
How To Be An AntiRacist
Ibram X. Kendi
In his memoir, Kendi weaves together an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science--including the story of his own awakening to antiracism--bringing it all together in a cogent, accessible form.
He begins by helping us rethink our most deeply held, if implicit, beliefs and our most intimate personal relationships and reexamines the policies and larger social arrangements we support.
Recommended for: Young Adult +

Stamped
Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped takes you on a race journey and shows you why we feel how we feel, and why the poison of racism lingers. The book also proves that while racist ideas have always been easy to fabricate and distribute, they can also be discredited.
This book shines a light on the many insidious forms of racist ideas--and on ways readers can identify and stamp out racist thoughts in their daily lives.
Recommended for: Young Adult

So you Want to Talk about Race
Ijeoma Oluo
In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to "model minorities" in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.
Recommended for: Young Adults & Adults

The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
Alexander shows that, by targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness.
The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community—and all of us—to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.
Recommended for: Young Adults & Adults

White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo
Robin DiAngelo illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence.
These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.
Recommended for: Adults

An American Sunrise
Joy Harjo
A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land.
Recommended for: Young Adult +

Shapes of Native Nonfiction
Collected Essays By Contemporary Writers
Shapes of Native Nonfiction features a dynamic combination of established and emerging Native writers. Their ambitious, creative, and visionary work with genre and form demonstrate the slippery, shape-changing possibilities of Native stories. Considered together, they offer responses to broader questions of materiality, orality, spatiality, and temporality that continue to animate the study and practice of distinct Native literary traditions in North America.
Recommended for: Young Adults & Adults

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the US
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
In An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them.
Recommended for: Young Adult +

Minor Feelings
Cathy Park Hong
With sly humor and a poet’s searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and female friendship. A radically honest work of art, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche—and of a writer’s search to both uncover and speak the truth.
Recommended for: Young Adults & Adults

Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together
Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about communicating across racial and ethnic divides and pursuing antiracism. These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious. This fully revised edition is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand dynamics of race and racial inequality in America.
Recommended for: Adults & Educators

Pushout
Monique W. Morris
Monique W. Morris chronicles the experiences of Black girls across the country whose intricate lives are misunderstood. They are highly judged—by teachers, administrators, and the justice system. They are degraded by the very institutions in charge with helping them flourish. PUSHOUT exposes a world of confined potential and supports the rising movement to challenge the policies, practices, and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy, unstable, and often unsafe futures.
Recommended for: Adults & Educators

Let's Talk about Race
Julius Lester
I am a story.
So are you.
So is everyone.
Julius Lester says, "I write because our lives are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to see that our lives are the same story. The differences are merely in the details." Mr. Lester shares his own story as he explores what makes each of us special.
Recommended for: Parent's to read to kids

Antiracist Baby
Ibran X. Kendi
Antiracist Baby introduces the youngest readers and the grown-ups in their lives to the concept and power of antiracism. Providing the language necessary to begin critical conversations at the earliest age, Antiracist Baby is the perfect gift for readers of all ages dedicated to forming a just society.
Recommended for: Parent's to read to kids

Little Leaders
Vashti Harrison
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History focuses on 40 black women throughout American history. All of these women contributed very differently to our history: some were scientists, some artists, politicians, pilots, mathematicians, poets, filmmakers, actresses, and so on. No matter what they did, there's one thing all of these women have in common: they're inspirational. These women all did something to make the world a better place for generations of women to come after them.
Recommended for: Parent's to read to kids
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