Rope/Fire/Water Reading List
Pindell, Howardena, and Lowery Stokes Sims. The Heart of the Question: The Writings and Paintings of Howardena Pindell, 1997
Wilford, Adeze, ed. Howardena Pindell: Rope/Fire/Water, 2020
Lynching
Equal Justice Initiative. “Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror,” 2020
Goldsby, Jacqueline. A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature, 2006
Golio, Gary, and Charlotte Riley-Webb. Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song, 2017
Harris, Middleton A., et al, with foreword by Toni Morrison. The Black Book, 2019
Hill, Karlos K. The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History, 2021
Hill, Karlos K. Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory, 2016
Ifill A., Sherrilyn, with foreword by Bryan Stevenson. On the Courthouse Lawn, Revised Edition: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century, 2018
Johnson, Mat, and Warren Pleece. Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery, 2018
Ore, Ersula J. Lynching: Violence, Rhetoric, and American Identity (Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series), 2019
Pfeifer, Michael J. The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching, 2011
Tyson, Timothy B. The Blood of Emmett Till, 2017
Wells-Barnett, Ida B. On Lynchings, 2002
Wells-Barnett, Ida B. Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, 1892
Wood, Amy Louise. Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940, 2009
Police Brutality, Black Experience and the Tulsa Race Massacre
Acho, Emmanuel. Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, 2020
Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 2020
Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time, 2021
Butler, Paul. Choke Hold: Policing Black Men, 2018
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me, 2015
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. The Beautiful Struggle, 2008
DiAngelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, 2018
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man, 2018
Horace, Matthew. The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America’s Law, 2019
Marsh, Corinda Pitts. Holocaust in the Homeland: Black Wall Street's Last Day, 2014
Morrison, Toni. “A Humanist View,” 1975
Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, 2016
Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, 2020
Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, 2010
Books for Children and Young Adults
Acho, Emmanuel. Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy, 2021
Celano, Marianne, Marietta Collins, Ann Hazzard, and Jennifer Zivoin. Something Happened in Our Town (A Child's Story About Racial Injustice), 2019
Elliot, Zetta, and Loveis Wise. Say Her Name (Poems to Empower), 2021
Reynolds, Jason, and Ibram X. Kendi. Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You, 2021
Thomas, Angie. The Hate U Give, 2017
Weatherford, Carole Boston. Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, 2021
Other Resources
Dolan, Kerry A. “Why White People Downplay Their Individual Racial Privileges,” 2015
National Alliance on Mental Illness | Identity and Cultural Dimensions | Black/African-American
Black Lives Matter: Resources Archive Toolkit
- Healing Action
- Chapter Conflict Resolution
- Healing Justice
- Trayvon Taught Me for Black & Non-Black POC Organizers
- #TalkAbout Trayvon for White People
- #TrayvonMeEnseñó
Center for Racial Justice in Education
Videos
Always in Season by Jacqueline Olive, 2019
James Baldwin vs. William F. Buckley: A Legendary Debate from 1965
Debunking the Most Common Myths White People Tell about Race – Robin DiAngelo | NBC
Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi on How to Become Aware of White Privilege
Free, White, and 21 by Howardena Pindell
Nikole Hannah-Jones on the Impact and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
The Origins of Lynching Culture in the United States – Facing History and Ourselves
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
