Movies & Series

  • Fruitvale Station (2013)

  • Moonlight (2016)

  • Get Out (2017)

  • Do the Right Thing (1989)

  • Amistad (1997)

  • The Black Film Canon – 50 Greatest Movies by Black Directors

  • 13th (2016)

  • PBS – The Fillmore

  • Insecure (2016 -)

Books

Space/Race Reading List - This reading list was collectively produced by a group of architectural historians, art historians, architects, and urbanists in reaction to the August 2017 events in Charlottesville. We have assembled a series of readings on how race and racism are constructed with spatial means, and on how in turn space can be shaped by racism. The list is meant primarily as a teaching resource.

On the built industry...

  • A Country of Cities - Vishaan Chakrabarti (PAU)

  • Flat, Hot, and Crowded - Thomas Friedman

  • Collapse - Jarod Diamond

  • Triumph of the City - Edward Glazer

  • Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell

  • Capital in the 21st Century - Thomas Piketty•

  • Just Growth - Manuel Pastor

  • "Knowing Together is Growing Together"

  • Devil in the White City

  • Hardcore Zen

  • Loving Kindness – Sharon Salzberg

  • Made to Stick – Chip Heath & Dan Heath

  • Equity Growth and Community - Manuel Pastor

  • download for free at growingtogethermetro.org

  • The Jungle - Upton Sinclair

  • Soulless City - James Hillman

  • The New Urban Crisis - Richard Florida

  • Fighting Traffic - Peter Norton

  • Reason in a Dark Time – Dale Jamieson

  • Green Metropolis - David Owen

  • Gentrifier - John Joe Schlichtman

  • Maya Angelou's biography

  • Gateway to Unity - Mabel Taylor

  • Too High and Too Deep - David Williams

  • The Well-Tempered City - Jonathan Rose

  • Seattle and the Roots of Urban Sustainability:

  • Inventing Ecotopia - Jeffrey Sanders

  • The World Without Us - Mireille Juchau

  • The Last Black Unicorn - Tiffany Haddish

  • A Curious Mind - Ryan Grazier

  • Why We Don't Suck - Denis Leary

  • Soonish - Kelly Weinersmith

  • Community - Peter Block

  • Letters to a Young Activist - Todd Gitlin

  • White Fragility - Robin D'Angelo

  • The Culture Code - Daniel Coyle

  • Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life – Eric Klinenberg

  • Talking with Strangers - Danielle Allen

  • Dialogic O.D. – Gervase R. Bushe & Robert J. Marshak

  • Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Targeted Universalism

 

On humanity...

  • Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins

  • Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison

  • Citizen - Claudia Rankine

  • The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America - Richard Rothstein

  • Courageous Conversations - Glenn E. Singleton

  • Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower - Dr. Brittney Cooper

  • The Good Immigrant: 21 Writers Explore What It Means to Be Black, Asian, And Minority Ethnic in Britain Today - edited by Nikesh Shukla

  • The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America - edited by Nikesh Shukla

  • The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin

  • Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement - Angela Davis

  • Heavy: An American Memoir - Kiese Laymon

  • How to Be an Anti-Racist l - Ibram X. Kendi

  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

  • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown

  • Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson

  • Me and White Supremacy - Layla F. Saad

  • My Grandmother's Hands - Resmaa Menakem

  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander

  • The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century - Grace Lee Boggs

  • Raising Our Hands - Jenna Arnold'*

  • Redefining Realness - Janet Mock

  • Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde

  • So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo

  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You - Ibram X. Kendi + Jason Reynolds

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

  • They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of Black Lives Matter - Wesley Lowery

  • This Book is Anti-Racist - Ibram X. Kendi

  • This Bridge Called My Back - Cherrie Moraga

  • Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice - Paul

  • The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson

  • When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir -Patrisse Khan-Cullors + Asha Bandele

  • White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo, PhD*

  • Why Are All of the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? - Beverly Daniel Tatum

  • Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge­