Reading List
As part of this course, students will be expected to select one(1) book from those listed
below and complete a book reflection. Students are welcome (and encouraged) to read all of them eventually.
- 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)
- 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)
- Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter (Charlton D. McIlwain)
- Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to The Algebra Project (Bob Moses and Charles E. Cobb, Jr.)