A partial and imperfect bibliography

Every idea I have is influenced by the work and ideas of every teacher I have ever had. Constantly citing and sourcing all of them feels like an impossible task, and yet they all deserve to be surfaced and honored. And as part of this work, I do my best to elevate the voices that inspire me both as an opportunity for readers to dig deeper, but also to understand more deeply where I’m coming from, what inspires and influences me, and that I am deeply aware that I am as much messenger, collaborator, and sharer as I am any kind of source for the ideas I think we need as a humanity and as a country.

This list is imperfect and incomplete. That these works and these thinkers and doers have influenced me is unquestionable, but not equally, not uniformly, and in some cases as not directly. Some are influences I have learned from to understand and contextualize my understandings of systems, but whose conclusions I don’t embrace or endorse. Many are people I consider deep and fundamental teachers and whose work I read and reread again and again. So I encourage you to dig and explore here, but be gentle with your conclusions.

Berry, Wendell. The Unsettling of America

Blackie, Sharon. If Women Rose Rooted

Butler, Octavia. The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of the Talents

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. We Were Eight Years in Power

Darity, William and A. Kirsten Mullen. From Here to Equality

Daschuk, James. Clearing the Plains

Daily, Gretchen. Nature's Services

Diangela, Robin. White Fragility

Dunbar-Ortiz, Rozanne. Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States

Favereau, Marie. The Horde

Friedman, Benjamin. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

Gilio-Whitaker, Dina and Rozanne Dunbar-Ortiz All the Real Indians Died Off