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Adult Books
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It is impossible to list all the books related to this subject, so below is an exhaustive list. For more suggestions, here are several websites:
Critical Race Theory Booklist on GoodreadsAn Essential Anti-Racist Reading List provided by VOGUE -
The following books are the most often cited in books in looking to expand your horizons in diversity.The Fire Next Time – James BaldwinThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Michelle AlexanderThe Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration – Isabel WilkersonHow to Be an Antiracist – Ibram X. KendiJust Mercy – A Story of Justice and Redemption – Bryan StevensonMe and White Supremacy - Layla F. SaadBetween the World and Me - Ta-Hehisi CoatesSister Outsider – Aurde LordeTheir Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neal HurstonWhite Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People to Talk About Racism – Robin DiangeloSo You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma OluoBlack Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Power of Empowerment - Patricia Hill Collins (2008)Citizen: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine (2014)Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower - Dr. Brittney CooperI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou\I’m Still Here: Black. Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness - Austin Channing BrownThe Bluest Eye – Toni MorrisonThe Hate U Give – Angie ThomasWhen Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America – Ira KatznelsonWhen They Call you a Terrorist – Patrisse Kahn-Cullors & Asha BandeleWhite Rage – Carol AndersonWhy Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race – Beverly Daniel TatumWhy I’m No Longer Talking to White People – Reni Eddo-Lodge
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Below is a long list of many more books:
A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son - Sergio TroncosoA Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature - Jacqueline GoldsbyAbolition Democracy: Beyond Empires, Prisons, and Torture - Angela DavisAll About Love - Bell HooksAmerica’s Original Sin – WallisAmericanah - Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieAn Indigenous Peoples History or the United States – Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizAre Prisons Obsolete? - Angela DavisAssata Shakur: An Autobiography - Assata ShakurAventura, Amor y Tacos: The Path to Reconnecting with the Motherland - Maira HernándezBiased - Dr. Jennifer EberhardtBlack Skin, White Masks – Frantz FanonBlindspot - Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. GreenwaldBorn a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor NoahBrutal Imagination - Cornelius EadyCharleston Syllabus - Chad Williams, Kidada E. Williams, Keisha N. BlainChinese in America - Iris ChangCourageous Conversations About Race - Glenn SingletonEmergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds - Adrienne Maree BrownFreedom is a Constant Struggle – Angela Y. DavisFrom #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation - Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorGirl, Woman, Other - Bernardine EvaristoGood Talk – Mira JacobHave Black Lives Ever Mattered? - Mumia Abu-JamalHeavy: An American Memoir - Kiese LaymonHood Feminism: Notes from the Women a Movement Forgot - Mikki KendallHow Does it Feel to be a Problem – Mustafa BayoumiHow to Be Less Stupid About Race - Crystal FlemingI Am Not Your Negro - James Baldwin (Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson)Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color - Andrea J. RitchieMindful of Race – Ruth KingMinor Feelings – Cathy Park HongMonster - Walter Dean MyersMouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations – Toni MorrisonMy Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - Resmaa MenakemNative Son – Richard WrightNever Caught - Erica Armstrong DunbarOne Person, No Vote - Carol AndersonOpen Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent - Eduardo GaleanoRace Against Time: A Reporter Reopens The Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era - Jerry MitchellRace Matters - Cornel WestRace Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence - Derald Wing SueRaising Our Hands - Jenna ArnoldRaising White Kids: Bringing Up Children In A Racially Unjust America - Jennifer HarveyRedefining Realness - Janet MockRingside Seat to the Revolution - David Dorado RomoSeparated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid - William LopezStamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America - Ibram X. KendiStamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award Winner Stamped from the Beginning - Ibram X. Kendi and Jason ReynoldsSulwe – Lupita Nyong’OSwing Time – Zadie SmithThe African American and LatinX History of the United States – Paul OrtizThe Broken Heart of America - Walter JohnsonThe Color of Law - Richard RothsteinThe Condemnation of Blackness - Khalil Gibran MuhammadThe Invisible Man – Ralph EllisonThe Legacy of Trauma: Context of African American Existence - Brandon JonesThe Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century - Grace Lee BoggsThe Nickel Boys - Colson WhiteheadThe Underground Railroad - Colson WhiteheadThe Water Dancer – Ta-Nehisi CoatesThey Were Her Property - Stephanie E. Jones-RogersThis Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action and Do the Work - Tiffany JewellThis Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color - Cherríe MoragaUnapolegtic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements - Charlene CarruthersWaking Up White - Debby IrvingWe Were Eight Years in Power - Ta-Nehisi CoatesWhen I Was Puerto Rican - Esmeralda SantiagoWhistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do - Claude M. SteeleWhite Innocence - Gloria WekkerWilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy - David ZucchinoWomen, Race, and Class – Angela DavisWorks by W.E.B. Du Bois
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