Only have time to read one book to prepare for teaching the course? This is our top choice:

An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz

 

Looking for More? Here are two other excellent books:

Four Hundred Souls edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain

Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

 

Have all summer? Here are other titles we recommend:

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi.

So you want to talk about race By Ijeoma Oluo

Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Laura Gomez

Complicity. How the North promoted, prolonged, and profited from slavery by Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, Jenifer Frank

The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker

The Warmth of Other Suns – Isabel Wilkerson

Bearing the cross: MLK Jr. by David Garrow

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Latino Peoples in the New America Edited by José A. Cobas, Joe R. Feagin, Daniel J. Delgado, Maria Chávez