The Identities Project committee members ask you to take time to  think critically about the unacceptable, but very real, racist behaviors and beliefs in our country. We'd also encourage you to learn more about actions you can take to move towards justice.

We've compiled a list of books, films and more for you to explore over the summer. Thank you to those folx who have added their suggestions! Please reach out if you have more resources you'd like us to add. 

Want to do more than just learn? Start by joining your local SURJ chapter to connect to resources in your community (La Crosse area SURJ). 

Books - Nonfiction (consider purchasing from independent bookstores!)

• "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nahesi Coates
• "Stamped from the Beginning" by Ibram X Kendi 
• "How to be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi
• “How We Fight For Our Lives” by Saeed Jones
• "Me and White Supremacy" by Layla Saad 
• “So You Want to Talk About Race” by Ijeoma Oluo
• “From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America” by Elizabeth Hinton
• “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander
• "When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir" by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
• “Waking Up White” by Debby Irving
• "Minor Feelings" by Cathy Park Hong
• "Are Prisons Obsolete?" by Angela Davis
• “I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness” by Austin Channing Brown

Books - Fiction

• "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas 
• "We Cast a Shadow" by Maurice Carlos Ruffin 
• "On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous" by Ocean Vuong 
• "Copperhead" by Alexis Zentner 
• "Pachinko" by Min Jin Lee
• “Such a Fun Age” by Kiley Reid
• "There There" by Tommy Orange

Films

• 13TH (free on YouTube!)
• 20 Documentaries About Black Women To Watch All Year
• Self Made – Madame CJ Walker
• When They See Us
• Mudbound

Other

• “Visit” America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee, WI online
• Take the Implicit Bias test
• Peruse this Catholicism, Christianity and Racism resource guide
• Viterbo library list of antiracist resources
• A guide to "calling people in" when talking about violence 
• Ethics Today: how should white people talk about race?
• WPR Newsmakers interview with leaders working to improve diversity in the La Crosse area
• The Greater La Crosse Area Diversity Council's multicultural resource guide
• Resources for Black healing
• Viterbo library list of common read resources (our common read this year explores Japanese internment camps)
• National Resources List
• Explore the National Museum of African American History & Culture's resources for talking about race.