Anti-Racism Reading Guide

Compiled by Miguel Fernandez, Middlebury's Chief Diversity Officer and Professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies, this list of resources was created to support the work of our non-Black students, staff, and faculty in learning to better understand anti-Black racism, how it shows up in our communities, and how to work to combat it. Resources include an extensive list of readings, as well as suggestions for specific ways to act against racism in our community, our state, and our daily lives.

Based on an earlier list, this list for the Chicago Public Library is revised and expanded. "This anti-racist syllabus is for people realizing they were never taught how to be anti-racist. How to treat all the racial groups as equals. How to look at the racial inequity all around and look for the racist policies producing it, and the racist ideas veiling it. This list is for people beginning their anti-racist journey .."

"There's no shortage of excellent antiracist reading lists that have circulated in recent days as the nation has been convulsed by mass demonstrations and protests against police brutality following the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis. We are going to add our own to the mix, with recommendations by PW editors for recent nonfiction books about some of the many issues at play, whether that's police brutality, institutional racism, activism, or what it's like to be black in America today."

"In the wake of violence against Black Americans and in a moment of national reckoning, the HKS Library has pulled together a reading list that is inspired and largely informed by Resources and Reading on Racial Justice, Racial Equity, and Anti-Racism published by the Institutional Anti-Racism and Accountability Project (IARA) at the Shorenstein Center and in partnership with the HKS Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging."