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Philosophers and folks from a broad range of backgrounds have been writing about race, gender, ethnicity, and the whole human spectrum for a long time now. We may have a long way to go, but we're not starting from scratch. The resources for critical reflection listed below are just a few of the many resources available to help us understand what's happening now, how we got here, and what we can do to make our world better for the full human spectrum.
In Philosophy
- Key Concepts in World Philosophies: A Toolkit for Philosophers
- Ethical Theory in Global Perspective
- African Philosophy
- African Ethics: A Guide to Key Ideas
- Environmental Justice in African Philosophy
- Sikh Philosophy
- Maori Philosophy
- Philosophy of Science and the Kyoto School
- Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook
- Daya Krishna and Twentieth-Century Indian Philosophy
- Heaven and Earth Are Not Humane: The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy
- LatinX and Latin American Philosophy: A Collaborative Introduction
- The Philosophies of America Reader: From the Popol Vuh to the Present
- An Introduction to Latin American Philosophy
- Mexican Philosophy for the 20th Century
- Latin American Philosophy from Identity to Radical Exteriority
- Latin American Philosophy: Currents, Issues, Debates
- Latin American Philosophy for the 21st Century: The Human Condition, Values, and the Search for Identity
- An Introduction to Mesoamerican Philosophy
- Ways of Being in the World: An Introduction to Indigienous Philosophies of Turtle Island
- Indian from the Inside: Native American Philosophy and Cultural Renewal
- Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land: A Trickster Methodology for Decolonizing Environmental Ethics and Indigenous Futures
- American Indian Thought: Philosophical Essays
- How It Is: The Native American Philosophy of V. F. Cordova
- Debating Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Identity:Jorge J. E. Gracia and His Critics
- The Phenomenology of a Performative Knowledge System: Dancing with Native American Epistemology
- The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability
- Making and Unmaking Disability: The Three-Body Approach
- Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach
- Addressing Ableism: Philosophical Questions via Disability Studies
- Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability
- The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability
- The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability
- Slurs and Thick Terms: When Language Encodes Values
- On the Offensive: Prejudice in language past and present
- Bad Language
- Deafness, Gesture and Sign Language in the 18th Century French Philosophy
- Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad
- The Moral Psychology of Hate
- Race: A Philosophical Introduction
- What Is Race?: Four Philosophical Views
- Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future
- Race, Gender, and the History of Early Analytic Philosophy
- Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy:Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon, 1780-1830
- Kant and the Concept of Race
- Žižek on Race: Toward an Anti-racist Future
- Classical Arabic Philosophy: An Anthology of Sources
- The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy
- Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition
- Power and Possibility in Early Arabic Philosophy: Three Innovators Between Philoponus and Avicenna
- The Introduction of Arabic Philosophy into Europe
- The Philosophy and Theology of Averroes and Translated from the Arabic
- Theorizing Feminisms
- Feminist Philosophy of Mind
- Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution
- Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
- Sex, Love and Gender: A Kantian Theory
- Data Feminism
- Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data, and Intelligent Machines
- Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance
- Transcending: Trans Buddhist Voices
- The Metaphysics of Gender
- Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought
- The Jewish Philosophy Reader
- Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Science, Rationalism, and Religion
- German Idealism and the Jew: The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses
- Anti-Semitism and its Metaphysical Origins
- Nietzsche, Soloveitchik, and Contemporary Jewish Philosophy
Mills, Charles W.
McClendon, John H.& Ferguson, Stephen C.
- Globalizing Feminist Bioethics: Crosscultural Perspectives
- Disability Bioethics: Moral Bodies, Moral Difference
- Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics
- Feminist Bioethics: At the Center, on the Margins
- African American Bioethics: Culture, Race, and Identity
- Reproducing Persons: Issues in Feminist Bioethics
- The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics
- The future of bioethics is feminist and other essays
- Property in the Body: Feminist Perspectives
- The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics
- The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science
- Objectivity and Diversity: Another Logic of Scientific Research
- Analyzing Oppression
- The Truth About Denial: Bias and Self-Deception in Science, Politics, and Religion
- The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imaginations
- Responsibility from the Margins
Some Other Great Resources
Given the prevalence of concern about rapid technological change and AI, the list below includes books about the potentially oppressive effects of technology and AI.
A
- Adams, Maurianne et al (eds.) Readings for Diversity and Social Justice
- Alexander, MichelleThe New Jim Crow
- Anderson, Carol White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
- Anderson, Sharon K. & Middleton, Valerie A. (eds.) Explorations in Diversity: Examining the Complexities of Privilege, Discrimination, and Oppression
- Anzaldúa, Gloria Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza
- Aoun, Joseph Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
B
- Benjamin, Ruha Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
- Beydoun, Khaled A. American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear
- Brayne, Sarah Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing
- Borrows, John and McNeil, Kent (eds.) Voicing Identity: Cultural Appropriation and Indigenous Issues
- Broussard, Meredith
- Brown, Austin Channing I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
- Buolamwini, Joy (2023) Unmasking AI: My mission to protect what is human in a world of machines
C
- Chang, Emily Brotopia: Breaking up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
- Chin, Joshua and Liza Lin Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control
- Chou, Rosalind S. and Feagin, Joe R. Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism
- Christian, Brian The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi Between the World and Me
- Collins, Patricia Hill
- Crawford, Kate (2022) Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
D
- Davis, Lennard J. The Disability Studies Reader
- Deer, Sarah The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America
- DePoy, Elizabeth and Gilson, Stephen Branding and Designing Disability: Reconceptualising Disability Studies
- Desmond, Matthew Evicted! Poverty and Profit in the American City
- DiAngelo, Robin J. White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism
- Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne An Indigenous People's History of the United States
E-F
- Edin, Kathryn J. and Shaefer, H. Luke $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
- Eubanks, Virginia Automating Inequality: How High-Tech tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
- Faber, Liz W. The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri
- Fisher, Max The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired our Minds and Our World
- Freeman, Misty (2023) Unconscious Algorithms: Mapping The Confluence of Neuroscience and Unconscious Bias: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Black Girls and Women of Gen Z
- Freire, Paulo Pedagogy of the Oppressed
G-J
- Galeano, Eduardo Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
- Gissen, David The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access
- Goodley, Dan Dis/ability Studies: Theorising disablism and ableism
- Gómez, by Laura E. Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism
- Hicks, Mar Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
- Jefferson, Brian (2020) Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age
- Jeffreys, Sheila Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism
K
- Katz, Jackson The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help
- Kazi, Naia Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics
- Kendall, Mikki Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot
- Kendi, Ibram X.
- Kimmerer, Robin Wall Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- Kurashige, Lon Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States
L
- Ladau, Emily Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally
- Ladd, Paddy Seeing Through Deaf Eyes: Deaf Culture and Deaf Pedagogies - The Unrecognized Curriculum
- Lawrence, Calvin D. Hidden in White Sight: How AI Empowers and Deepens Systemic Racism
- Lebron, Christopher J. The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea
- Lee, Shelley Sang-Hee A New History of Asian America
M
- Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- Mason, Sheena Michele (2022) Theory of Racelessness: A Case for Antirace(ism)
- McIlwain, Charlton (2019) Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the Afronet to Black Lives Matter
- Morales, Ed Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture
- Morris, Monique W. Pushout: the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
- Morrison, Toni
N
- Nadal, Kevin L. That’s So Gay! Microaggressions and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender CommunityPao, Ellen Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
- Nario-Redmond, Michelle R. Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice
- National Center on Disability and Journalism Disability Language Style Guide
- Noble, Safiya Umoja Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
O-P
- Oluo, Ijeoma (2018) So You Want to Talk About Race
- "So you want to talk about race"| Talks at Google
- O'Neil, Cathy
- On the Media Busted! America’s Poverty Myths (audio podcast)
- Ortiz, Paul An African American and Latinx History of the United States
- Pasquale, Frank (2020) New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI
- Perez, Caroline Criado Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Q-R
- Quart, Alissa Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from The American Dream
- Ramirez, Mark D. and Peterson, David A. M. Ignored Racism: White Animus Toward Latinos
- Reséndez, Andrés The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
- Reyes-Chow, Bruce and Kemp-Pappan, Ryan But I Don't See You as Asian: Curating Conversations about Race
- Robinson, Susan How I Fail at Being Disabled (TED talk)
- Ross , Luana Inventing the Savage: The Social Construction of Native American Criminality
S-T
- Saad, Layla Me and White Supremacy
- Schwartz, James SJ et al (eds) Reclaiming Space: Progressive and Multicultural Visions of Space Exploration
- Steeves, Paulette F. C. The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere
- Takei, George , et al They Called Us Enemy
- Tankersley, Jim The Riches of This Land: The Untold, True Story of America's Middle Class
W-Z
- Wachter-Boettcher, Sara Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
- Wang, Esme Weijun The Collected Schizophrenias
- Ward, Jacob (2022)The Loop: How Technology is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back
- Washington, Harriet A. (2019) A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
- Wildcat, Daniel Red Alert! Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge
- Wong, (ed.) Alice Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
- Wu, Tim (2017) The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
- Young, Damon What Doesn’t Kill You Makes you Blacker
- Zuboff, Shoshana (2019) The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
- (film) Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World
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