Anti-Racism and Racial Justice Resources

UCLA credentials needed for access.

• Ethnic & Racial Studies
• Journal of Race & Policy
• Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race
• Race, Gender & Class
• Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice
• Critical Race and Whiteness Studies
• Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics

UCLA credentials needed for access.

• Linguistics of Color Blind Racism: How to Talk Nasty about Blacks without Sounding “Racist" by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (2002)

• Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color by Kimberie Crenshaw (1991)

• Mass Incarceration: Examining and Moving Beyond the New Jim Crow by James Kilgore (2015)

• Whiteness as Property by Cheryl I. Harris (1993)

• “White Institutional Presence: The Impact of Whiteness on Campus Climate” by Diane Lynn Gusa in Harvard Educational Review

• Hooker, Juliet. “Black Lives Matter and the Paradoxes of U.S. Black Politics: From Democratic Sacrifice to Democratic Repair.” Political Theory, vol. 44, no. 4, 2016, pp. 448–469.

• Banks, Antoine, et al. “Black Politics: How Anger Influences the Political Actions Blacks Pursue to Reduce Racial Inequality.” Political Behavior, vol. 41, no. 4, 2019, pp. 917–943. 

• Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, et al. “The Structure of Racism in Color-Blind, ‘Post-Racial’ America.” American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 59, no. 11, 2015, pp. 1358–1376. 

• Chaney, Cassandra, and Ray Robertson. “Racism and Police Brutality in America.” Journal of African American Studies, vol. 17, no. 4, 2013, pp. 480–505.

• DiAngelo, Robin. “White Fragility..” Counterpoints, vol. 497, 2016, pp. 245–253.

• Hatch, Anthony Ryan. “New Technologies of Resistance.” Radical History Review, vol. 2017, no. 127, 2017, pp. 125–132. 

• Hinton, Elizabeth and DeAnza Cook. "The Mass Criminalization of Black Americans: A Historical Overview." Annual Review of Criminology, vol. 4, 2020. 

• Makalani, Minkah. “Black Lives Matter and the Limits of Formal Black Politics.” The South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 116, no. 3, 2017, pp. 529–552. 

• Mcleod, Allegra M. "Envisioning Abolition Democracy." Harvard Law Review, vol. 132, no. 6, 2019, pp. 1613-1649. 

• Motley, Robert O., and Sean Joe. “Police Use of Force by Ethnicity, Sex, and Socioeconomic Class.” Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, vol. 9, no. 1, 2018, pp. 49–67. 

• Smith, Candis Watts, et al. “The Dynamics of Racial Resentment across the 50 US States.” Perspectives on Politics, vol. 18, no. 2, 2020, pp. 527–538. 

Open access.

• Letter From a Birmingham Jail  Martin Luther King, Jr. // The Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute

• The Case for Reparations  Ta-Nehisi Coates // The Atlantic, June 2014

• A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement  Alicia Garza // The Feminist Wire, October 7, 2014

• Interview with Saidiya Hartman An interview with writer Saidiya Hartman on insurgent histories and the abolitionist imaginary. // Artforum, July 14, 2020

• The Trayvon Generation  Elizabeth Alexander // The New Yorker, June 15, 2020

• What's Missing From White Fragility  Lauren Michele Jackson // Slate, Sept. 4, 2019

• “An American Uprising: Who, really, is the agitator here?"  David Remnick //The New Yorker