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We recommend these resources.
For a Book Club
Understanding History
- The People’s History of the United States: Howard Zinn
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America: Ibram X. Kendi
- The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism: Jemar Tisby
- Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to Present: Harriet Washington
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth or Our Racial Divide: Carol Anderson
- Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America: Juan Gonzalez
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption: Bryan Stevenson
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America: Richard Rothstein
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness: Michelle Alexander
- The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration: Isabel Wilkerson
- The Making of Asian America: A History: Erika Lee
- The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism: Edward E. Baptist
- An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States: Roxanne Dunbar-Oritz
- Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty: Dorothy Roberts
Transracial Adoptees
- A Long Way Home: A Memoir: Saroo Brierley
- A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee’s Search for Her Roots: Katy Robinson
- Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists: Janine Myung Ja, Michael Allen Potter
- All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir: Nicole Chung
- Beyond Two Worlds: Marijane Huang
- Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption: Susan Devan Harness
- Black Baby White Hands: A View from the Crib: Jaiya John
- Decoding Our Origins: The Lived Experiences of Colombian Adoptees: Abby Forero-Hilty
- Finding Joi: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Love: Joi R Fisher
- Fish Heads and Folktales: Reflections on Culture, Family, and Life from a Korean Adoptee: Peter M. Moran
- Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee’s Return to Korea : Jane Jeong Trenka
- Growing up Black in White: Kevin D. Hofmann
- I Didn’t Know I Was Black Until You Told Me: Thomas Kirst
- In Their Voices: Black Americans on Transracial Adoption: Rhonda M. Roorda
- In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories: Rita Simon
- Keurium: J S Lee
- Lucky Girl: A Memoir: Mei-Ling Hopgood
- My Fathers’ Daughter: A Story of Family and Belonging: Hannah Pool
- Not My White Savior: A Memoir in Poems: Julayne Lee
- Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir : Jenny Heijun Wills
- Once They Hear My Name: Korean Adoptees and Their Journeys Toward Identity: Ellen Lee
- Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption: Hane Jeong Trenka
- Parenting in the Eye of the Storm: Katie Naftzger
- Prison Baby: A Memoir: Deborah Jiang-Stein
- Rainbows But Not Unicorns: My Adoption Truth: Mae Claire
- The Harris Narratives: An Introspective Study of a Transracial Adoptee: Susan Harris O’Connor
- The Colour of Difference: Journeys in transracial adoption: Sarah Armstrong
- The Language of Blood: Jane Jeong Trenka
- The Perks of Being An Adoptee: An Adoptee’s view of the way she is Viewed: Mae Claire
- Who Am I Really: An Adoptee Memoir : Damon Davis
Movies
- The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (6 part series)
- Harvest of Empire
- 13th (Netflix)
- When They See Us (Netflix)
- Race: The Power of an Illusion
- Selma
- Time: The Kalief Browder Story
Podcasts
- Pass the Mic
- Pod Save the People
- Truth’s Table
- Seeing White (Scene On Radio)
- Chasing Justice
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