Ed Keener’s Reading List

Not sure where to start? Kessler Keener Foundation’s Board President has put together a list of some of his favorite reads. We hope that these will point you in the right direction, and if you are interested in continuing your learning, check out our continued reading list below.

Ed Keener’s Reading List for continuing learners

*An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
White Fragility, Why Its So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
The Color of Law, A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America By Richard Rothstein
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland, by Jonathan M. Metzl.
Stamped From The Beginning, The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi
How to Be an Anti-racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Surviving in Two Worlds: Contemporary Native American Voices, 1997. Indigenous by Lois Crozier-Hogle (Author), Darryl Babe Wilson (Author), Ferne Jensen (Author), Jay Leibold (Editor), Giuseppe Saitta (Photographer), Greg Sarris (Introduction)
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America by Gerald Horne
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by Heather McGhee
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
Caste: The Origins of Our Dissents by Isabel Wilkerson
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Ed Keener’s Reading List

*An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

White Fragility, Why Its So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones

The Color of Law, A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America By Richard Rothstein

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland, by Jonathan M. Metzl.

Stamped From The Beginning, The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi

How to Be an Anti-racist by Ibram X. Kendi

Surviving in Two Worlds: Contemporary Native American Voices, 1997. Indigenous by Lois Crozier-Hogle (Author), Darryl Babe Wilson (Author), Ferne Jensen (Author), Jay Leibold (Editor), Giuseppe Saitta (Photographer), Greg Sarris (Introduction)

The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America by Gerald Horne

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by Heather McGhee

The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone

Caste: The Origins of Our Dissents by Isabel Wilkerson

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo