Anti-Racism Resources: Adults and All Ages
Many people have asked how they can learn more and what resources are available. Here are some online resources we have collected, as well as two reading lists; one Non-Fiction and on Fiction.
Racial Equality Resource Guide
Social Justice and Libraries: Anti-Racism (Massachusetts Library System)
Anti-Racism Reading List
Non-Fiction:
- Algorithms of oppression : how search engines reinforce racism / Safiya Umoja Noble
- All you can ever know : a memoir / Nicole Chung
- American like me : reflections on life between cultures / edited by America Ferrera with E. Cayce Dumont
- An indigenous peoples’ history of the United States / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Between the world and me / Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The color of law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America / Richard Rothstein
- The color of success : Asian Americans and the origins of the model minority / Ellen D. Wu
- The fire this time : a new generation speaks about race / edited by Jesmyn Ward
- Heavy : an American memoir / by Kiese Laymon
- How to be an antiracist / Ibram X. Kendi
- Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption / Bryan Stevenson
- The making of Asian America : a history / Erika Lee
- Me and white supremacy : combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor / Layla F. Saad
- The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness / Michelle Alexander
- Racism without racists : color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in America / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
- So you want to talk about race / Ijeoma Oluo
- The souls of yellow folk : essays / Wesley Yang
- Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America / Ibram X. Kendi
- Stay woke : a people’s guide to making all Black lives matter / Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis Watts Smith
- Stony the road : Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow / Henry Louis Gates, Jr
- Tears we cannot stop : a sermon to white America / Michael Eric Dyson
- Waking Up White / Debby Irving
- The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America’s great migration / Isabel Wilkerson
- When they call you a terrorist : a Black Lives Matter memoir / Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele ; with a foreword by Angela Davis
- Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? : and other conversations about race / Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race / Reni Eddo-Lodge
- You can’t touch my hair and other things I still have to explain / Phoebe Robinson
Fiction:
- Americanah / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- An American marriage : a novel / by Tayari Jones
- Behold the dreamers : a novel / Imbolo Mbue
- Binti / Nnedi Okorafor
- The book of lost saints / Daniel José Older
- The care and feeding of ravenously hungry girls / Anissa Gray
- Caucasia / Danzy Senna
- Everfair / Nisi Shawl
- Everything I never told you / Celeste Ng
- For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf : a choreopoem / Ntozake Shange
- Homegoing : a novel / Yaa Gyasi
- How long ’til black future month? / N.K. Jemisin
- Invisible man / Ralph Ellison
- A kind of freedom : a novel / Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
- Kindred / Octavia E. Butler
- The leavers : a novel / Lisa Ko
- The nickel boys : a novel / Colson Whitehead
- Queenie / Candice Carty-Williams
- Red at the bone / Jacqueline Woodson
- The revisioners : a novel / Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
- The round house / Louise Erdrich
- Such a fun age : a novel / Kiley Reid
- The vanishing half / Brit Bennett
- The water dancer : a novel / Ta-Nehisi Coates
- You bring the distant near / Mitali Perkins
