Reading List
Check out the books that some of our members have suggested as good guides for exploring white supremacy, patriarchy, and how white men fit into the work toward collective liberation. If you would like us to add something to this list please contact us!
Also, if you enjoy reading and discussing in a group, check out our Reading Circle which meets monthly.
Collective Liberation
Feminism for Men
Feminism is for Everybody – bell hooks
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love – bell hooks
Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nuturance Culture – Nora Samaran
For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity – Liz Plank
The Man They wanted Me to Be–Jared Saxton
Whose Story is This?— Rebecca Solnit
Men’s Work: How to Stop the Violence that Tears Our Lives Apart – Paul Kivel
Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power – Ann Russo
The Little #metoo Book for Men–Mark Greene
The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy–Allan Johnson
Anti-Racism for White Folks
How to be An Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi
So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism – Robin Diangelo
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice–Paul Kivel
White Guys: Studies in Postmodern Domination & Difference–Fred Pfeil
White Supremacy
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America – Ibram Kendi
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Michelle Alexander
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World – David Stannard
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America – Ijeoma Oluo
Patriarchy
Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale – Maria Mies
Conquest: Sexual Violence and Indian Genocide – Andrea Smith
Myths of Male Dominance – Eleanor Burke Leacock
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny – Kate Manne
Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity & Sexuality in High School – CJ Pascoe
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation – Silvia Federici
Anti-Fascism
Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook – Mark Bray
Trans Liberation
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue – Leslie Feinberg
Amateur: A True Story of What Makes a Man – Thomas Page McBee
Connecting the Dots
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement – Angela Davis