Samantha LaFountain

a.k.a. @cool_trash_kid

Critical Race Theory & Anti-Racism


  • Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History

    Author:

    Vron Ware

    Description:

    Examines the complex role white women have played in the perpetuation of racism throughout history. Explores how white women’s identities and experiences are intertwined with racial hierarchies, revealing their complicity in systems of racial oppression while also considering possibilities for challenging these structures.

  • How to Be an Antiracist

    Author:

    Ibram X. Kendi

    Description:

    Offers a transformative approach to understanding and combating racism by challenging readers to actively confront and dismantle racist policies and ideas. Blends personal narrative, history, and social analysis to explore how individuals and societies can work toward racial equality.

  • Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

    Author:

    Ijeoma Oluo

    Description:

    Critiques the dominance of white male power in shaping American society and its ongoing harmful effects. And examines how white men have historically maintained social, economic, and political privilege, and the ways this legacy continues to perpetuate inequality and injustice.