Resource Library

Amplifying Marginalized Voices, Histories and Stories.

On Race and Identity

Asian American and Indigenous Voices

  • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning — Cathy Park Hong

  • Crying in H Mart — Michelle Zauner

  • Unaccustomed Earth — Jhumpa Lahiri

  • The Making of Asian America — Erika Lee

  • Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation — David L. Eng and Shinhee Han

  • Asian Americans and the Media — Kent A. Ono and Vincent N. Pham

  • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  • Braiding Sweetgrass — Robin Wall Kimmerer

  • There There — Tommy Orange

  • All the Real Indians Died Off: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Black and Latinx Voices

  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? — Beverly Daniel Tatum

  • So You Want to Talk About Race — Ijeoma Oluo

  • Stamped from the Beginning — Ibram X. Kendi

  • Sister Outsider — Audre Lorde

  • Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza — Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  • Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America — Juan González

  • Open Veins of Latin America — Eduardo Galeano

Arab and Middle Eastern Histories & Stories

  • The Map of Love — Ahdaf Soueif

  • The Prophet — Kahlil Gibran

  • Salt Houses — Hala Alyan

  • I Was Born for This — Alice Oseman

  • The Stone of Laughter — Hoda Barakat

On History and Systemic Oppression

  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness — Michelle Alexander

  • The Warmth of Other Suns — Isabel Wilkerson

  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents — Isabel Wilkerson

Hidden Figures in History

Activists and Organizers

  • Claudette Colvin

  • Bayard Rustin

  • Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson

  • Grace Lee Boggs

  • Larry Itliong

  • Yuri Kochiyama

  • Wilma Mankiller

  • Buffy Sainte-Marie

  • Maria Tallchief

Other Marginalized Voices

  • Pauli Murray

  • Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson (again emphasized)

Latinx Trailblazers

  • Sylvia Mendez

  • Julia de Burgos

  • Dolores Huerta

  • Felipe Luciano

  • Ritchie Valens

Arab Figures

  • Fatima al-Fihri

  • Ibn Khaldun

  • Raja Al-Khuzai

  • Zaha Hadid

  • Nawal El Saadawi

Artists and Writers

  • Zora Neale Hurston

  • Jean-Michel Basquiat

  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • Anna May Wong

  • Isamu Noguchi

  • Kalpana Chawla

Scholars to Follow / Writers

  • Kimberlé Crenshaw

  • Derrick Bell

  • Pema Chödrön

  • Angela Davis

  • Robin DiAngelo

  • Vijay Prashad

  • Erika Lee

  • Mae Ngai

  • Ruth Wilson Gilmore

  • Vine Deloria Jr.

Arab and Middle Eastern Voices

  • Lina Mounzer (@linamounzer)

  • Mona Chalabi (@monachalabi)

  • Alaa Murabit (@alaamurabit)

Cultural Storytellers

  • Julián Castro (@JulianCastroTX)

  • Diane Guerrero (@dianeguerrero__)

Writers and Academics

  • Cathy Park Hong

  • Ocean Vuong

  • Edward Said

  • Dr. Rocío R. Caballero-Gill (@LatinxGeoscientist)

  • Paola Ramos (@PaolaRamos)

Social Influencers and Content Creators

Influencers Sharing Marginalized Voices

  • Rachel Cargle

  • Ijeoma Oluo

  • Layla F. Saad

  • @nextshark (AAPI community news)

  • @cecesambath

  • @michellekimkim

Cultural Storytelling Platforms

  • @asiansformentalhealth

  • @browngirltherapy

  • @jennyhan

Indigenous Voices

  • @IndigenousRising

  • @NotYourMascot

  • @nikkigilbertart

Broader Social Advocacy

  • @rachel.cargle

  • @laylafsaad

  • @adriennemareebrown

Educational Platforms and Organizations

  • Native Land Digital

  • The Zinn Education Project

  • The National Museum of the American Indian

Platforms and Organizations

  • The Nap Ministry

  • Black Lives Matter

  • Decolonize Your Bookshelf

Documentaries and Films

  • 13th (Netflix)

  • When They See Us (Netflix)

  • I Am Not Your Negro (Amazon Prime)

Articles and Journals

  • Latino Studies Journal

  • The Afro-Latin@ Reader edited by Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores