Women of Color Resources

Books by our 2024 FWCA featured speakers include:

• Dear Department Chair: letters from black women leaders to the next generation by Stephanie Adams, Stephanie Evans, and Stephanie Shonekan
• Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope by Victoria Reyes
• Native Country of the Heart by Cherrie Moraga
• This Bridge Call My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua
• Blackwildgirl: A Writer's Journey to Take Back Her Superpower by Menah Pratt
  
• Blackwildgirl Companion Journal: Finding Your Superpower by Menah Pratt

Additional recommendations:

• Loyalty Book Stores
• The 5 Love Languages
  • https://5lovelanguages.com/
• The 7 Circles of Wellness by Chelsey Luger
  
• Anything by bell hooks
  • https://bellhooksbooks.com/
• The Black Academic's Guide to Winning Tenure--Without Losing Your Soul by Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Tracey Laszloffy
  
• Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen
• Black Women's Yoga History by Stephanie Evans
  • https://sunypress.edu/Books/B/Black-Women-s-Yoga-History
• Chapter 1 by Ayanna M. Lynch, Kim Brittingham Barnett, and Makeba T. Green
  • https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781475868234/The-Ivory-Tower-Perspectives-of-Women-of-Color-in-Higher-Education
• COMMUNITY AS REBELLION: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color by Lorgia Garcia-Peña
  • https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1870-community-as-rebellion
• The Crucial Conversation
  • https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15014.Crucial_Conversations
• Feeding the Soul: Finding our way to joy, love and freedom by Tabitha Brown
  • https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/feeding-the-soul-tabitha-brown/1139029762
• Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy
  • Edited by Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde, Wei Ming Dariotis
  • Contributions by Shirley Hune, W P, Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde, Wei Ming Dariotis, Eliza Noh, Jane Junn, Mai’a K. Davis Cross, Cara Maffini Pham, Melody Yee, Jing Mai, Shannon Deloso, Kaozong N. Mouavangsou, Cindy Nhi Huynh, Akiko Takeyama, Rani Neutill, Brett J. Esaki, Grace J. Yoo, Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, Genevieve Erin O’Brien, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
  • https://www.fighttower.com/
• The Furrows 
  • https://citylights.com/new-fiction-in-hardcover/furrows/
• Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley (fiction)
  
  • https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669672/nightcrawling-by-leila-mottley/
• Goal Redeemer by Kemi Akintewe, Ph.D.
  • https://drkemiakintewe.com/product/goal-redeemer/
• Happy Women Live Better by Valorie Burton
• The Hidden Treaure of Black ASL by Carolyn McCaskill
  
• I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism - Lee Maracle
  • https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/505644.I_Am_Woman
• ‘I’m good’: Examining the internalization of the strong Black woman archetype by Taylor Geyton
  • https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10911359.2020.1844838
• “Intensity, anxiety … but also, hope?” Reflections on care, whiteness, and emotions by women of color during the virocene
  • Angie Mejia, Danniella Balangoy, Chandi Katoch
  • https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12853
• The Ivory Tower: Perspectives of Women of Color in Higher Education
  • Edited - Kimetta R. Hariston and Tawannah G. Allen
  • https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781475868234/The-Ivory-Tower-Perspectives-of-Women-of-Color-in-Higher-Education
• The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi
  • https://www.thelazygeniuscollective.com/book
• My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
  • https://centralrecoverypress.com/product/my-grandmothers-hands-racialized-trauma-and-the-pathway-to-mending-our-hearts-and-bodies-paperback
• Pause, Rest, Be by Octavia Raheem
  • https://www.pauserestbe.com/
• Personal Finance 101: From Saving and Investing to Taxes and Loans, an Essential Primer on Personal Finance by Alfred Mill, Michele Cagan CPA (Editor)
  • https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/52567834-personal-finance-101
• Professionalism as a Racial Construct by Leah Goodridge
  • https://www.uclalawreview.org/professionalism-as-a-racial-construct/
• Psychological distress across intersections of race/ethnicity, gender, and marital status during the COVID-19 pandemic by Brittany N. Hearne
  • https://pryorcenter.uark.edu/event.php?thisEvent=HEARNE-Brittany-N-20211202-PryorCenterPresents&eventdisplayName=Brittany%20N.%20Hearne%20-%20Psychological%20Distress%20by%20Race/Ethnicity%20and%20Education%20at%20the%20Onset%20of%20the%20COVID-19%20Pandemic
• Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey aka "The Nap Bishop"
  • https://thenapministry.com/
• Recreating Wakanda by promoting Black excellence in ecology and evolution. Nat Ecol Evol 4, 1285–1287 (2020)
  • https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1266-7
• Silence of the Womb from Pain to a Promise by Charnika P. Elliott
• The spirit of our work - Cynthia Dillard
  • https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676295/the-spirit-of-our-work-by-cynthia-b-dillard/
• Thesis: New Model to Test the Effects of Incubator Noise on Immature Mice, M.S. Dissertation, completed in November 2008
• Torn Apart by Dorothy Roberts
• Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
  • http://theyearofyesbook.com/
• We Should All Be Millionaires by Rachel Rodgers
  • https://helloseven.co/the-book/

• Anahuy Mentoring, LLC
  • https://anahuymentoring.com
• Better Bodies 4 Us
  • https://betterbodies4us.com/
• Black Woman on a Mission
  • https://blackwomanonamission.com/
• Burn.in Candle Co.
  • https://www.burnincandles.com/
• Celebrating Us
  • https://www.facebook.com/celebratingus22/
• GirlTrek
  • https://www.girltrek.org/
• Gymwraps by Nicole Ari Parker
  • https://thegymwrap.com/
• Kanaine Custom Apparel
  • https://kanaine.com/
• The Lip Bar
  • https://thelipbar.com/
• Love Iguehi
  • https://loveiguehi.com/
• Nguyen Coffee
  • https://nguyencoffeesupply.com/
• Onyx Beauty & Cosmetics
  • http://www.onyxbeautyandcosmetics.com/
• Pardon My Fro
  • https://pardonmyfro.com/
• Sabbatical Beauty (skincare)
  • https://sabbaticalbeauty.com/
• Shop with Dr. Charnika P. Elliott
  • https://charnikapelliott.com/shop/
• Triple C Counseling Services, PLLC
  • https://www.tripleccounseling.com/
• Women of Color New York
  • https://www.womenofcolornewyork.com/
• Yelverton's Enrichment Services, Inc.
  • https://www.yes2hh.com/
• Zen in a Jar
  • https://www.zeninajar.com/