Black Lives Matter Reading Resources
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As the Lakers look to implement change within the organization to educate employees on race and racism towards a goal of affecting actual change in the community, Dr. Karida Brown has joined the franchise as Director of Racial Equity & Action, the team announced on Thursday.
A tenure-track Assistant Professor in UCLA’s Department of Sociology as well as their Department of African American studies, as the release stated, "Dr. Brown earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from Brown University in 2016, and an M.P.A. in Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania in 2011. She currently serves on the boards of The Obama Presidency Oral History Project and the Du Boisian Scholar Network.”
An initial step towards that education and action is a reading list provided by Dr. Brown so that employees might begin to educate themselves further on related topics. Those books are linked below:
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
by Ibram X. Kendi
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
by Crystal Marie Fleming
Twitter @alwaystheself
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by)
IG @diangelorobin
Twitter @robindiangelo
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
by Jonathan M. Metzl
Twitter @jonathanmetzl
White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America
by Margaret A. Hagerman
Twitter @maggiehagerman
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
Twitter @thenewjimcrow
Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century
by Barbara Ransby
Twitter @BarbaraRansby
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
by Andrea Ritchie, Angela Y. Davis (Foreword by)
IG @invisiblenomorebook
Twitter @dreanyc123
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
by Kelly Lytle Hernández
Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities
by Darnell Hunt (Editor), Ana-Christina Ramon (Editor)
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