African American History and then some

The following is a portion of the available resources to learn more about African American History. These resources are an invitation for each of us at Annapolis Friends Meeting to deepen our understanding and expand our learning as a critical step toward ultimately realizing the American Dream for all of its citizens via Racial Healing. 

These resources are offered to help us explore:

  • The blueprint of our joint discontent;
  • Historical framing; 
  • Reflecting, respecting, and removing the veil;
  • Following the money and the science; 
  • Reframing our national identity…or not; 
  • Safely facing deep-seated emotional demons and traumas.

Peace Prayer of Saint Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.

Resources on Antiracism

1) List of resources modified from June 17, 2020 Abington Friends document 

  • Articles for a basic understanding of Critical Race Theory:  

2) Additional resources

The 1619 Project, by Nikole Hannah-Jones. https://pulitzercenter.org/sites/default/files/full_issue_of_the_1619_project.pdf

Chapters 6 & 7 IF the entire book is not available to you  

A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansbury (format, book & film)

The Sum of Us, by Heather McGhee

Fit for Freedom Not for Friendship, by Donna McDaniel & Vanessa Julye

Five Days, by Wes Moore

White Privilege, by Robin Di Angelo      

Anything about Sarah Mapps Douglas and her life as a Quaker 

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent, Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson

The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin

Women, Race, and Class, by Angela Davis

So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo 

The Choice – The Issue of Black Survival in America, by Samuel Yette 

Kindred, by Octavia Butler

How to be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide, by Crystal Fleming 

Emergent Strategy, by Adrienne Maree Brown

Black Feminist Thought, by Patricia Hill Collins

Everyone’s Son, by Thrity Umriga

Becoming, by Michelle Obama 

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Finding Me. by Viola Davis (Marcia’s 1/29/23 recommendation)

The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander

Citizen, by Claudia Rankine

Sister Outsider, by Audre Lorde

Emergent Strategy, by Adrienne Maree Brown

Black Feminist Thought, by Patricia Hill Collins

Everyone’s Son, by Trinity Umrigar

Biased, by Jennifer Eberhardt

Everything Inside, by Edwidge Danticat

Black Is the Body, by Emily Bernard

White Rage, by Carol Anderson, Ph.D. 

Why Are All the Black Kids Siting Together in The Cafeteria? by Beverly D Tatum, Ph, D. 

My Grandmother’s Hands, by Resmaa Menakem

A Black Women’s History of the U.S., by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross

Well Read Black Girl, by Glory Edim

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula Giddings (about Ida B. Wells)

Florynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical, by Sherie M Randolph

Hillbilly Elegy, by JD Vance (offered as a demographic likeness to a counter stratified outcome)

What the Eyes Can’t See, by Mona Hanna Attisha

The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison

When They Call You a Terrorist – A Black Lives Matter Memoir, by Patrisse Khan-Cullors

Homecoming, by Yaa Gyasi

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, by Monique Morris https://pushoutfilm.com/watchparty 

White Lies, Ijeoma Oluo On Privilege, Power, And Race. https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/516/white-lies  

46 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2018. https://electricliterature.com/46-books-by-women-of-color-to-read-in-2018-70a0bf5bf4f2