Recommended Reading

The GWI Faculty has curated a list of books they recommend:  

• Asian American Histories of the United States by Catherine Ceniza Choy
• Between the world and me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Black Stats by Monique W. Morris  
• Can We Talk About Race? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
• Color Blind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity by Tim Wise
• For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood… and the Rest of y’all Too by Christopher Emdin
• Half + Half – Writers on Growing Up Biracial + Bicultural edited by Claudine Chiawei O’Hearn
• How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibrahim Kendi 
• Hyper Education: Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough by Pawan Dhingra
  
• I’m Still Here Black Dignity In A World Made For Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown 
• Caste by Isabel Wilkerson 
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander  
• Nickel and Dimed – On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenriech
  
• The Privileged Poor by Anthony Abraham 
• Rethinking College Admissions: Research-Based Practice and Policy by OiYan A. Poon and Michael N. Bastedo
  
• The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admission by William Bowen and Derek Bok
• The Teacher Wars by Dana Goldstein 
• We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future by Deepa Iyer
  
• We Want to Do More than Survive by Bettina Love 
• Whistling Vivaldi And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us by Claude M. Steele 
• Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum