Daniel Q. Gillion, Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt Presidential Distinguished Professor, University of Pennsylvania

What People Should Read to Understand:

If this were any other moment, I might’ve recommended someone else’s book.

Although the nouveau woke are suddenly speaking out against racialized violence, my book traces how battles over identity, citizenship, and belonging have shaped every aspect of American politics from battles over Confederate monuments, to voter suppression, to media coverage of the murder of Black trans women.

Author of Sisters in the Statehouse: Black Women and Legislative Decision Making

What People Should Read to Understand:

Keisha Lindsay‘s In a Classroom of their Own: The intersection of race and feminist politics in all-black male schools.

Author of American While Black: Race, Immigration and the Limits of Citizenship

What People Should Read to Understand:

Robin DiAngelo‘s White Fragility; Carol Anderson‘s White Rage; Ibram X. Kendi‘s Stamped from the Beginning 

To stay sane, I’m reading:

Michael Arcenaux‘s I Don’t Want to Die Broke and Samantha Irby‘s Wow, No Thank You.

Author of After the Rebellion: Black Youth, Social Movement Activism, and the Post-Civil Rights Generation

What People Should Read to Understand:

Sekou Franklin‘s After the Rebellion: Black Youth, Social Movement Activism, and the Post-Civil Rights Generation.