Race & Ethnicity Resources

Bibliotherapy

Self-Help

• The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health by Rheeda Walker

• Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body & Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters

• The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women by Marita Golden

• The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

• You Are More Than Magic: The Black & Brown Girls’ Guide to Finding Your Voice by Minda Harts

• Breathe: A Guided Healing Journal for Black Men by Brennan Allan Steele

• The Pain We Carry by Natalie Y. Gutiérrez, LMFT

• My Grandmother’s Hands by Rasmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP

• Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief by Michelle Cassandra Johnson

• We Heal Together by Michelle Cassandra Johnson

• Black Women Taught Us by Jenn M. Jackson

• Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought edited by Beverly Guy-Sheftall

• Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace by Minda Harts

• How to Ask About Inclusion at an Employer by Andrew Seaman at LinkedIn News

Memoirs

• Unbound by Tarana Burke

• Migrations of the Heart by Marita Golden

• Miseducated by Brandon P. Fleming

• Cry Like a Man by Jason Wilson

• Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

• We Are Bridges by Cassandra Lane

• Bone Black by bell hooks

• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde (Black & lesbian, poetry & speeches)

• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa

• Head Off & Split: Poems by Nikky Finney (Black experience)

• All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson (LGBTQIA+ & Black Male)

• You Got Anything Stronger? By Gabrielle Union

• Feeding the Soul by Tabitha Brown

• More than Enough by Elaine Welteroth (ethnic identity & feminist themes)

• My Broken Language by Quiara Alegría Hudes (Hispanic)

• Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jensen (Indigenous)

• A Mind Spread Out On The Ground by Alicia Elliott (Indigenous & Bicultural)

• What We Carry by Mya Shanbhag Lang (Indian Immigrant)

• They Called Us Exceptional by Prachi Gupta (Indian American & women)

• A Dream Called Home by Reyna Grande (Mexican Immigrant)

• All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung (Adoption & Asian American)

• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (Korean American, bicultural, grief)

• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

• Speak, Okinawa by Elizabeth Miki Brina (bicultural identity)

• Ma and Me by Putsata Reang (Cambodian refugee & queer)

• Not Here by Hieu Minh (Vietnamese-American poetry)

Novels

• The Wide Circumference of Love by Marita Golden (Black Experience, Family, & Alzheimer’s)

• Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes (Black Experience & Police Brutality)

• Open Water by Caleb Zumah Nelson (Black Experience)

• Beloved by Toni Morrison (slavery & Black Experience)

• Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes (good for YA)

• There There by Tommy Orange (Indigenous)

• We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride & Jo Piazza

• What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons (Bicultural)

• Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? By Lizzie Damilola Blackburn (Bicultural & Feminist)

• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Vietnamese-American, immigrant, & LGBTQ themes)

• Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (Chinese-American, immigrant, & grief)

• What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons (Bicultural)

• Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? By Lizzie Damilola Blackburn (Bicultural & Feminist)

Understanding for Others

• Belonging: The Key to Transforming and Maintaining Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality at Work by Kathryn Jacob, Sue Unerman, and Mark Edwards

• Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine

• Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Clayudia Rankine

• A Space for Us: A Guide for Leading Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Affinity Groups by Michelle Cassandra Johnson

• Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis

• The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones

In the Workplace

• Inclusion Revolution: Dismantling Racial Inequity in the Workplace by Daisy Auger-Dominguez

• What Works by Iris Bohnet

• Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work by Ruchika Tulshya