Anti-Racist Reading List

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An extensive list for those looking to educate themselves further in anti-racist materials and grow as an ally and artist.

FOR THOSE WHO ARE UNABLE TO BUY BOOKS RIGHT NOW:

  • Check out your local library for free e-book downloads! Also, check out WorldCat to search books and items in libraries near you.
  • Free Electronic Libraries, such as Gutenberg.org, are also a great way to search any and all book titles for free e-book versions.
  • Free ebook of Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? from Haymarket Books. Edited by Joe Macaré, Maya Schenwar, and Alana Yu-lan Price. Foreword by Alicia Garza.

STOCK YOUR BOOKSHELVES WITH THIS ANTI-RACIST LIT (via Victoria Alexander on Twitter):

Also, we recommend you buy from one of these independent, black-owned bookstores.

  • White Fragility: Why it’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
  • The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
  • Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy by Darryl Pinckney
  • EVICTED by Matthew Desmond
  • NOBODY by Marc Lamont Hill
  • LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME by James W. Loewen
  • killing rage: ending racism by Bell Hooks
  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
  • The Burning House by Andres Walker
  • The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
  • Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan M. Metzl
  • The Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Gibran Muhammed
  • A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki
  • How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
  • So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  • Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
  • A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
  • The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
  • Becoming by Michelle Obama

Looking for further reading and resources? Check out this Anti-Racist Resource Guide.

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