Resources for Racial Justice: Books

• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi 
• This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell and  Aurelia Durand
• We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love 
• Everyday Antiracism by Mica Pollock
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When the Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, et. al.

• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrice Kahn-Cullors
• They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
• I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street by Matt Taibbi
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle : Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
• Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin by Sybrina Fulton
• Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal

• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and The Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie
• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that A Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color ed. by Cherríe L. Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique Morris
• Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis
• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
• A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross 
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

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• Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria E. Anzaldúa
• Another Country by James Baldwin
• An Indigenous People's History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• A Queer History of the United States for Young People by Michael Bronski
• When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by Paula J. Giddings

• We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Lead From The Outside by Stacey Abrams
• Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Stokely Carmicheal
• Black Power: The Politics of liberation by Kwame Ture and Charles V. Hamilton
• To Die For The People by Huey Newton

Novels

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• All-American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
• The Day Tajon Got Shot by the Teen Writers of Beacon House
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• Let Me Hear A Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson
• Daughter by Asha Bandele

Picture books

• Daddy, There’s a Noise Outside by Kenneth Braswell
• Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story About Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano
• A is for Activist By Innosanto Nagara
• AntiRacist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi

Poetry

• Counting Descent by Clint Stone
• Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
• Hummingbirds In The Trenches by Kowndwani Fidel
• Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice by Mahogany L. Browne, illustrated. by Theodore Taylor 

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• A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope ed. Patrice Caldwell
• Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance ed. Bethany C. Morrow
• Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown
• A Good Kind of Trouble by  Lisa Moore Ramée
• This is My America by Kim Johnson
• On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
• Spin by Lamar Giles
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney
• The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
• Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older
• Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann
• Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
• Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert
• Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• The Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
• The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Hadish
• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock

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• Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self by Rebecca Walker
• Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
• No Disrespect by Sister Soulja
• We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party by Mumia Abu-Jamal
• The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice by Anthony Ray Hinton
• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

• The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race ed. by Jesmyn Ward
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• All About Love by bell hooks
• Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

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• Race Matters by Cornell West
• Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
• A Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon
• The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison
• Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge by Richard Delgado

• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
• Some of My Best Friends are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America by Tanner Colby
• Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips
• March: Books One, Two and Three by John Lewis
• In The Shadows of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History by Mitch Landrieu
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
• An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
• Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights by Lawrence Goldstone
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• Reconstruction by Eric Foner
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
• Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
• Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
• Witnessing Whiteness: the Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It by Shelly Tochluk
• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele
• Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
• The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
• Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores by Dominique DuBois Gillard
• Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
• The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mersha Baradaran
• How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America by Manning Marable
• Evicted:  Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

• Race for Profit : How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor