Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America | John McWhorter
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America | Clint Smith
Red, White, and Black: Recusing American History from Revisionists and Race Hustlers | Edited by Robert Woodson
How to Be An AntiRacist | Ibram X. Kendi
There is a lot of content generated in the Critical Theory space. The most insightful, researched, and best tome on the topic is the previously reviewed Cynical Theories by Pluckrose & Lindsay.
Of those above:
Red/White/Black - edited by Civil Rights icon Robert Woodson; this booklet is a haphazard attempt to refute CRT. Half of the chapters are personal testaments to the author’s rise above the challenge, demonstrating via their lived experience the fallacy of some CRT tenants. Some of the more enlightening chapters offer a factual counter-narrative to the fiction of the 1619 Project.
Woke Racism - another fantastic book by McWhorter, who notes the need to view CRT as a religion and its adherents as acolytes. Therefore, he argues no matter how anti-rational and racist their beliefs are - they are doctrinal creeds - and tolerance is the only answer versus persuasion. However, like a religion - an anti-factual creed reliant upon faith in its tenants and not evidence - the state’s separation wall must segregate it from the public square. He also advocates protecting institutions from cult-like destruction.
Kendi’s Anti-Racist - this book advocates a pure racist ideology. It is hate personified. It fulminates intolerance of love, personal responsibility, and individual dignity. Readers are only given the service of understanding the depths of evil rampant in modernity.
How the Word is Passed - Highly recommended, particularly to those who understand the ills of CRT. The author pens a dramatic romp through the under appreciated aspects of America’s past wrongs. While there are objectionable conclusions at times, the perspective is much needed. Given that service to Truth requires we not hide from the blemishes of our past, this book helps bring light to the duality of our nation’s journey in a productive fashion.