In an effort to further the education of our teams and staff, Louisville City FC and Racing Louisville FC have launched a Social Justice Library. This is a collection of materials — books, documentaries, and recordings — carefully selected and curated by the Diversity, Inclusion and Opportunity Committee to provide new and in-depth learning opportunities.
As the Social Justice Library expands, we hope to make these materials available for free to our community as well. Please see current selections below:
- Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class – Ian Haney Lopez
- Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy – Darryl Pinckney
- From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America – Elizabeth Hinton
- Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race – Beverly Daniel Tatum
- The Clapback: Your Guide To Calling Out Racist Stereotypes – Elijah Lawal
- How To Be An Anti-Racist – Ibram X. Kendi
- Me and White Supremacy – Layla F. Saad
- Autobiography of Malcom X
- I Am Not Your Negro – James Baldwin
- The New Jim Crow. – Michelle Alexander
All of these materials were purchased from Black-owned bookstores. Please visit them to help expand your own personal education on social and racial subjects.
TESTIMONIALS
Pat denbow
How to be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
“Racism is not a natural human thought. It’s a constructed one created by those who have wealth and/or power to gain. To become antiracist is to see through these motives and get back to believing in how things should be: We are all the same.”
EIMAN ZUBERI
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
“This book touches on the hard realization that racism isn’t something that is simply learned- it is embedded within our cultures, our schools, our workplace. We all have our own inner biases and to overcome those, it’s about unlearning what you may have subconsciously observed your whole life.”
Terrence Spence
Dog Whistle Politics by Ian Haney Lopez
“I learned about the actual meaning of dog whistle when a politician says one thing that appeals to the middle class and also weakening minority resources but in actuality the politician has a different agenda that’ll widen the gap between classes in society. The different examples used and the details over the years has been very eye opening.”
George Davis IV
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
“The New Jim Crow is an eye-opening journey into the impact of mass incarceration and its effects on the African American community. The denial of basic human and civil rights is explained through the comparison of slavery, Jim Crow laws, the civil rights movement, and into the prison industrial complex that we see today. Our perception of prison and the so-called criminals that occupy them are not always what they may seem. Chilling at times, but very informative.”