New Perspectives Discussion Series

 

 

   

 

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Resources for Further Exploration

 

 

Books (asterisk * indicates titles also available as Books on CD)

• How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance by Akiba Solomon https://bit.ly/3sYzqKn
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander https://bit.ly/39gU5S6
• Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington https://bit.ly/3opMYev
• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly https://bit.ly/3adp0hi
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin https://bit.ly/3iZbbaj
• *We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates https://bit.ly/3t9jSDM
• *Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho https://bit.ly/36eYO50
• *Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry https://bit.ly/3r73thp
• *When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors https://bit.ly/3sYzh9N
• *How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi https://bit.ly/36bVvev
• *Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon https://bit.ly/3pgsoOR
• *Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi https://bit.ly/3a7VjOQ
• *Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic, Rocking Our Truth by Beverly Bond https://bit.ly/3iQxNtn

 

Documentaries, Docuseries, and Videos

• Black History: A Retrospective (2010) https://bit.ly/3cqmMhB
• Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (2019) https://bit.ly/36gZLcP
• Whose Streets? (2017) https://bit.ly/3cd5PH7
• Baltimore Rising (2018) https://bit.ly/3pn7Zrk
• I Am Not Your Negro (2017) https://bit.ly/2KNV9mW
• Kevin Hart’s Guide to Black History (2020) https://bit.ly/2KPWidL
• Dark Girls (2013) https://bit.ly/36cRbvE
• Birth of a Movement (2017) https://bit.ly/2LYcsm9
• Back to Natural (2019) https://bit.ly/3iMGgxZ
• Black America Since MLK (2016) https://bit.ly/2Mp8pPp

 

Picture Books

• In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers illustrated by Javaka Steptoe https://bit.ly/2Mv85ys
• All Because You Matter written by Tami Charles, illustrated by Bryan Collier https://bit.ly/2LX2vFx
• Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment by Parker Curry and Jessica Curry, illustrated by Brittany Jackson https://bit.ly/39i2ODC
• Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration written by Samara Cole Doyon, illustrated by Kaylani Juanita https://bit.ly/3qXV6nV
• A Place Inside of Me by Zetta Elliott, illustrated by Noa Denmon https://bit.ly/2NyAEeZ
• Black is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy, illustrated by Ekua Holmes https://bit.ly/3qOMcck
• Hands Up! by Breanna J. McDaniel, illustrated by Shane W. Evans https://bit.ly/2MtXaVL
• Brown Sugar Babe by Charlotte Watson Sherman, illustrated by Akem https://bit.ly/3ccBisY
• That is My Dream!: A Picture Book of Langston Hughes’s “Dream Variation” illustrated by Daniel Miyares https://bit.ly/3a1t3NI
• Full, Full, Full of Love by Trish Cooke, illustrated by Paul Howard https://bit.ly/3qZ1dbT

 

Middle Grade Books

• Powerful Words: More Than 200 Years of Extraordinary Writing by African Americans by Wade Hudson, illustrated by Sean Qualls https://bit.ly/3ofsEwc
• Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes https://bit.ly/3c9Xfcd
• Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice by Mahogany L. Browne, illustrated by Theodore Taylor III https://bit.ly/2Yj4V3Q
• The Power Book written by Claire Saunders et al., illustrated by Joelle Avelino and David Broadbent https://bit.ly/39ihvX5
•  A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée https://bit.ly/3pnvccT
• A Child’s Introduction to African American History: The Experience, People, and Events that Shaped our Country by Jabari Asim, illustrated by Lynn Gaines https://bit.ly/3a9NfNx
• A Day at the Museum by Christine Platt, illustrated by Sharon Sordo https://bit.ly/2Yf7vYi
• The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson https://bit.ly/3sYe1km
• Clean Getaway by Nic Stone, illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile https://bit.ly/3sSu5UO
• Turning Point by Paula Chase https://bit.ly/2KOjklc

 

Teen Books

•  Things That Make White People Uncomfortable: Adapted for Young Readers by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin https://bit.ly/3qUXQT6
• This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell, illustrated by Aurélia Durand https://bit.ly/3qOTFbm
• All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely https://bit.ly/3qTCDZJ
• I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina, illustrated by Stacey Robinson and John Jennings https://bit.ly/36f6fsV
• Anger Is a Gift by Mark Oshiro https://bit.ly/3ckaKGt
• Daughter of Jubilation by Kara Lee Corthron https://bit.ly/3iQnLZf
• Say Her Name by Zetta Elliott, illustrated by Loveis Wise https://bit.ly/3pkcGCg
• Bright Lights, Dark Nights by Stephen Emond https://bit.ly/2YgUg9D
• How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon https://bit.ly/3qTjMOv
• Dig by A. S. King https://bit.ly/3pm271G

 

Additional Resources and Organizations

• Center for Racial Justice in Education https://centerracialjustice.org/
• The Ohio State University Office of Diversity and Inclusion – Racial Equity https://odi.osu.edu/racial-justice-resources
• Black Heritage Library and Multicultural Center http://www.blackheritagecenter.org/#/
• The New York Times Race, Racism and Racial Justice Resources https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/race-racism-and-racial-justice-resources
• Ta-Nehisi Coates’s website https://ta-nehisicoates.com/
• Black Freedom Struggle in the United States https://blackfreedom.proquest.com/