Recommended reading

Indigenous Perspectives


The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee   David Treuer

Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto   Vine DeLoria, Jr.  1988    (296 pages)

An Indigenous People's History of the United States   Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz   2015   (312 pages)

Our Racialized History

The White Racial Frame (3rd edition)   2020   (293 pages)  Joe R. Feagin

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents  2020   (476 pages)   Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns  2011  ( 640 pages)   Isabel Wilkerson

How the South Won the Civil War  2020   (272 pages)   Heather Cox Richardson

The Criminalization of Blackness

Just Mercy   2014   (368 pages) Bryan Stevenson

The New Jim Crow   2010   ((312 pages)   Michelle Alexander

Enough is Enough!   MPD150   2017   (35 pages)   (available free from ASDIC)

Confronting Internalized Racism

How to Be an Antiracist   2019   (320 pages)  Ibram X. Kendi

White Fragility   2018   (192 pages)   Robin DiAngelo

Dying of Whiteness   2019   (341 pages)   Johnathan A. Metzel

Racing to Justice   2015   (336 pages)   john a. powell

The Colonizer and the Colonized   1965   ((208 pages)   Albert Memmi

Taking it to the Streets: Readings for Activists

Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements    2019   (192 pages)   Charlene Carruthers

My Grandmother's Hands   2017   (309 pages)   Resmaa Menakem

We Keep Us Safe   2020   (197 pages)   Zach Norris

Thanks to Maria McNamara (she/her), a Board Member and longtime facilitator for ASDIC, for contributing these titles.

Thanks to Maria McNamara (she/her), a Board Member and longtime facilitator for ASDIC, for contributing these titles.