MnM Resources
Multiracial and Multicultural Resources
Racism and Anti-Racism: Analysis and Organizing
Alinsky, Saul. Reveille for Radicals. New York: Vintage Books, 1989.
Alinsky, Saul. Rules for Radicals; A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals. New York: Vintage Books, 1989.
Allen, Robert. Reluctant Reformers: Racism and Social Reform Movements in the United States. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1983.
America’s Original Sin: A Study Guide on White Racism. Washington, DC: Sojourners Resource Center, 1992 Revised Edition
Barndt, Joseph. Dismantling Racism: The Continuing Challenge to White America. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1991.
Bobo, Kimberley A., et al. Organizing for Social Change: A Manual for Activists in the 1990s. Washington: Seven Locks Press, 1991.
Bell, Derrick. Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. New York: Basic Books, 1992.
Bell, Derrick. Race, Racism, and American Law. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.
Carr, Leslie G. “Color-blind” Racism. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1997.
Chisom, Ronald and Michael Washington. Undoing Racism: A Philosophy of International Social Change. The People’s Institute Press, 1997.
Derman-Sparks, Louise. Anti-bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children.
Derman-Sparks, Louise and Carol Brunson Phillips. Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism. New York: Teachers College Press, 1997.
Eberhardt, Jennifer and Susan T. Fiske, ed. Confronting Racism: The Problem and the Response. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1998.
Feagin, Joe R. and Hernán Vera. White Racism: the Basics. New York: Routledge, 1995.
Fredrickson, George. The Arrogance of Race. Wesleyan University Press, 1988
Gordon, Paul. White Law: Racism in the Police, Courts, and Prisons. London: Pluto Press, 1983.
Hacker, Andrew. Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal. New York:
Scribner’s, 1992.
Horsman, Reginald. Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-
Saxonism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.
Jordan, Winthrop D. The White Man’s Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States. New York, Oxford University Press, 1974.
Katz, Judith H. White Awareness: Handbook for Anti-Racism Training. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978.
Berger, Maurice. White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1999.
Bowser, Benjamin P. and Raymont G. Hunt, eds. Impacts of Racism on White Americans.
Newbury Park, California: Sage Publications, 1996.
Clark, Christine and James O’Donnell, eds. Becoming and Unbecoming White: Owning and Disowning a Racial Identity. Westport: Bergin and Garvey, 1999.
Delgado, Richard and Jean Stefancic. Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirror. Temple, 1997.
Frankenberg, Ruth. White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness. University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
Ignatiev, Noel. How the Irish Became White. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Haney-Lopez, Ian F. White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race. New York University Press, 1996.
Hill, Mike. Whiteness: A Critical Reader. New York University Press, 1997.
Segrest, Mab. Memoir of a Race Traitor. Boston: South End Press, 1994.
Lipsitz, George. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics. Temple, 1998.
Roediger, David. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. London: Verson, 1991.
Biblical and Theological Titles
Beals, Ivan A. Our Racist Legacy: Will the Church Resolve the Conflict. Notre Dame: Cross Cultural Publications, 1997.
Cone, James. Black Theology and Black Power. New York: Seabury, 1969.
Matsuoka, Fumitaka. The Color of Faith. Cleveland: United Church Press, 1998.
McKenzie, Steven L. All God’s Children: A Biblical Critique of Racism. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox, 1997.
Stroupe, Nibs and Inez Fleming. While We Run This Race: Confronting the Power of Racism in a Southern Church. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1995.
Tinker, George E. Missionary Conquest: the Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.
Wink, Walter. Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination. Minneapolis: fortress, 1992.
People of Color History: Reality and Resistance
Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
“Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965.” (Video series)
Loewen, James. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. New York: Touchstone, 1996.
Takaki, Ronald. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.
African & African American
Franklin, John Hope. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
Harding, Vincent. There is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America. New York: Vintage, 1983.
Washington, James M. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Harper Collins, 1986.
X, Malcolm. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York: Grove Press, 1965.
Latino/a
Acuña, Rodolfo. Occupied America: A History of Chicanos. New York: Harper, 1988.
Native American (American Indian and Alaska Native
Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.
Deloria, Vine. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.
Jaimes, M. Annette, ed. The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization and Resistance. Boston: South End Press, 1992.
Smith, Paul Chaat and Robert Allen Warrior. Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee. New York: The New Press, 1996.
Asian American and Pacific Islander
Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. Boston: Little, Brown, 1998.
Whiteness Studies
Allen, Theodore W. The Invention of the White Race: Racial Oppression and Social Control, Volume 1. London: Verso, 1994.
Allen, Theodore W. The Invention of the White Race: The Origins of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America. Volume 2. London: Verso, 1994.
Kivel, Paul. Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice.
Knowles, Louis L. and Kenneth Prewitt. Institutional Racism in America. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969.
Kovel, Joel. White Racism: A Psychohistory. New York: Pantheon, 1970.
Kretzmann, John P. Building Communities From the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets. Chicago: ACTA Publications, 1993.
Matthias, Dody S. Working for Life: Dismantling Racism. Philadelphia: Huperetai, 1986.
Omi, Michael and Howard Winant. Racial Formation in the United States from the 1960s to the 1980s. New York: Routledge, 1986.
Rothenberg, Paula. Racism and Sexism: An Integrated Study. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988.
Schwartz, Barry N. and Robert Disch, ed. White Racism : Its History, Pathology, and Practice.
Shearer, Jody M. Enter the River: Healing Steps from White Privilege Toward Racial Reconciliation.
Smedley, Audrey. Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview. Boulder: Westview Press, 1999.
Tatum, Beverly. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and other conversations about race. New York: Basic Books, 1997.
Terry, Robert. For Whites Only. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988.
Wellman, David T. Portraits of White Racism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
West, Cornel. Race Matters. Beacon Press,1993.
Wilson, Carter. Racism: From Slavery to Advanced Capitalism
Wright, W.D. Racism Matters. Westport: Praeger, 1998.
Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present. New York: Harper, 1980.