Regional Alliance for Truth and Racial Reconciliation

Regional Alliance

A reading list of books:

Civil Rights Movement Bibliography, divided into sub-areas of interest

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Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America

Author: Dalton Conley
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520216733

From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans

Author: John Hope Franklin
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0375406719

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Author: Paulo Freire
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
ISBN: 0826412769

The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement (Human Tradition in America)

Author: Susan M. Glisson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 0742544095

Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native American Women's Writings of North America

Edited by: Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird
Publisher: W.W. Norton and Company
ISBN: 0393318281

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

Author: bell hooks
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415908086

On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Sherrilyn A. Ifill
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807009873

The White Man's Burden:Historical Origins of Racism in the United States

Author: Winthrop Jordan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195017439

Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice

Author: Paul Kivel
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 0865714592

I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle

Author: Charles M. Payne
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520207068

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America

Author: Ronald Takaki
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 0316831115

Race Matters

Author: Cornel West
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679749861

Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism

Author: Cornel West
Publisher: The Penguin Press HC
ISBN: 1594200297

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