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Books and Articles
Books
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
by Richard Rothstein
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
by Mehrsa Baradaran
Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams
by Stefanie K. Johnson
How To Be An Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Erasing Institutional Bias: How to Create Systemic Change for Organizational Inclusion
by Tiffany Jana
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
by Ian Haney Lopez
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
And Other Conversations About Race
by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
So You Want To Talk About Race
by Ijeoma Oluo
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Proper Together
by Heather McGhee
Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities
by Andre M. Perry
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
by Shomari Wills
Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era
by Alison Rose Jefferson
Articles
Newsday Long Island Real Estate Agent Investigation
Jacksonville couple says they faced discrimination in home appraisal because of wife’s race
Being Black lowers the value of my home: The legacy of redlining
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