Antiracist Reading List

This is the list of readings discussed in the Purdue math antiracism reading group. Numbered items have been read and discussed, while bulleted items have been suggested but not yet read. The items are presented in the order we read them, not in any order of importance. Most things on the list are worth reading. Note that inclusion on this list is not an endorsement of the ideas expressed in the work – some items were included to give context to another work which provides opposing views.

If you are looking to get your feet wet, I recommend you start with book 1 and articles 2, 4, and 10. If you would like to join the discussion, see what we are doing on the reading group homepage. If you have suggestions for additional readings, please send them to our mailing list.

Articles

1. Answering White People’s Most Commonly Asked Questions about the Black Lives Matter Movement by Courtney Martin
2. Equity, inclusion, and antiblackness in mathematics education by Danny Bernard Martin
3. Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? by Ibram X. Kendi
4. Political conocimiento for teaching mathematics by Rochelle Gutiérrez
5. Why (Urban) Mathematics Teachers Need Political Knowledge by Rochelle Gutiérrez
6. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
7. “No One Wants to Believe It”: Manifestations of White Privilege in a STEM-Focused College by Kelly Grindstaff and Michael Mascarenhas
8. For a Black Mathematician, What It’s Like to Be the ‘Only One’ by Amy Harmon
9. What I Learned While Reporting on the Dearth of Black Mathematicians by Amy Harmon
10. The Role of Professional Societies in STEM Diversity by Vernon R. Morris and Talitha M. Washington
11. Why Sexist Language Matters by Sherryl Kleinman
12. Ain’t I A Woman? by Sojourner Truth
13. Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification by Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru
14. The Misbegotten URM as a Data Point by Estela Mara Bensimon
15. Why We’re Capitalizing Black by Nancy Coleman
16. More Than Just Skill: Examining Mathematics Identities, Racialized Narratives, and Remediation Among Black Undergraduates by Gregory Larnell
17. How to Talk to Your Family About Racism on Thanksgiving by Rachel Elizabeth Cargle
18. A Talk to Teachers by James Baldwin
19. The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
20. Viewpoint: US must confront its Original Sin to move forward by Barrett Holmes Pitner
21. How to respond to “riots never solve anything!” by Rafi D’Angelo
22. Kimberlé Crenshaw’s Intersectional Feminism by JSTOR Daily editors
23. Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color by Kimberlé Crenshaw
24. Ibram X. Kendi on how to build an antiracist movement (interview by Bina Venkataraman)
25. A Framework for Understanding Whiteness in Mathematics Education by Dan Battey and Luis A. Leyva
26. Hungry And Homeless In College: Results From A National Study Of Basic Needs Insecurity In Higher Education by Sara Goldrick-Rab, Jed Richardson, and Anthony Hernandez
27. Refusing Systemic Violence Against Black Children by Danny Bernard Martin, Paula Groves Price, and Roxanne Moore
28. Why Mathematics (Education) was Late to the Backlash Party: The Need for a Revolution by Rochelle Gutiérrez
29. “You Would Not Believe What I Have to Go Through to Prove My Intellectual Value!” Stereotype Management Among Academically Successful Black Mathematics and Engineering Students by Ebony O. McGee and Danny Bernard Martin
30. “I Am Not a Racist But…”: Mapping White College Students’ Racial Ideology in the USA by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Tyrone Forman
31. Hidden Assumptions and Unaddressed Questions in Mathematics for All Rhetoric by Danny Bernard Martin
32. Race, Racial Projects, and Mathematics Education by Danny Bernard Martin
33. Get Out The Way by Piper Harron
34. Three Questions: The Journey of One Black Mathematician by Edray Goins
35. Embracing Nepantla: Rethinking “Knowledge” and its Use in mathematics teaching by Rochelle Gutiérrez
36. White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
37. Great Expectations: The Negative Consequences of Falling Short by Colin P. Ho, Denise M. Driscoll, and Danielle L. Loosbrock
38. Pandemics and Issues of Equity by Naomi A. Jessup, Jennifer A. Wolfe, Oyita Udiani and Crystal A. Kalinec-Craig
39. Ethnomathematics and its Place in the History and Pedagogy of Mathematics, book chapter by Ubiratan D’Ambrosio
40. Black Thoughts Matter by C. K. Raju
41. Towards Equity in Mathematics Education 1. Good-Bye Euclid! by C. K. Raju
42. Good-Bye Pythagoras? by Elizabeth Greene
43. Essentialism and Experience by bell hooks
44. Stop Celebrating Thanksgiving by Stephanie Masta
45. Mathematical Microaggressions Francis Su
46. Normalizing Black Girls’ Humanity in Mathematics Classrooms by Nicole M Joseph, Meseret F Hailu, and Jamaal Sharif Matthews
47. The Impossibility of Being “Perfect and White”: Black Girls’ Racialized and Gendered Schooling Experiences by Dorinda J. Carter Andrews, Tashal Brown, Eliana Castro, and Effat Id-Deen
48. Where Did BIPOC Come From? by Sandra E. Garcia
49. “All of These Political Questions”: Anticommunism, Racism, and the Origin of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society by Michael J. Barany
50. Racism in Remediation: How Black Students Navigate Stereotypes to Achieve Success in Developmental Mathematics by Maxine Roberts
51. How Many Bad Apples? Investigating Implicit and Explicit Bias Among Police Officers and the General Public by Jomills H. Braddock, II, Rachel E. Lautenschlager, Alex R. Piquero, and Nicole Leeper Piquero
52. This Is How We Juneteenth by Gina Cherelus
53. Beyond the Land Acknowledgement:College “LAND BACK” or Free Tuition for Native Students by Megan Red Shirt-Shaw
54. Land-grab universities by Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone
55. Students and faculty urge deeper look at land-grant legacy by Jessica Douglas
56. Ready to Be an Ally for Black Academics? Here’s a Start by Ebony O. McGee
57. Devalued Black and Latino Racial Identities: A By-Product of STEM College Culture? by Ebony O. McGee
58. An open letter to SCOTUS from professional physicists by the Equity & Inclusion in Physics & Astronomy group
59. So You Call Yourself an Ally: 10 Things All ‘Allies’ Need to Know by Jamie Utt
60. Mathematics holds the key to increasing STEM enrollment of U.S. students by Bill Vélez
61. Mathematical light shines blindly on us by Bill Vélez
62. Ethnomathematics and the Limits of Culture by Aldexandre Pais
63. Teaching Should Be Political by Clint Smith
64. On Structural Racism and Science by Erik Loomis
65. Todos Cuentan: Cultivating Diversity in Combinatorics by Federico Ardila-Mantilla
66. On Proof and Progress in Mathematics by William Thurston, responding to “Theoretical Mathematics”: Toward a Cultural Synthesis of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics” by Arthur Jaffe and Frank Quinn
67. The importance of stupidity in scientific research by Martin A. Schwartz
68. The imposter phenomenon in high achieving women: Dynamics and therapeutic intervention by Pauline Rose Clance and Suzanne Imes
69. Challenging what counts as mathematics: Reflecting on teacher’s perceptions of culturally responsive pedagogy in the mathematics classroom by Kathleen Nolan & Shana Graham
70. Structure Matters: Twenty-One Teaching Strategies to Promote Student Engagement and Cultivate Classroom Equity by Kimberly D. Tanner
71. Returning to ‘Normal’ in Education is Not Good Enough by Bob Moses 1.Mathematics Education Through the Lens of Social Justice: Acknowledgment, Actions, and Accountability by the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics and TODOS: Mathematics for ALL
72. To Keep Students in STEM fields, Let’s Weed Out the Weed-Out Math Classes by Pamela Burdman
73. New Math Research Group Reflects a Schism in the Field by Rachel Crowell
74. Six Ways Mathematics Instructors Can Support Diversity and Inclusion by Natalie LF Hobson.
75. Six Ways to be Aniracist by Rebecca Ruiz
76. “Color Neutral” Is Not a Thing: Redefining Construct Definition and Representation through a Justice Oriented Critical Antiracist Lens by Jennifer Randall
77. When black people are in pain, white people just join book clubs by Tre Johnson
78. Cross-Cultural Study of Cognitive and Metacognitive Processes During Math Problem Solving by Barbara Cozza and Maria Oreshkina
79. The Nonperformativity of Antiracism by Sara Ahmed
80. Ending racism is key to better science: a message from Nature’s guest editors by Melissa Nobles, Chad Womack, Ambroise Wonkam & Elizabeth Wathuti
81. Do introductory courses disproportionately drive minoritized students out of STEM pathways? by Neil Hatfield, Nathanial Brown, & Chad M Topaz
82. The unseen Black faces of AI algorithms by Abeba Birhane
83. Making whiteness visible: The promise of critical race theory in engineering education by Stephanie Masta
84. Todxs cuentan: building community and welcoming humanity from the first day of class. by Federico Ardilla-Mantilla
85. More Than Just Skill: Examining Mathematics Identities, Racialized Narratives, and Remediation Among Black Undergraduates by Gregory Larnell
86. Urban Mathematics Education as a Political and Personal Project by Gregory Larnell and Danny Bernard Martin
87. “It Seems like They Purposefully Try to Make as Many Kids Drop”: An Analysis of Logics and Mechanisms of Racial-Gendered Inequality in Introductory Mathematics Instruction by Luis A. Leyva, R. Taylor McNeill, Brittany L. Marshall & Oscar A. Guzmán

• Summer Program Gives Women in Graduate-Level Mathematics an EDGE by Amanda Castro-Crist
• Building Equity-minded Online Programs by Justin Lanier and Marissa Kawehi Loving
• Make equity essential to expedite change in academia by Beronda L. Montgomery
• The Pipeline for Achieving Faculty Diversity: Debunking the Myths by Daryl G. Smith, Lisa Wolf-Wendel, Bonnie Busenberg, and Associates
• The Secret to Raising Smart Kids by Carol S. Dweck
• Unfolding the Myth of Imposter Syndrome by Leah Jackson
• Charting a course to make maths truly universal by Rachel Crowell

Books

1. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
2. White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
3. Blindspot: hidden biases of good people by Mahzarin R. Banaji
4. Asked and Answered: Dialogues On Advocating For Students of Color in Mathematics by Pamela Harris and Aris Winger
5. Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
6. Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
7. Me and white supremacy: combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor by Layla F Saad
8. Racism without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
9. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
10. Mathematics for Human Flourishing by Francis Su
11. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
12. Count Me In edited by Della Dumbaugh and Deanna Haunsperger
13. Mathematics for Social Justice: Resources for the College Classroom edited by Gizem Karaali and Lily S. Khadjavi

• Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts
• Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit
• Building Support for Scholarly Practices in Mathematics Methods (anthology)
• The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Critical race theory in mathematics education by Julius Davis and Christopher C Jett
• Race after technology : abolitionist tools for the new Jim code by Ruha Benjamin
• How Many More Fires: A List of Demands by Concerned Purdue Student Body Members
• The crest of the peacock : the non-european roots of mathematics by George Gheverghese Joseph
• Caste: the origins of our discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
• We were eight years in power: an American tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Interrogating whiteness and relinquishing power : white faculty’s commitment to racial consciousness in STEM classrooms, edited by Nicole Joseph, Chayla Haynes, and Floyd Cobb
• Culturally responsive pedagogy : promising practices for African American male students by Dennisha Murff
• Towards Equity in Mathematics Education: Gender, Culture, and Diversity edited by Helen Forgasz and Ferdinand Rivera
• Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures by Helaine Selin
• Killing Rage: ending racism by bell hooks
• Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice by Denisha Jones and Jesse Hagopian
• Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation by Ebony McGee
• Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil
• Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean
• Teachers as Cultural Workers by Paulo Freire
• The difference : how the power of diversity creates better groups, firms, schools, and societies by Scott E. Page
• Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect us by Claude Steele
• Do The Work!: An Antiracist Activity Book by W. Kamau Bell and Kate Schatz
• The Why Axis by Uri Gneezy and John List
• The myth of the model minority : Asian Americans facing racism by Rosalind Chou and Joe Feagin

Videos

1. Taking a Knee in Mathematics Education by Danny Bernard Martin
2. The danger of a single story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3. “Why We Can’t Wait”: Using Social Justice to Transform Data Science by Talitha Washington
4. 13th (a feature film on Netflix)
5. 10 things every math educator should know by Rochelle Gutiérrez
6. Rehumanizing Mathematics: A Vision for the Future by Rochelle Gutiérrez
7. Asian Americans: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
8. Is PragerU Right About Diversity in STEM? by Dr. Fatima
9. Seeking racial equity and social justice in mathematics teaching and learning by Robert Berry
10. Black Queer Town Hall in STEM panel discussion
11. Keynote: Roles for Computing in Social Change Rediet Abebe (University of California, Berkeley) by Rediet Abebe

• Picture a Scientist (feature film)
• Social Justice Mathematics by Lily Khadjavi
• TODOS Live!
• Netflix Black Lives Matter collection
• SNIPPET: Microaggressions in the Classroom

Other resources

1. Black at Purdue
   • examples relating specifically to math class: A, B.
   • examples relating specifically to group work: A, B, C, D, E, F.
   • examples of mistreatment by instructors: A, B.

• Lunch in the Time of Covid
• Math Ed Podcast interview with Gregory Larnell
• AMS education webinars
• Black In Math Week on Twitter
• From Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist Journey podcast

Other people’s reading lists

• Irena Swanson
• new york times
• Ibram X. Kendi
• shutdownstem
• Tasha K
• John Golden
• Your Black Friends Are Busy
• Teaching Postsecondary Math for Social Justice: Resource Folder edited by Kenan Ince
• Ethics in Mathematics Readings compilied by Allison Miller
• Dismantle Collective
• Books on White Identity
• Books on Whiteness & Critical White Studies