Resources
The Racial Equity Roundtable has curated a list of resources from partners across the country if you are interested in developing your own analysis about race, racism and racial equity. We also encourage you to download and read the report that was released by the Roundtable in 2016 titled The Racial Equity Dividend: Buffalo’s Great Opportunity.
Books
If you would like to purchase any of the books listed, consider buying from a local business owned by a person of color such as Zawadi Books.
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Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Dog Whistle Politics
Ian Haney Lopez
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Environmental Racism and the Rise of Environmental Justice
Luke W. Cole
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
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Harvest of Empire: The History of Latinos in America
Juan González
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J.D. Vance
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Hope and Despair in the American City
Gerald Grant
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My Beloved World
Sonia Sotomayor
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Notes of a White Black Woman
Judy Scales-Trent
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein
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The Color of Wealth
Barbara Robles et. al
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
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The Other Wes Moore
Wes Moore
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White Like Me
Tim Wise
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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
Documentaries
Documentary
13th
Directed by Ava DuVernay
Documentary
Harvest of Empire
Based on the book Harvest of Empire: The History of Latinos in America, written by journalist Juan González. The film was directed by Peter Getzels and Eduardo López
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Traces of a Trade: A Story from the Deep North
Directed by Katrina Browne, Alla Kovgan and Jude Ray
Videos
Reports
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Herd Invisibility: The Psychology of Racial Privilege
L. Taylor Phillips and Brian S. Lowery
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The Racial Equity Dividend: Buffalo’s Great Opportunity
The report details what we all stand to gain when we close racial equity gaps in our community.
ViewGuides
Webinars
Online Resources
Online Resource
Historical Foundations of Race
National Museum of African American History & Culture
ViewRacial Equity Tools
Racial Equity Tool
A CEO Blueprint for Racial Equity
This blueprint provides support and collaboration in developing guidelines for businesses to analyze their impact on racial equity.
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