Here are a few non-fiction suggestions for reading on systemic racism, criminal justice, and understanding whiteness.
Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
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Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Massacre of 1919
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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Cuestión de justicia: La lucha por los olvidados de la justicia en Estados Unidos
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Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures
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The Fire This Time
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I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
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Locking up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
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The Origin of Others
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Playing While White: Privilege and Power on and off the Field
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The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
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Sister Outsider: Essays & Speeches by Audre Lorde
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The Source of Self Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
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So You Want to Talk about Race
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
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They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement
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What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation about Race in America
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
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Women, Race, and Class
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