Primary Sources
LawsHawaii Revised Statutes
[KFH30 1993 A22]
Hawaii Revised Statutes Annotated
Michie’s [KFH30 A4]
West’s [KFH30 A42]Chapter 846 – Hate Crime Reporting
United States Code
[KF62 2000 A2]
Available at SCLLUnited States Code Annotated
[KF65 U5]
Available at SCLL, 2d, 3d, 5thUnited States Code Service
[KF65 U8]
Available at SCLLTitle 18, Part 1, Chapter 13 § 249 – Hate Crime Acts
S.937 – COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, 117th Congress (2021-2022)
Secondary Sources
Treatises at SCLLCivil Rights and Civil Liberties Litigation: Law of Section 1983, 4th ed. v.1-3
[KF1325 C58 N14]
Available at SCLLPolice Misconduct and Civil Rights Law Reports
(Monthly News Report, Current through May 2018)
[KF1307 A93p]
Available at SCLLSection 1983 Litigation in State Courts v.1-2
[KF1325 C58]
Available at SCLLOverview / Resources
- Antiracism Resources – Compiled by Harvard University
- Anti-Racism Resources for All Ages – Compiled by Dr. Nicole A. Cooke
- Center for Anti-Racism
- Racial Justice in the U.S.: Overview – Drake University Law Library
- Resources for Anti-Racism
- Right to Be – Training to end harassment
- State Court Statements on Racial Justice
- Voices for Racial Justice
Articles
- “Not Racist” Is Not Enough: Putting In The Work To Be Anti-Racist – Eric Deggans
- The Fight Against Racism Must Continue – Zara Abrams
Asian American
Organizations and Resources
- Anti-Asian Hate Resources
- Asian American Federation
- Asian Hate Crime and Hate-Bias Incident Resources
- Hate Crimes Resources – National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
Reading List
- Chains of Bablyon: The Rise of Asian America – Daryl J. Maeda
- Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning – Cathy Park Hong
- The Woman Warrior – Maxine Hong Kingston
- Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White – Frank H. Wu
Hawai‘i Specific Resource
Museum
- Talking About Race – National Museum of African American History & Culture
ADDITIONAL Reading Lists
- Anti-Racism Reading List Compiled by Northern Illinois University, Social Justice Education
- Anti-Racism Resources Compiled by Northern University
- BLM Recommended Reading List Compiled by California Judicial Center Library
- Racial Justice in America: Some Reading Recommendations Compiled by The Library at Washington and Lee School of Law
- Racial Justice, Racial Equity, and Anti-Racism Reading List Compiled by Harvard Kennedy School
Government and Justice
- And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice by Derrick Bell
- Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor by Angela J. Davis
- Archy Lee: A California Fugitive Slave Case by Rudolph M. Lapp; Foreword by Shirley Ann Wilson Moore
- Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007. Prepared Under the Direction of the Committee on House Administration of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Office of History and Preservation, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives.
- Black Judges on Justice: Perspectives From the Bench by Linn Washington
- Black, White, and Brown: The Landmark School Desegregation Case in Retrospect by Editors, Clare Cushman and Melvin I. Urofsky; Foreword by William H. Rehnquist.
- Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties and the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, On H.R. 923, June 12, 2007.
- Race Results: Hollywood vs. The Supreme Court: Ten Decades of Racial Decisions and Film by Eileen C. Moore
- The Central Park Five: The Untold Story Behind One of New York City’s Most Infamous Crimes by Sarah Burns
- The Color of the Law: Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South by Gail Williams O’Brien
- Tulsa-Greenwood Race Riot Claims Accountability Act of 2007: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, On H.R. 1995, April 24, 2007.
History
- Barracoon: The Story of the ‘Last Black Cargo’ by Zora Neale Hurston
- Faces at the bottom of the well: The Permanence of Racism by Derrick Bell
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Incarceration
- Death Row U.S.A. Reporter published by NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
- Life in Prison by Stanley “Tookie” Williams and Barbara Cottman
- Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
- Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration by Devah Pager
- No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row by Susan Kuklin
- Smith Goes to Prison: What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America’s Prison Crisis by Jeff Smith and Tim Bartlett
- That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row by Jarvis Jay Masters
- The Death Penalty in Black and White: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides: New Studies on Racism in Capital Punishment by Richard C. Dieter
- Why Are So Many Black Men in Prison? By Demico Boothe
Personal Perspective
- My Vanishing Country: A Memoir by Bakari Sellers
- The House That Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today by Whaneema Lubiano
Racial Divide
- Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Haney Lopez
- Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect by Robert J. Sampson
- The Alchemy of Race and Rights by Patricia J. Williams
- The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabapple
- Two Faced Racism: Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage by Leslie Picca and Joe Feagin
- Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
- White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
- Young, Black, and Male in America: An Endangered Species edited by Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, et al.
Social Protest
- Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester by Derrick Bell
- Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice by Si Kahn
- Ferguson and Faith: Sparking Leadership and Awakening Community by Leah Gunning Francis
Women
- A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
- Dear White Woman, Please Come Home: Hand Me Your Bias, and I’ll Show You Our Connection by Kimberlee Yolanda Williams
- Sister: An African American Life in Search of Justice by Sylvia Bell White and Jody LePage
- The Making Of “Mammy Pleasant”: A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco by Lynn M. Hudson
- This is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman by Ilhan Omar
- This is What I Am by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Last updated: April 22, 2025