Use these links to supplement and complement students’ reading of the work and to increase their overall enjoyment of literature. Challenge them to discern parallel themes, engage through visual and aural stimuli, and delve deeper into the thematic possibilities presented by the title.

Recommended Texts for Pairing

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

• DiAngelo’s book analyzes modern unconscious white supremacy and proposes ideas for how white people can better fight against it.
• Ties into themes on Western Racism and Ambiguity
• White Fragility on SuperSummary

Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony Greenwald

• An accessible psychological study on how good people have damaging subconscious biases.
• Ties into themes on Western Racism and Race in Europe

Native Son by Richard Wright

• Wright’s debut novel explores a Black family living under Jim Crow who express their rage over the racism that keeps them oppressed.
• Ties into themes on Western racism and Psychological Realism
• Native Son on SuperSummary

Other Student Resources

Black Boy by Richard Wright

• Wright’s classic memoir about coming of age in the Jim Crow South and his migration to Chicago.
• Ties into themes on Western Racism and Psychological Racism
• Black Boy on SuperSummary

The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud

• Daoud’s novel reimagines Camus’s The Stranger through this novel about an ostracized Arab man struggling with identity and racism in France.
• Ties into themes on Race in Europe, Ambiguity and Psychological Realism

Beloved by Toni Morrison

• Morrison’s iconic novel that critically analyzes the psychological impacts of white beauty standards on the Black community.
• Ties into themes on Western Racism and Psychological Realism
• Beloved on SuperSummary

Teacher Resources

Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks

• Essays on how to transform classroom space into multicultural practices of freedom
• Ties into themes on Western Racism and teaching through Ambiguity
• Teaching to Transgress on SuperSummary

Race Matters by Cornel West

• Civil Rights activist Cornel West’s book examining how Black and white communities can acknowledge and work through western racism
• Ties into themes on Western Racism