The topics approached in this film are broad and entrenched into many facets of American Society. Should you wish to ‘delve even deeper’ we’ve added these titles across a variety of topics.

brown, adrienne maree. We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Chico, California: AK Press 2020

Carpio, Glenda.Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of SlaveryOxford, England: Oxford University Press.2008.

Kreiser, Lawrence A and Randal Allred. The Civil War in Popular Culture: Memory And Meaning. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2014.

Nieman, Susan. Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil. New York, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Voices of the movement

Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time,New York, New York: Penguin Classics, 2007

Davis, Angela Y. Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement. Chicago, Illinois: Haymarket Books 2016.

Hale, Jon. Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. New York, New York: Columbia University Press: 2016.

Horton, James Oliver, and Louis E. Horton,Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory, Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008

Lorde, Audre, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, New York, New York: Penguin Classics, 2020.

Moody, Ann. Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural SouthNew York, New York: (Delta) Penguin Random House, 2004.

Payne, Charles M. I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition of the Freedom Struggle, Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2007.

Peniel E. Joseph. The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights - Black Power Era. New York, New York: Routledge, 2006.

Shakur, Assata, Assata: An Autobiography.Chico, California: AK PRess, 1998.

The Lost Cause & Civil War History

McCurry, Stephanie. Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Domby, Adam H. The False Cause: Fraud, fabrication and while supremacy in confederate memory.Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2020.

Lee, Robert W. A Sin By Any Other Name. New York, New York: Convergent Books, 2019.

Seidule, Ty. Robert E. Lee and Me. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2020.

Towns, Stuart W. Enduring Legacy: Rhetoric and Ritual of the Lost Cause.Tuscaloosa, Alabama, University of Alabama Press, 2012.

Books on Truth and Reconciliation

Edkins, Jenny,Trauma and the Memory of Politics, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Magarell, Lisa and Joya Wesley.Learning from Greensboro: Truth and Reconciliation in the United States.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.

Minow, Martha.Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence.New York, New York: Beacon Press. 1999.

Books About Education, Whiteness, Race & Racism

Alcoff, Linda Martin. The Future of Whiteness,Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2015

Anderson, Carol. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. New York, New York: Bloomsbury Reprint, 2017.

Desmond, Matthew; Emirbayer, Mustafa. Racial Domination, Racial Progress: The Sociology of Race in America. New York, New York. McGraw-Hill Education, 2009.

Fanon, F. The wretched of the earth(C. Farrington, Trans.). New York, New York: Grove Press,1963.

Fanon, F. Toward the African revolution: Political essays.(H. M. Chevalier, Trans.). New York, New York: Grove Press,1967.

Freire, P. Pedagogy of the oppressed.Freiburg im Bresgau, Germany: Herder and Herder, 1972/2001.

Freire, P. Pedagogy of freedom: Ethics, democracy, and civic courage. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,1998

Fredrickson, George M. Racism: A Short History, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2015.

Hartman, S. V. Scenes of subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America.Oxford University Press, 1997.

hooks, b. Teaching to transgress: Education as the practice of freedom. Oxfordshire, England: Routledge, 1994.

hooks, b. Feminist theory: From margin to center. Boston, Massachusetts: South End Press 2000.

hooks, b. Teaching community: A pedagogy of hope.Oxford, England: Routledge, 2003.

Leonardo, Z. Race, whiteness, and education, Oxford, England: Routledge, 2009.

Love, Bettina, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom, New York, New York: Beacon Press, 2019.

Nelson, L. P. & Harold, C. N. (Eds.). The Legacy of Race and Inequality. Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia Press, 2017.

Sharpe, C. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2016.

Sokol, J. There Goes my Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975, New York, New York: Vintage, 2006.

Thandeka, Learning to Be White: Money, Race and God in America, New York, New York: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2000.

Books about the History of American Education & Schools

Black Protest Thought and Education. (2005). By: William Watkins.

The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. (1988). By: James D. Anderson

Race, Schools, and Hope: African Americans and School Choice after Brown. (2008). By: Lisa Stulberg.

The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education. (1974). By: David B. Tyack

From Racial Liberalism to Racial Literacy: Brown v. Board of Education and the interest-divergence dilemma. (2004). By: Guinier, L. (2004). The Journal of American History, 91(1), 92-118.

Gentrification and Schools: The Process of Integration When Whites Reverse Flight (2012). By: Jennifer Burns Stillman

The History and Political Goals of Public Schooling. (2017). By: Joel Spring

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Whitney Plantation website

EJI

EJI Legacy Museum

Malcolm Suber article