Recommended Books
The following books (and many others not listed here) can be used with your CTTT Local Affiliate Group to spark conversation and transformation. Collective reading and discussion are good ways to Uncover History, Build Connections, Work Toward Healing, and Take Action together.
- Mindful of Race, by Ruth King (Sounds True, 2018)
White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo (Beacon Press, 2018)- My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem (Central Recovery, 2017)
- Stamped from the Beginning, by Ibram X. Kendi (Nation Books, 2017)
- Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi (Knopf, 2016)
- Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau, 2015)
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. (Viking, 2014)
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson (Spiegel & Grau, 2014)
- Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race, Debby Irving (Elephant Room Press, 2014)
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander (The New Press, 2010)
- Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, by Douglas Blackmon (Doubleday, 2008)
Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It, by Shelly Tochluk (Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2010)- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot (Crown Publishing Group, 2010)
- The Little Book of Racial Healing, by Jodie Geddes and Thomas Norman DeWolf (Good Books, 2019)
- The Little Book of Circle Processes, by Kay Pranis (Good Books, 2005)
- The Little Book of Trauma Healing, by Carolyn Yoder (Good Books, 2005)
- The Little Book of Restorative Justice, by Howard Zehr (Good Books, 2002)
- Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations, by Roy L. Brooks (University of California Press, 2004)
- The Hidden Wound, by Wendell Berry (North Point Press, 1989)