Statement from the AEA Executive Committee (June 5, 2020)

Statement from the NEA (June 4, 2020)

Books

• Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Press, 2020.

• Anderson, Carol. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2016.

• Baradaran, Mehrsa. The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap. Harvard University Press, 2017.

• Benjamin, Ruha. Race after Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. John Wiley & Sons, 2019.

• Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. One World, 2015.

• Darity Jr, William A., and A. Kirsten Mullen. From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. UNC Press, 2020.

• DiAngelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism. Beacon Press, 2018.

• Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2007.

• Flynn, Andrea, Susan R. Holmberg, Dorian T. Warren, and Felicia J. Wong. The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy. Cambridge University Press, 2017.

• Kendi, Ibram X. How to be an Antiracist. One World/Ballantine, 2019.

• Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. Random House, 2017.

• Oluo, Ijeoma. So You Want to Talk about Race. Seal Press, 2019.

• Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. W.W. Norton & Company, 2017.

• Zambrana, Ruth Enid. Toxic Ivory Towers: The Consequences of Work Stress on Underrepresented Minority Faculty. Rutgers University Press, 2018.

Articles and Reports

• Coates, Ta-Nehisi. The case for reparations. The Atlantic 313, no. 5 (2014): 54-71.

• Cook, Lisa D. Violence and economic activity: evidence from African American patents, 1870–1940. Journal of Economic Growth 19, no. 2 (2014): 221-257.

• Gould, Elise, and Valerie Wilson. Black workers face two of the most lethal preexisting conditions for coronavirus—racism and economic inequality. EPI Report. June 2020.

• Hannah-Jones, Nikole, and Mary N. Elliott, eds. The 1619 Project. New York Times, 2019.

• Review of Black Political Economy>

• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/opinion/police-killings-black-mental-health.html, https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-black-professionals-unrest-lays-bare-a-balancing-act-at-work-11591202955, https://time.com/5848269/moms-equal-pay-day/ >

• The Videos That Rocked America. The Song That Knows Our Rage

Podcasts

• Scene on Radio: Seeing White

• The Indicator: Racism and Economics, Unemployment and the Racial Divide, and Story Of A Paper

Films

• I Am Not Your Negro, a 2016 documentary film directed by Raoul Peck and based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript Remember This House

• Just Mercy, a 2019 American legal drama film directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, based on the memoir and work by Bryan Stevenson

• Selma, a 2014 historical drama film directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Paul Webb

• 13th, a 2016 documentary by director Ava DuVernay tracing the history of race, slavery, and incarceration in the United States

Other

• Letters for Black Lives, resources and a letter translated into over 40 languages

• #Charlestonsyllabus from the African American Intellectual History Society

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AEA resources on race in the economics profession

• AEA Professional Climate Survey: Final Report and summaries: It was a Mistake for Me to Choose This Field, (Professional) Climate Change

• AEA Best Practices for Economists: Offers concrete, evidence-based steps to build a more diverse, inclusive, and productive profession

• AEA Code of Conduct and Policy on Harassment and Discrimination

• AEA Ombudsperson

• CSMGEP