Related Resources
Companion Resources to Hey, White Girl
NOVELS
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson (verse novel)
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
YOUNG ADULT
Malcolm and Me, Robin Farmer
The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
The Long Ride, Marina Budhos
New Kid, Jerry Craft
Lies We Tell Ourselves, Robin Talley
March Forward, Girl, Melba Beals
I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This, Jacqueline Woodson
PLAYS & FILMS
A Raisin in the Sun
West Side Story
“The Lost Class of 1959” Edward R. Murrow, documentary on White Resistance in Virginia
POETRY
“Let America be America Again” Langston Hughes
https://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again
“The Dream Keeper” Langstons Hughes
“Prospective Immigrants Please Note” Adrienne Rich
https://billmoyers.com/story/adrienne-richs-prospective-immigrants-please-note/
“Elena” Pat Mora https://hiv.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/SISTA.Latina-Elena-Poem.pdf
“February 12, 1963” Jacqueline Woodson
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/92335/february-12th-1963
“Ain’t Burned All the Bright” Jason Reynolds & Jason Griffin
BIOGRAPHICAL
Separate Pasts: Growing Up Whtie in the Segregated South, Melton
McLaurin
A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High
School, Carlotta Walls LaNier & Lisa Frazier Page
A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women who
Desegregated America’s Schools, Rachel Devlin
White Girl, Clara Silverstein
Hey, White Girl!, Susan Gregory
Daughters of the Dream, Tamara Lucas Copeland
Elizabeth & Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock, David Margolick
VIETNAM
Two Souls Indivisible, James Hirsch
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home, Tim O’Brien
An American Requiem, James Carroll
HISTORY
Five Miles Away, A World Apart, James Ryan
The Color of Their Skin, Robert Pratt
The Big Bang, Oliver Hill
Children of the Dream, Rucker Johnson
The Moderate’s Dilemma, Matthew Lassiter & Andrew Lewis
United in Rivalry: Richmond’s Armstrong-Maggie Walker Classic,
Michael Whitt
Richmond’s Unhealed History, Ben Campbell
Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little
Rock’s Central High, Melba Pattillo Beals
Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County, Kristen Green
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families,
J. Anthony Lukas
https://richmondmagazine.com/news/richmond-history/busing-for-equality/
https://motonmuseum.org/learn/magazine-project/
SOCIAL JUSTICE
Waking up White, Debby Irving
Caste, Isabelle Wilkerson
“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”
Beverly Daniel Tatum
Stamped, Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Learning in Public, Courtney Martin
The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein
https://www.learningforjustice.org/classroom-resources/texts/a-tale-of-two-schools
EMPATHY
A Long Walk to Water, Linda Sue Park
Persepolis: A Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi (graphic novel)
Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood, Ibtisam Barakat
Night, Elie Wiesel
The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible, Leon Leyson
Paperboy, Vince Vawter
Wonder, R.J. Palacio
https://www.learningforjustice.org/classroom-resources/texts/new-girl-in-school
PODCASTS
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
This American LIfe- The Problem We All Live With PART ONE
The Problem We All Live With - Part Two
Nice White Parents (NYTimes)
Memory Wars (wvtf radio iq)
WEBSITES
https://www.learningforjustice.org
https://www.debbyirving.com/for-educators-and-parents/
https://motonmuseum.org/learn/
https://virginiahistory.org/learn/historical-book/chapter/massive-resistance