Discussing Racism: a Curated Reading List for Teens and Adults
March. Book one by John Lewis
Stony the road : Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates
Five days : the fiery reckoning of an American city by Wes Moore
A wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson
Citizen : an American lyric by Claudia Rankine
America's original sin : racism, white privilege, and the bridge to a new America by Jim Wallis
The fire this time : a new generation speaks about race by Jesmyn Ward
They can't kill us all : Ferguson, Baltimore, and a new era in America's racial justice movement by Wesley Lowery
Sing, unburied, sing : a novel by Jesmyn Ward
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? : and other conversations about race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo
All American boys by Jason Reynolds
The Underground Railroad : a novel by Colson Whitehead
Piecing me together by Renée Watson
The hate u give by Angie Thomas
How I resist : activism and hope for a new generation by Maureen Johnson
The color purple by Alice Walker
I'm still here : Black dignity in a world made for whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
White teeth : a novel by Zadie Smith
Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
White fragility : why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin J DiAngelo
The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee
The black and the blue : a cop reveals the crimes, racism, and injustice in America's law enforcement by Matthew Horace
We rise, we resist, we raise our voices by Wade Hudson
Dream country by Shannon Gibney
There will be no miracles here by Casey Gerald
We are not yet equal : understanding our racial divide by Carol Anderson
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Genesis begins again by Alicia Williams
We cast a shadow : a novel by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Biased : uncovering the hidden prejudice that shapes what we see, think, and do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
We live for the we : the political power of Black motherhood by Dani McClain
Dying of whiteness : how the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland by Jonathan Metzl
The bluest eye : a novel by Toni Morrison
The lines between us : two families and a quest to cross Baltimore's racial divide by Lawrence Lanahan
Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption by Bryan Stevenson
The color of law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Tears we cannot stop : a sermon to white America by Michael Eric Dyson
Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America by Ibram X Kendi
The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration by Isabel Wilkerson
How to be an antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Between the world and me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Trouble maker for justice : the story of Bayard Rustin, the man behind the March on Washington by Jacqueline Houtman
Black card : a novel by Chris L Terry
The water dancer : a novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates
One person, no vote : how not all voters are treated equally by Carol Anderson
Our wayward fate by Gloria Chao
Such a fun age : a novel by Kiley Reid
All the days past, all the days to come by Mildred D Taylor
This book is anti-racist : 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell
Riot baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
Me and white supremacy : combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor by Layla F Saad
Stamped : racism, antiracism, and you by Jason Reynolds
The fire next time by James Baldwin
This Is My America by Kim Johnson
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