CO UUs for Racial Justice

Colorado UUs for Racial Justice

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Title	Author	Audience	Notes
A Field Guide to White Supremacy	Kathleen Belew ed. & Ramon A Gutierrez	intermediate	examines white supremacy out in society
A Guide to Gender: The Social Justice Advocate’s Handbook	Sam Killermann	beginner	how to be respectful of gender presentation and orientation
A World Without White People: Dismantling Sexism, Homophobia, and White Supremacy	Rai Lao	intermediate	how to understand the intersections of these issues from an Asian perspective
American Hate: Survivors Speak Out	Arjun Singh Sethi ed.	intermediate	first hand accounts of hate crimes
An African American and Latinx History of the United States	Paul Ortiz	intermediate	adding perspectives to our understanding of US history
An Indigenous People’s History of the United States	Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz	intermediate	adding perspectives to our understanding of US history
Are Prisons Obsolete?	Angela Y Davis	intermediate	examination of the prison industrial complex
Avoiding Racial Equity Detours	Paul Gorski	intermediate (teachers)	equity in education
Between the World and Me	Ta-Nehisi Coates	intermediate	explaining inequities
Black Pioneers in a White Denomination	Mark D. Morrison Reed	intermediate (clergy)	explores the history of Black people in religion
Bringing Race to the Table	Crystal Blanton	intermediate (pagan)	Older resource, racism in the pagan community
Can We Talk About Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation	Beverly Tatum	intermediate (teachers)	older resource
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students	Zaretta Hammond	intermediate (teachers)	older resource
Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation	Dalia Kinsey	beginner	addresses fatphobia, racism in beauty standards
Dismantling Racism, The Continuing Challenge to White America	Joseph R. Barndt	beginner	older resource
Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy	Rachel Ricketts	beginner (pagan friendly)	addresses racial justice from a comprehensive, intersectional, and spirit-based perspective, interfaith
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia	Sabrina Strings	intermediate	addresses fatphobia, racism in beauty standards
Feed the Resistance: Recipes +Ideas for Getting Involved	Julia Turshen	beginner	addresses nurturing the community
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019	Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain	intermediate	Black accounts of US history
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement	Angela Y. Davis	advanced	nuanced discussion of race, colonialization and how they intersect
Handbook for a Post Roe America	Robin Marty	beginner	discusses bodily autonomy, how we got here and how to get out
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America	Clint Smith	intermediate	addresses slavery, racism, white supremacy history
How to be An Anti Racist	Ibram X. Kendi	beginner	addresses racism, white supremacy
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide	Crystal Marie Fleming	beginner	addresses systematic racism
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective	Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor	intermediate	addresses history of radical Black feminists and its impact on the struggles of today
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body	Roxanne Gay	intermediate	addresses her experience with body image, food, and racism
Indigenous Community: Rekindling the Teachings of the Seventh Fire	George A. Cajete	intermediate	addresses revitalizing community among indigenous people
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption	Bryan Stevenson	beginner	addresses inequities in the justice system
Laziness Does Not Exist	Devon Price	beginner	addresses neurodiversity and unrealistic expectations of mental health
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World and Become a Good Ancestor	Layla F. Saad	beginner
Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World	Layla F. Saad	beginner
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America	Ijeoma Oluo	intermediate
Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out	Ruth King	beginner
Multiplication Is for White People”: Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children	Lisa Delpit	intermediate (teachers)	addresses racial inequity in education for parents and teachers
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies	Resmaa Menakem	intermediate	addresses embodiment of racial damage/white supremacy damage
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond	Marc Lamont Hill	intermediate	addresses police violence, environmental violence, and white supremacy in governmental systems
Overcoming our racism: The journey to liberation	Derald Wing Sue	beginner	addresses internalized racism, and privilege, with exercises and activities
Pedagogy of the Oppressed	Paulo Freire	advanced	very old resource addresses white supremacy culture worldwide
Power, privilege, and difference	Allan G. Johnson	intermediate	older resource, examines systems of privilege and difference
Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation	Jonathan Lear	advanced	older resource, examines how to respond to cultural collapse
Readings for diversity and social justice 4th addition	Maurianne Adams, Warren J. Blumenfeld, D. Chase Catalano, Keri Dejong, Heather Hackman, Larissa E. Hopkins, Barbara Love, Madeline L. Peters, Davey Shlasko, Ximena Zuniga	intermediate	intersectional resource that covers racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, ableism, youth and elder oppression(ageism)
Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People	Alice Wong	beginner	addresses disability justice and ableism and how it intersects with race, sex, class
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches	Audre Lorde	beginner	older resource, discusses sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class
Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism	Seyward Darby	intermediate	expose of white women in white nationalist spaces, shows how white women normalize racist extremism
So You Want to Talk About Race	Ijeoma Oluo	beginner	addresses police brutality, cultural appropriation and model minority myth
SOUL WORK, Anti-Racist Theologies in Dialogue	UUA, Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley, Nancy Palmer Jones	intermediate (clergy)
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America	Ibram X. Kendi	intermediate	history of systematic racism in America
Systemic racism: A theory of oppression	Joe R. Feagin	intermediate	explains and examines systematic racism
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom	bell hooks	intermediate	older resource, examines new ways to educate
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story	Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times, Caitlan Roper, Ilena Silverman, Jake Silverstein	beginner	examines US history through the lens of systematic racism and white supremacy
The Anti-Racist Cookbook, A Recipe Guide for Conversations About Race That Goes Beyond Covered Dishes and “Kum-Bah-Ya”	Robin Parker, Pamela Smith Chambers	beginner	explain how to create dialogue groups to discuss what to do and how to do it.
The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love	Sonya Renee Taylor	beginner	addresses fatphobia, western beauty standards, how to heal
The Body Keeps Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma	Bessel Van Der Kolk	intermediate	discusses how traumas sit in our bodies
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America	Richard Rothstein	intermediate	discusses the history of how white supremacy defined where people lived/live
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to his White Mother	James McBride	intermediate	a memoir that discusses the nuance of race
The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children	Gloria Ladson-Billings	intermediate (teachers)	discusses cultural relevant teaching
The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness	Rhonda V. Magee, Jon Kabat-Zinn	beginner	discusses how mindfulness practice can help with white awkwardness and guilt
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness	Michelle Alexander	intermediate	examines the white supremacist underpinnings of our criminal justice system
The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism	Katherine Stewart	intermediate	examines the Religious Right, their values and their goals
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls	Mona Eltahawy	beginner	discusses dismantling white supremacist patriarchial culture
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together	Heather McGhee	beginner	discusses what white supremacy culture costs everyone
They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement	Wesley Lowery	intermediate	examines police violence through interviews with survivors
Uprooting Racism, How White People Can Work For Racial Justice	Paul Kivel	beginner	explains framework to understand institutional racism
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World	Rutger Bregman	advanced	discusses capitalism and the elimination of poverty through a universal basic income
Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race	Debby Irving	beginner	discusses her evolution of understanding of race
We Do This Until They Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice	Mariame Kaba	intermediate	discusses prison abolition and social transformation
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom	Bettina Love	intermediate	discusses how to dismantle white supremacy in the classroom
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk about Fat	Aubrey Gordon	intermediate	discusses fatphobia as a social justice issue
When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matters Memoir	Patrisse Cullors, asha bandele, Angela Davis	beginner	discusses personal history and history of Black Lives Matter
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism	Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson	beginner	discusses privilege, white tears, racism
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide	Carol Anderson	intermediate	discusses historical white supremacy
White Tears, Black Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color	Ruby Hamad	intermediate	discusses the white supremacy embedded in white feminism
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race	Beverly Daniel Tatum	intermediate (teachers)	discusses how racial identity is shaped
Writing the Other: A Practical Approach	Nisi Shawl, Cynthia Ward	intermediate (writers)	discusses how to examine biases in how you portray characters from other cultures
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience	Tarana Burke, Brene Brown	intermediate	recognize and process the trauma of white supremacy

Title	Author	Genre	Notes
American War	Omar El Akkad	Science Fiction	post-apocalyptic
The Antagonists	Burgandi Rakoska	Science Fiction, YA	superhero, disability
Before She Sleeps	Bina Shah	Science Fiction	gender plague, intimacy
The Black God’s Drums	P. Djeli Clark	Fantasy	alternate universe New Orleans
Black Leopard, Red Wolf	Marlon James	Fantasy	epic fantasy rooted in African worldview
Black Sun	Rebecca Roanhorse	Fantasy	epic fantasy rooted in pre Columbian worldview
The Black Tide of Heaven	Neon Yang	Fantasy	epic fantasy rooted in Asian worldview, LGBTQ+ rep
Chameleon Moon	RoAnna Sylver	Science Fiction, YA	neurodiversity, trauma
Children of Blood and Bone	Tomi Adeyemi	Fantasy	epic fantasy rooted in African worldview
Children of Vengeance and Virtue	Tomi Adeyemi	Fantasy	epic fantasy rooted in African worldview
The City of Brass	S. A. Chakraborty	Fantasy	epic fantasy rooted in pre-Islamic and Islamic worldview
Coyote Rage	Owl Goingback	Horror	story rooted in indigenous worldview
Crota	Owl Goingback	Horror	story rooted in indigenous worldview
Deathless Divide	Justina Ireland	Alternate History, YA	alternate American history of Civil War rooted in Black experience
The Deep	Alma Katsu	Horror	alternate history Titanic
The Devourers	Indra Das	Horror	story rooted in Indian worldview, LGBTQ+ rep
Dread Nation	Justina Ireland	Alternate History, YA	alternate American history of Civil War rooted in Black experience
Everfair	Nisi Shawl	Alternate History	alternate African history, LGBTQ+ rep
Fevered Star	Rebecca Roanhorse	Fantasy	epic fantasy rooted in pre Columbian worldview
The Grace of Kings	Ken Liu	Fantasy	epic fantasy rooted in Chinese folklore
The Gurka and the Lord of Tuesday	Saad Z Hossain	Fantasy	story rooted in pre-Islamic worldview
The Haunting of Tram Car 015	P. Djeli Clark	Alternate History	story rooted in pre-Islamic and Islamic worldview
How Long Until Black Future Month?	N. K. Jemisin	Anthology	stories rooted in a wide range of African diaspora tales
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms	N. K. Jemisin	Fantasy	LGBTQ+ rep
The Kingdom of Copper	S. A. Chakraborty	Fantasy	epic fantasy rooted in pre-Islamic and Islamic worldview
The Last Girl Scout	Natalie Ironside	Horror	LGBTQ+ rep
Lovecraft Country	Matt Ruff	Horror	rooted in racism in the US
Mexican Gothic	Silvia Moreno-Garcia	Gothic Horror	rooted in racism in US and Mexico
My Heart is a Chainsaw	Stephen Graham Jones	Horror	rooted in racism and gentrification of indigenous lands
Night of the Mannequins	Stephen Graham Jones	Horror	rooted in indigenous worldview
Nothing But Blackened Teeth	Cassandra Khaw	Horror	rooted in Japanese and internet folklore
The Only Good Indians	Stephen Graham Jones	Horror	rooted in indigenous worldview
The Red Threads of Fortune	Neon Yang	Fantasy	epic fantasy rooted in Asian worldview, LGBTQ+ rep
The Refrigerator Monologues	Cat Valente	Fantasy	explores the concept of ‘fridging’ in a variety of stories
Red Widow	Alma Katsu	Thriller	story of women in intelligence services
The Hunger	Alma Katsu	Horror	The Donner Party
Fervor	Alma Katsu	Horror	Japanese internment
Resistance Reborn	Rebecca Roanhorse	Science Fiction, Star Wars	story in Star Wars universe
Ring Shout	P. Djeli Clark	Alternate History, Horror,	rooted in Black experience, racism
Rosewater	Tade Thompson	Science Fiction	rooted in Nigerian worldview
Skin Folk	Nalo Hopkinson	Short story collection	rooted in West Indian and African worldview
Sorrowland	River Solomon	Science Fiction	rooted in African worldview
Space Opera	Cat Valente	Science Fiction	LGBTQ+ rep
Straight	Chuck Tingle	Horror	LGBTQ+ rep
They Don’t Make Plus Size Space Suits	Ali Thompson	Short story collection	addresses fatophobia
The Three Body Problem	Cixin Liu	Science Fiction	rooted in Chinese worldview
Trail of Lightning	Rebecca Roanhorse	Dark Fantasy	rooted in Navajo worldview
Under the Pendulum Sun	Jeannette Ng	Fantasy
Vermillion	Molly Tanzer	Alternate History, Horror, Dark Fantasy	LGBTQ+ rep
Wake of Vultures	Lila Bowen	Dark Fantasy, Horror
The Worm and His Kings	Hailey Piper	Horror	LGBTQ+rep
The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction	Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki ed.	Short story collection	rooted in various African worldviews
The Worth Saga	Courtney Milan	Romance
The Cyclone Series	Courtney Milan	Romance
The Brothers Sinister Series	Courtney Milan	Romance
The Turner Series	Courtney Milan	Romance

bea.six18	Bea.six18	Trans positive
bluebeardthedad	Bluebeard	Nonbinary, pagan
brandyglows	Brandy Walker LMSW	Mental health
bwb.artist	Bruce W. Brackett	LGBTQ+ and addiction recovery
crutches_and_spice	Imani Babian	Black and disabled
drunkcrier	Jon Urquhart	ASL and LGBTQ+
fatposipua	FatPosPua	Indigenous and fat positive
hostile_oglala696	Wild_Ogalala	Indigenous
kissyduere	Kissy Duere	Black and trans positive
kweenwerk	Kween werK	Black and outdoors
levertthebassman	Levert Blount	Black and history
mahealanirowland	Mahealani Rowland	Indigenous
mx.deran	Ty Deran	Trans positive
navabroisss	isaac madson	Indigenous
north_omaha_cat_lady	Rosie gettinmyfatbitchon	Anti-racist, pagan, political
notoriouscree	James Jones	Indigenous
oldgays	The Old Gays	LGBTQ+
reneedillard	Renee Dillard	Indigenous
rynnstar	Rynn	Black and fat positive
starr_mcqueen	Starr Mcqueen	Black and trans positive
thehistorywizard	The History Wizard	Anti-racist, historical, political
thezaragreen	Zara Green	Black
thisbliss	Body Liberator	Black and fat positive
traecrowder	Trae Crowder	Anti-racist, classism, comedy
yourkoreandad	Nick Cho	Asian wholesome

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