Carol Anderson Recommends
Sing, Unburied, Sing by ISBN: 9781501126062
The Warmth of Other Suns by ISBN: 9780679444329
Heavy by ISBN: 9781501125652
Worse Than Slavery by ISBN: 0684830957
Dividing Lines by ISBN: 9780817311704
War Without Mercy by ISBN: 9780394751726
Blood at the Root by ISBN: 9780393293012
Crossroads at Clarksdale by ISBN: 0807869856
Black Against Empire by ISBN: 9780520271852
Books & Articles
Be sure to review the recommended books from the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion newsletter's "Living and Learning About Race Resource Guide"; hover over the "info" icon to learn why these titles have been suggested.
Read Carol Anderson Recommends from the New York Times article Christensen, Lauren. “‘Every Work of American Literature Is About Race’: Writers on How We Got Here.” The New York Times, 30 June 2020. NYTimes.com, https://www.nytimes.com/article/books-race-america.html
October is Global Diversity Awareness Month, and the Office of Global Strategy and Initiatives (GSI) has compiled the following list of recommendations as a resource for learning about issues related to diversity around the world from faculty and staff in the Emory community. Global Diversity Resource Library. https://global.emory.edu/news-events/news/2020/global-diversity-resources
Some suggested Films & Videos
- 13th"Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America." A Netflix original, now freely available on YouTube.
- I am not Your NegroWriter James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House. (This and other films hosted on Kanopy are available for current Emory students, faculty, and staff. Non-Emory users may have Kanopy access through their local public library or educational institution.)
- John Lewis: Good TroubleAn intimate account of legendary U.S. Representative John Lewis’ life, legacy and more than 60 years of extraordinary activism — from the bold teenager on the front lines of the Civil Rights movement to the legislative powerhouse he was throughout his career. After Lewis petitioned Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to help integrate a segregated school in his hometown of Troy, Alabama, King sent “the boy from Troy” a round trip bus ticket to meet with him. From that meeting onward, Lewis became one of King’s closest allies. He organized Freedom Rides that left him bloodied or jailed, and stood at the front lines in the historic marches on Washington and Selma. He never lost the spirit of the “boy from Troy” and called on his fellow Americans to get into “good trouble” until his passing on July 17, 2020.
- “Suppressed: The Fight to Vote.”A documentary by Robert Greenwald weaves together personal stories from voters across the state of Georgia to paint an undeniable picture of voter suppression in the 2018 midterm election where Stacey Abrams fought to become the first Black female governor in the U.S.
For DeKalb Public Library Users
Archives & Manuscripts
The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library has many collections documenting social justice activism as well as the activities of oppressive power structures and white supremacist groups.
You can search across the Rose Library's holdings in Emory Finding Aids. For materials related specifically to the movement for African American civil rights, please visit our African American History and Culture LibGuide. Our staff would be happy to assist in connecting you with ersources from the archives; please contact us at rose.library@emory.edu!
Image: Southern Christian Leadership Conference records, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives & Rare Book Library, Emory University.
GSI recommends Global Diversity Books
October is Global Diversity Awareness Month, and the Office of Global Strategy and Initiatives (GSI) has compiled the following list of recommendations as a resource for learning about issues related to diversity around the world from faculty and staff in the Emory community.
https://global.emory.edu/support/news-events/news/2020/global-diversity-resources.html
- Indaba, my children by Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa.
Mutwa, C., & Hughes, T. (1966). Indaba, my children. London: Kahn & Averill; Stanmore P.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by ISBN: 9780345350688
The New Jim Crow by ISBN: 9781595581037
Graves Are Not yet Full by ISBN: 9780465006410
- Three-letter plague : a young man's journey through a great epidemic by Jonny Steinberg
Steinberg, Jonny. Three-letter Plague : A Young Man's Journey through a Great Epidemic. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2008.
The Invisible Cure by ISBN: 9780374281526
Beyond Religion by ISBN: 9780547636351
Brazil-Maru by ISBN: 1566890004
Good Morning Comrades by ISBN: 9781897231401
The Centaur in the Garden by ISBN: 9780345316691
The Pagoda by ISBN: 9780679454892
The Black Jacobins by ISBN: 9780679724674
- hino: Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940.
Chang, Jason Oliver. Chino: Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2017.
The Groundings with My Brothers by ISBN: 9781788731157
Another Arabesque by ISBN: 9781592135394
Radical Moves by ISBN: 0807872857
No One Home by ISBN: 0804741824
In the Aftermath of Genocide by ISBN: 0822331217
Lives in Between by ISBN: 9780809016266
Memories of a Future Home by ISBN: 9780804753029
The Vanishing Half by ISBN: 9780525536970
American Spy by ISBN: 9780812998955
Memorial Drive by ISBN: 9780062248572
