Reading List
As part of this course, students will be expected to select two (2) books from those listed
below and complete book reflections. Students are welcome (and encouraged) to read all of them at your own leisure.
Book Reflection #1 Options
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria (Beverly Daniel Tatum)
- So You Want to Talk About Race? (Ijeoma Oluo)
- Sister Outsider (Audre Lorde)
- Eloquent Rage (Brittney Cooper)
- Thick: And Other Essays (Tressie McMillan Cottom)
- Racism Without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America (Eduardo Bonilla-Silva)
- The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students (Anthony Abraham Jack)
- Nice White Ladies (Jessie Daniels)
- America Goddam (Treva Lindsey)
- Viral Justice: How We Grow The World We Want (Ruha Benjamin)
Book Reflection #2 Options
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)
- Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (Ruha Benjamin)
- Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Safiya Noble)
- Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness (Simone Browne)
- Race, Sex, and Robots: How to Be Human in the Age of AI (Ayanna Howard)
- Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (Virginia Eubanks)
- Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech (Sara Wachter-Boettcher)
- Weapons of Math Destruction (Cathy O’Neil)
- Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Caroline Criado-Perez)
- Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to The Algebra Project (Bob Moses and Charles E. Cobb, Jr.)
- More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech (Meredith Broussard))
- Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World (Meredith Broussard)