Book Recommendations

Whenever possible, please try to purchase some or all books from Black-owned bookstores or local, independent bookstores.​

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
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Brain Rules by John Medina

​Check Your Privilege: Live Into the Work by Myisha Hill 

The College Fear Factor by Rebecca Cox

​Educating a New Majority: Transforming America's Educational System for Diversity by Laura Rendon

​Octavia Butler's books

​Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire

​Racial Battle Fatigue in Higher Education by Kenneth Fasching-Varner et al

Rewire Your Anxious Brain by Catherine Pittman and Elizabeth Karle

Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (and You) Break the Stress Cycle & Successfully Engage with Life by Stuart Shanker

Social: Why Our Brains are Wired to Connect by Matthew Lieberman

​The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown by Daniel Coyle 

​Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

Trauma Stewardship by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky with Connie Burk