Resource of compiled Bibliographies in Social Justice
[If not obtaining these titles from your local Public Library, consider purchases from Black-owned bookstores. These are some resources to find the Black-owned bookstores near you :African American Literature Book Club or Libro - Black-Owned Bookstores to Support Right Now (and Always)If you are looking generally for Independent bookstores to support, note that in addition to the American Booksellers Association, there are eight regional trade associations that provide programming, education, and support for independent booksellers. Links to those Associations are here. ]
American Indian Literature Resources for Educators: An Annotated Bibliography.
This bibliography includes the Minnesota English Language Arts Standards for K-12, the grade level served, the title and author of the recommended book, and an annotation.
Anti-Racist Reading List by CategoriesThis Twitter post was created by
Victoria Alexander (
@victoriaalxndr), Program Coordinator of Salem State University's Leadership, Engagement, Advocacy, and Diversity LEAD. In this visual suggestion list, Alexander suggests "unlearning and relearning through literature as just one good jumping off point". The suggested readings are presented as "anti-racist reading list into sections" that include: Anti-Racist Starter Kit; Anti-Racist Intermediate Kit; Anti-Racist Topic Specifics; Anti-Racist Lit; Bios, Non-fiction, novels, personal narratives;
Anti-Racist Lit - Black Feminism; Anti Racist List Black LGBTQ+; and Anti-Racist lit Black Centered Fiction.
To expand your learning Alexander also created this regularly updated document "to be used as a resource for anyone looking to broaden their understanding of anti-racism and get involved to combat racism, specifically as it relates to anti-Blackness and police violence." :
https://tinyurl.com/antiracistresourceguideBlack Disabled Woman Syllabus: A CompilationA compilation of books, essays/articles, speeches, music, and other bodies of work that accurately explains the diverse forms of Blackness that exists for Black women, and how the lives of Black disabled women meshed within that discourse. Compiled by Vilissa Thompson.
Black Excellence in LIS SyllabusCompiled by
@tttkay, this list is open for anyone to contribute to.
Black Lives Matter Created by independent (crowdfunded & women-of-color-owned) bookstore
Kew and Willow Books in New York City.
A rotating list of titles that are currently available to help you and your children understand the movement.
Books - UC Berkeley Division of Equity and Inclusion
Created by
UC Berkeley Office of the Vice Chancellor: Equity & Inclusion. Books and more on topics related to equity, inclusion, access, and diversity. There are also additional
guides to podcasts, video, art, and more.
Books Matter - Children's LiteratureAnti-Defimation League’s collection address issues of identity, bias and bullying. Our featured books come with discussion guides for teachers and parents.
Disrupting Whiteness in Libraries and Librarianship: A Reading List
Developed by Karla J. Strand, DPhil, MLIS, Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian, University of Wisconsin System. This bibliography is number 89 in the series “Bibliographies in Gender and Women’s Studies,” published by the University of Wisconsin System Office of the Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian. This bibliography contains citations and links (when available) to resources focused on race, racism, and disrupting whiteness and white supremacy in libraries. Particular emphasis is placed on the field of library and information science and librarianship as a profession.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Reading List
This Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Reading List has been developed to assist faculty, staff, and students in gaining understanding and appreciation of DEI issues in our society. Developed in a partnership between the University of Missouri - Kansas City Division of Diversity and Inclusion and University of Missouri - Kansas City Libraries, this list shall be a “living document,” and suggestions of books to consider adding to the list are welcome and encouraged.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Reading Resources
Created by the University of California Global Health Institute. Resources include Statements from UC Leadership, Anti-Racism Resources book list, articles, podcasts, and movies/tv shows/videos. Additional links to Workshops, Trainings & Conferences, and Anti-Racism Guides & Tool-Kits.
Essential Books by Black Scholars on Science, Technology, Society, and Race
UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2) is an intersectional research community committed to reimagining technology, championing racial justice, and strengthening democracy through a mix of research, culture, and policy. C2i2 was co-founded in 2019 by Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble and Dr. Sarah T. Roberts and is home to the Minderoo Initiative on Technology and Power.
The resource page lists titles to read, media to watch, institutions to visit, and entities doing work in security.
Eye-Opening Books and Podcasts
From Berlin-Peck Memorial Library, in Berlin, CT, here are some eye-opening books and podcasts to help you on a journey towards social justice.
Feminist Reading Lounge + Resources
Feminist Reading Lounge features books and literature pertaining to intersectional feminism and women’s empowerment.
Indigenous Studies Blogs and podcasts
The Indigenous Studies Portal (iPortal) is a database of full-text electronic resources such as articles, e-books, theses, government publications, videos, oral histories, and digitized archival documents and photographs. The iPortal content has a primary focus on Indigenous peoples of Canada with a secondary focus on North American materials and beyond.
The feed links on the above linked page lead to a series of Indigenous written/focused blogs and podcasts. These have not been curated for their scholarly value, but rather they have been selected to showcase the variety of perspectives that exist under the label Indigenous content
And a catalog link to Library & Archives materials.
LatinoStories
Latino Stories was founded in 2006, making it one of the oldest sites dedicated to Latino literature and Latino studies. It was redesigned in 2020 with a mission to provide resources that provide real stories of Latino populations.
In addition to such features as statistics on Latino Americans across the country there are author sites, lists of recommended Latino films, high school and children’s reading guides, and Best Of lists of Latino authors — from biography and essays to literature to genre writers.
Litwin Books - Library Juice Press : Race & Ethnicity
Litwin Books - Library Juice Press : Social Justice
Litwin Books is an independent academic publisher of books about media, communication and the cultural record. We are interdisciplinary in scope and intention, and gather together works from a range of disciplines, including archival studies, media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, information studies, philosophy of technology, communications history, history of archives and libraries, and related fields. Our independence from larger institutions gives us the freedom to offer critical perspectives that cut against the grain, as well as occasionally to give a scholar free rein with a work that is outside their usual publishing stream.
With our Library Juice Press imprint we follow the same philosophy, publishing books that examine theoretical and practical issues in librarianship from a critical perspective, for an audience of professional librarians and students of library science.
MPJI’s Black August Booklist 2021
Black August, an annual commemoration that began in the California prison system in the 1970s to honor political prisoners and freedom fighters of the Black Liberation Movement killed by the state. It is a call for us to remember the humanity of political prisoners (old and new) and those who have called out the injustices of the world. At the Marsha P. Johnson Institute, we don’t see ourselves outside of the BLACK radical position — we ARE the BLACK radical position.
The month is also a commitment to a higher level of practice, discipline, and study.
Racial Justice in America: Some Reading Recommendations
The Law Deans Antiracist Clearinghouse Project was formed in the spring of 2020 by law school deans and members of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). Washington and Lee Law Library collection that contribute context, insight, and proposals in the ongoing nationwide discussion of racial justice in America.
Scholarship Supporting the Fight Against Racism and Inequality
Taylor & Francis curated some of their relevant books and journals content in this area – much of it free to view or open access – and the editorial teams will continue to collaborate with scholars and experts to organize and publish an expanded reading list on this microsite.
Schomburg Center Black Liberation Reading List
by New York Public Library - Schomburg Center Staff
The 95 titles on the list represent books we and the public turn to regularly as activists, students, archivists, and curators, with a particular focus on books by Black authors and those whose papers we steward.
Social Justice Book List
NNSTOY - National Network of State Teachers of the Year & University of Phoenix 2017 series of booklists drawn from recommendations by State and National Teachers of the Year and Finalists for State Teacher of the Year.
Edited by Katherine Bassett, Brett Bigham, and Laurie Calvert
Contributors: Revathi Balakrisnan, Katherine Bassett, Brett Bigham, Nate Bowling, Chad Miller, Shanna Peeples, John Tierney, Monica Washington, Abdul Wright and more than 60 State and National Teachers of the Year and Finalists
Tech, Data, Surveillance Reading List
Compiled by Melonie Fullick; see twitter.com/qui_oui/status/1216018685367857153
Includes works like:
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code;
Terror, Insecurity and Liberty: Illiberal Practices of Liberal Regimes after 9/11;
The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement;
and dozens more.
Trans, Nonbinary and GNC Voices to Help you Celebrate Pride
by New York Public Library - Jill Rothstein, Chief Librarian, Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library
Whether you are looking for stories you can relate to, books to help you learn more about trans and gender non-conforming (TGNC) friends and family, diverse titles to broaden your understanding of our city and community, or just a fun, romantic, or educational read.
Women in Book History - The Bibliography
Indebted to Women Printers and Booksellers: A Checklist of Sources prepared by Laura S. Fuderer in 1999 and hosted by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. This list provided an early introduction to women and book history and added some essential sources to our list.
The bibliography is a database of secondary sources on women's writing and labor. Primarily our sources are in English, and non-English sources have a rough translation included. The database is not meant to be an exhaustive list of all book history sources that refer to women or discuss women, but instead a thorough snapshot of studies that take women as their primary subjects.
More on the mission and description...
The Zora Canon (on Medium as of January 2020) Archived on Internet Archive
The ZORA Canon, our list of the 100 greatest books ever written by African American women, is one of a kind, yet it exists within a rich cultural tradition. Celebrating more than 150 years of African American literature with 100 books written by African American women.
The ZORA editors assembled a blue-ribbon panel of authorities on African American women’s literature, asked them for their selections, then worked with them to vet and shape the final list. The result is a list of 100 masterworks, spanning 160 years of African American women’s literature, divided into sections from pre-emancipation to the present, including fiction and nonfiction, novels, plays, anthologies, and poetry collections and ranging in subject matter from the historical to the personal (and sometimes both at once). Taken together, the works don’t just make up a novel canon; they form a revealing mosaic of the Black American experience during the time period. They’re also just great reads. Finally, to complement the canon, ZORA editors and contributors compiled “The Next Generation,” a list of 10 up-and-coming African American women writers we believe are likely to make their own indelible mark.