Episode · Pod Save America · 2020-06-18
Books mentioned on Is America A Racist Country? | Pod Save America
Heather McGhee recommended White Fragility by Dr. Robin DiAngelo, The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, and The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. Also mentioned: How to Be a (Young) Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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White Fragility
White Fragility by Dr.
Recommended“like read the color of law by Richard Roth seem to really understand how much the government segregated Americans you know read the warmth of other Suns go ahead and read white fragility read the new Jim Crow read how to be an aunt racist”
Where to get it
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How to Be a (Young) Antiracist
How to Be a (Young) Antiracist by Ibram X.
Recommended“right like read the color of law by Richard Roth seem to really understand how much the government segregated Americans you know read the warmth of other Suns go ahead and read white fragility read the new Jim Crow read how to be an aunt racist”
Where to get it
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The New Jim Crow
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander is a groundbreaking sociological study arguing that the American war on drugs functioned as a deliberate system of racial control, driving mass incarceration and stripping millions of African Americans of their basic civil rights.
Recommended“like read the color of law by Richard Roth seem to really understand how much the government segregated Americans you know read the warmth of other Suns go ahead and read white fragility read the new Jim Crow read how to be an aunt racist”
Where to get it
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How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X.
Recommended“like read the color of law by Richard Roth seem to really understand how much the government segregated Americans you know read the warmth of other Suns go ahead and read white fragility read the new Jim Crow read how to be an aunt racist”
Where to get it
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The Warmth of Other Suns
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson is a powerful and extensively researched historical account that chronicles the decades-long Great Migration of black citizens leaving the American South for northern and western cities.
Recommended“like read the color of law by Richard Roth seem to really understand how much the government segregated Americans you know read the warmth of other Suns go ahead and read white fragility read the new Jim Crow read how to be an aunt racist”
Where to get it
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The Color of Law
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein is an influential historical examination that exposes how local, state, and federal government policies deliberately imposed racial segregation in American cities and neighborhoods.
Recommended“like read the color of law by Richard Roth seem to really understand how much the government segregated Americans you know read the warmth of other Suns go ahead and read white fragility read the new Jim Crow read how to be an aunt racist”
Where to get it
