The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Also available as an e-book.
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, 2017. Also available to stream in the Feature Films for Education Database.
Americanah by Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 2013.
The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club) by Colson Whitehead, 2016.
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) by Colson Whitehead, 2016.
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid, 1997
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward, 2017.
Kindred by Octavia Butler, 1988.
Mulberry by Paulette Boudreaux, 2015.
Erasure by Percival Everett, 2001.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, 1995. (originally published in 1952)
Native Son by Richard Wright, 1900.
Beloved by Toni Morrison, 1987.
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, 2016.
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, 1998.
Corregidora by Gayl Jones, 1986.
Dogwhistles and Figleaves : How Manipulative Language Spreads Racism and Falsehood by Jennifer Saul, 2024.
The Last Plantation : Racism and Resistance in the Halls of Congress by James R. Jones, 2024.
The Streets Belong to Us : sex, race, and police power from segregation to gentrification by Anne Gray Fischer, 2022.
Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss by Juliet Hooker, 2023.
The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights by Thomas C. Holt, 2021.
All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: hope—and hard pills to swallow—about fighting for black lives by Andre Henry, 2022.
Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race, 2nd ed. by Halley, Jean O'Malley, Eshleman, Amy, and Vijaya, Ramya Mahadevan, 2022.
Race after Technology: abolitionist tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin, 2019.
The 1619 Project created by Nikole Hannah-Jones, et. al, 2021.
Affirmative Acts: political essays by June Jordan, 1998.
Algorithms of Oppression: how search engines reinforce racism by Safiya Umoja Noble, 2018.
The American Dream for Students of Color: Myths and Barriers to Educational Success by Gretchen Givens Generett; Amy M. Olson, 2021.
American Ideas of Equality: A Social History, 1750 - 2020 by Carl L. Bankston, 2021.
The Angela Y. Davis Reader by Joy James, 1998.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley, 1992.
Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation by Ebony Omotola McGee, 2020.
Blackballed: the black and white politics of race on America's campuses by Lawrence Ross, 2016.
Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics by Louis M. Maraj, 2020.
Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, 2020.
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby, 2003.
Evicted: poverty and profit in the American city by Matthew Desmond, 2016.
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, 1963.
The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward, 2016.
The Making of White American Identity by Ron Eyerman, 2022.
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, 2016.
Hard White: the mainstreaming of racism in American politics by Richard C. Fording and Sanford F. Schram, 2020.
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal, 2017.
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America by Manning Marable, 2015.
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, 2019.
It Was All a Dream: a new generation confronts the broken promise to Black America by Reniqua Allen, 2019.
Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks, 1995.
Medical Apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present by Harriet A. Washington, 2007.
Racism Without Racists: color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in America, 6th ed. by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, 2022.
The New Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness by Michelle Alexander, 2010.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, 1993.
Racial Microaggressions: using critical race theory to respond to everyday racism by Solarzano and Huber, 2020.
Racism and Gay Men of Color: living and coping with discrimination by Sulaimon Giwa, 2022.
Racism in American Public Life: A Call to Action by Johnnetta B. Cole, 2021.
Retail Racism: Shopping While Black and Brown in America by Michelle Dunlop, 2021.
Selected Writings on Race and Difference by Stuart Hall, 2021.
Sickening: anti-Black racism and health disparities in the United States by Anne Pollock, 2021.
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois, 2003 ( first published 1903).
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo, 2019.
Stamped from the Beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi, 2016.
Under The Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of our Nation by Linda Villarosa, 2022.
The Sum of Us: What racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together by Heather McGhee, 2021.
Unmuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice by Myisha Cherry, 2019.
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America by Keisha N. Blain, 2021.
The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race and Ignorance by Alison Bailey, 2021.
White Evangelical Racism: The Politics and Morality in America by Anthea Butler, 2021.
White Fragility: Why its so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin Diangelo, 2018.
White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America Creator by Margaret A. Hagerman, 2018.
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise, 2011. Also available on DVD.
White Rage: the unspoken truth of our racial divide by Carol Anderson, 2016.
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly D. Tatum, 2003.
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter, 2021.
Rich Thanks to Racism: how the ultra-wealthy profit from racial injustice by Jim Freeman, 2021.
Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap in America's Classrooms by Tyrone C. Howard, 2020.
Witnessing Whiteness : The Journey into Racial Awareness and Antiracist Action by Shelly Tochluk, 2022.
Thinking Race: Social Myths and Biological Realities by Richard A. Goldsby and Mary Catherine Bateson, 2019.
Getting Smart about Race: An American Conversation by Margaret L. Andersen, 2021.
Unraveling Bias: How Prejudice Has Shaped Children for Generations and Why it's Time to Break the Cycle by Christia Spears Brown, 2021.
The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy by Raul Perez, 2022.
Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope by Victoria Reyes, 2022.
Diversity Matters: The Color, Shape, and Tone of Twenty-First Century Diversity by Emily Allen Williams, et al., 2021.
Crystal Marie Fleming, author of "How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide", offers a curated reading list examining how systemic racism has been deeply entrenched within our economic system, social and political institutions, public policies, and cultural symbols.
#CharlestonSyllabus is a crowdsourced list of reading recommendations relating to the history of racial violence in the United States. It was created in response to the race-motivated violence in Charleston, South Carolina on the evening of June 17, 2015, when Dylann Roof opened fire during a Bible study session at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, killing 9 people.
#FergusonSyllabus is a crowdsourced syllabus about race, African American history, civil rights, and policing. Dr. Marcia Chatelain, assistant professor of history at Georgetown University, created the hashtag #fergusonsyllabus so that educators could have a platform to discuss the national crisis in Ferguson, Missouri sparked by the police killing of Michael Brown in August, 2014.
Formerly known as the Ferguson Reads List, this reading list is intended to provide some
history and context to the protests in 2020.
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Recommended reading list of older books from Charis Books, Atlanta, GA. Check OneSearch to see if we have them!
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