BOOKS AVAILABLE ON LIBBY AND/OR HOOPLA
ON ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS:
Greta’s Story by Valentina Camerini
Girls Resist! by Kaelyn Rich
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Wade Hudson
Powered by Girl by Lyn Mikel Brown
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics by Donna Brazile
Stay Woke by Tehama Lopez Bunyasi
Dictionary for a Better World by Irene Latham
ON REALITIES OF SYSTEMIC RACISM:
America’s Original Sin by Jim Wallis
Racial Profiling by Alison Marie Behnke
The Lessons of Ubuntu by Mark Mathabane
White Awake by Daniel Hill
Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga
A Colony in a Nation by Chris Hayes
I Am Not Your Negro by Velvet Films Inc. & Raoul Peck
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Divided We Fail by Sarah Garland
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Open Mic by MItali Perkins
Dark Sky Rising by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
ON POLICE, INCARCERATION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE:
Inside the Criminal Mind by Stanton Samenow
Policing the Black Man by Angela J. Davis
I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street by Matt Taibbi
Rethinking Incarceration by Dominique DuBois Gilliard
Until We Reckon by Danielle Sered
Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano
ON BLACK LIVES MATTER AND ANTI-RACISM:
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett
Can I Touch Your Hair? by Irene Latham
AFRICAN-AMERICAN FICTION:
Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown
August Snow by Stephen Mack Jones
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Beloved by Toni Morrison
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
It’s Not All Downhill from Here by Terry McMillan
Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
OTHER BOOKS TO FIND
ON RESTORATIVE JUSTICE:
Making It Right: Building Peace, Settling Conflict by Marilee Peters
ON PROTESTS AND RESISTANCE:
Hands Up! by Breanna J. McDaniel
This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell
Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice by Mahogany L. Browne
ON TALKING ABOUT RACISM:
Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester
Tell Me Who You Are by Winona Guo
ONLINE RESOURCES
A Collection of Anti-Racism Reading Lists
Anti-Racism Resources for White People
Can You Really Teach Colorblindness?
The Periodic Table of African Americans
READING RACISM: CLASSIC BOOK PAIRINGS
WHEN YOU READ THIS PROBLEMATIC CLASSIC, TRY THIS LESSER-KNOWN EXAMPLE ALSO, FOR A DIFFERENT TAKE:
GOOD: The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
BETTER: The Birchbark House series by Louise Erdrich
The Betsy-Tacy series by William Morrow
GOOD: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
BETTER: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
GOOD: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
BETTER: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Dark Sky Rising by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
How It Went Down by Kekla Magoosocia;