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To better understand behavioral economics and bias read: 

1. Thinking Fast and Slow by Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman
2. Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

The belief that race is genetic is ingrained in our culture. Classifying people by physical appearance is harmful and rooted in white supremacy. 

1. The AAPA 2019 Statement on Race and Racism
2. Dorothy Roberts’ book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century
3. Dorothy Roberts’ TED talk: The Problem with Race-Based Medicine 
4. Code Switch podcast: Is Race Science Making a Comeback

To better understand how saying “I don’t see color” ignores the reality of racism consider the following resources. 

1. Colorblind by Tim Wise
2. I’m Still Here by Austin Brown
3. The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority by Ellen Wu
4. When Race Becomes Real Edited by Bernestine Singley
5. How to Be Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
6. Disintegration by Eugene Robinson
7. Between the World and Me by Ta Nehisi Coates
8. Jane Elliott 
   

To address the belief that the playing field is free of systemic racism and outcomes are determined only by choices, consider these references.

1. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
2. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
3. The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America by Lani Guinier

To understand the difference between safe conversations and comfortable conversations about race consider the following references.

1. So You want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
2. Courageous Conversations by Glenn Singleton
3. White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

To better understand how outcomes are more important than intention in addressing racism read the following books.

1. Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt
2. Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington
3. Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald

To appreciate how the justice system is not colorblind consider the following books.

1. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
2. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
3. No Equal Justice by David Cole

To better understand how those being oppressed, those without power, ultimately rely on those with power to change the system, refer to the following books.

1. The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
2. I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
3. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble