr.

Black Reconstruction by W E B DuBois

Reconstruction by Eric Foner

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

Poems by Audre Lorde

 

 FILM/VIDEO

Cracking the Codes by Shakti Butler

The 13th by Ava DuVernay 

The House I Live In by Eugene Jarecki 

 

ORGANIZATIONS

White Awake

Fellowship of Reconciliation

Sunshine Behavioral Health | Discussion Guide on the impact of racism and discrimination in the Black community

 

 

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