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books and ebooks from our catalog
Addressing Environmental and Food Justice Toward Dismantling the School-To-Prison Pipeline
by
Anthony J. Nocella II (Editor); K. Animashaun Ducre (Editor); John Lupinacci (Editor)
ISBN: 1137508221
Publication Date: 2016-11-10
African American Identity
by
Jas M. Sullivan; Ashraf Esmail
ISBN: 9780739171752
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Afrofuturism 2.0 : the rise of astro-blackness
ISBN: 9781498510516
Disability Incarcerated
by
Angela Y. Davis (Foreword by); L. Ben-Moshe (Editor); C. Chapman (Editor); A. Carey (Editor)
ISBN: 9781137388476
Publication Date: 2014-05-29
The Everyday Language of White Racism
by
Jane H. Hill
ISBN: 9781444304749
Publication Date: 2009-01-30
The habits of racism : a phenomenology of racism and racialized embodiment
ISBN: 1498534651
Microaggressions and modern racism : endurance and evolution
by
Charisse C. Levchak
ISBN: 3319703323
Racism
by
Ali Rattansi
ISBN: 9780191517310
Publication Date: 2007-03-01
In our local collection:
How to Succeed in Business Without Being White
by
Earl G. Graves; Wes Smith
ISBN: 0887308082
Publication Date: 1997-03-01
Black Pioneers
by
John W. Ravage
ISBN: 0874805465
Publication Date: 1997-12-01
Black American Prose Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
by
Harold Bloom (Introduction by)
ISBN: 079102203X
Publication Date: 1994-04-01
Black Looks
by
bell hooks
ISBN: 0896084345
Publication Date: 1999-07-01
The Habit of Surviving
by
Kesho Yvonne Scott
ISBN: 0813516463
Publication Date: 1991-05-01
When and Where I Enter
by
Paula J. Giddings
ISBN: 0688146503
Publication Date: 2007-02-27
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America
by
Manning Marable
ISBN: 0896081656
Publication Date: 1983-01-01
Feminist Theory
by
bell hooks
ISBN: 0896082210
Publication Date: 1984-10-01
Bad Blood
by
James H. Jones
ISBN: 0029166705
Publication Date: 1981-05-01
articles
'Am I racist?' You may not like the answer
27 Things White People Should Never Say To Their Black Colleagues
75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice
100 years after the Tulsa Race Massacre, lessons from my grandfather
Accidental Racists and More: A Field Guide to the Racists of America
The Afro-Latino Story of Latino Anti-Blackness
Anti-blackness in the Latinx community
Anti-Racist Reading List curated by Ibrahim X. Kendi
As Non-Black POC, We Need to Address Anti-Blackness
Black joy is resistance: Why we need a movement to balance Black triumph with trials
Black Lives Matter: From social media post to global movement
The brutal trade in enslaved people within the US has been largely whitewashed out of history
Capitol siege raises questions over extent of white supremacist infiltration of US police
The Case for Reparations
Century-old racist US Supreme Court cases still rule over millions of Americans
The Characteristics Of White Supremacy Culture
Dear anti-racist allies: Here's how to respond to microaggressions
Disabled People Of Color Struggle To Be Heard
The Economist Placing Value on Black Women’s Overlooked Work
Excellence Ain't Equal
The Greatest White Privilege Is Life Itself
A History of the American Public Library
How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America
How Latinx People Can Fight Anti-Black Racism in Our Own Culture
How Protests Change Parties and Elections
How slave labor built and financed major U.S. cities
How Surveillance Has Always Reinforced Racism
How The Police See Issues Of Race And Policing
Intersectionality explained: Meet Kimberlé Crenshaw
Is It Time To Say R.I.P. To 'P.O.C.'?
Is Slavery an Evil Beyond Measure?
It Does Not Matter If You Are Good
I’m Black and Latinx—What Do You Do When Neither Term Fits?
Let’s Talk About Anti-Blackness
The Literature of White Liberalism
The NYT 1619 Project
Racial stereotypes drive students of color away from STEM, but many still persist
Reading List by Abolitionist Futures
Save the Tears: White Woman's Guide
Showing Up For Racial Justice - White Privilege
Want evidence of systemic racism? Look to public health.
Welcome To The Anti-Racism Movement — Here’s What You’ve Missed
We Need Black Joy More Than Ever
What is intersectionality, and what does it have to do with me?
Where Change Started
White Guyde To The Galaxy
Women's Activism Is Black Activism: Librarians dig into the history of women’s activism in the profession
The Work Is Not The Workshop: Talking and Doing, Visibility and Accountability in the White Anti-Racist Community
You’re More Racist Than You Think: How Your Mental Biases Perpetuate Racism And How To Fix Them
Current events
Abstract appeals to free speech won’t solve the debate surrounding Confederate monuments—it’s a political question
An American Uprising: Who, really, is the agitator here?
Column: How Columbus Police And University Administrators Proved Not All Crimes Are Seen As Equal
Major police reform remains elusive under Biden's executive order
On The 99th Anniversary Of The Tulsa Race Massacre, America Still Has A Long Way To Go
The Police Have Been Spying on Black Reporters and Activists for Years. I Know Because I’m One of Them.
Police killings of civilians in the US have been undercounted by more than half in official statistics
Police Violence Represents Decades of Failed Leadership
The Science of Justice: Race, Arrests, and Police Use of Force
A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 'Fed Up'-rising
What Is Qualified Immunity, and What Does It Have to Do With Police Reform?
White supremacy is the root of all race-related violence in the US
Why You Need to Stop Saying "All Lives Matter"
Two years after Floyd’s death, little movement on police reform in Washington
books
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
by Paul Ortiz
America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
by Jim Wallis
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Black Marxism The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
by Cedric J. Robinson
Blinded by the Whites: Why Race Still Matters in 21st-Century America
by David H. Ikard
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
by Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald
Color-blind Racism
by Leslie Carr
The Color of Compromise
by Jemar Tisby
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
by Richard Rothstein
The Condemnation of Blackness Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
by Gilbert King
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
By Jonathan M. Metzl
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
By Dorothy Roberts
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
The Fire This Time
by Jesmyn Ward
The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism
by Debra Van Ausdale & Joe R. Feagin
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
by Mumia Abu-Jamal
How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
How We Fight White Supremacy A Field Guide to Black Resistance
by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
by Austin Channing Brown
I Didn't Know I Was Black Until You Told Me
by Thomas Kirst
Killing Rage: Ending Racism
by bell hooks
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
by Layla F. Saad
Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
by Derald Wing Sue
Mindful Of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
by Ruth King
My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
by Janet Mock
Negroland: A Memoir
By Margo Jefferson
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age Of Color Blindness
by Michelle Alexander
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit From Identity Politics
by George Lipsitz
The Pretty One
by Keah Brown
The Psychology of Racial Colorblindness
by Phil Mazzocco
Racism Without Racists
by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
by Audre Lorde
So You Want To Talk About Race
by Ijeoma Oluo
The Street
by Ann Petry
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement
by Wesley Lowery
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
by Paul Kivel
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
by Ira Katznelson
Whistling Vivaldi
by Claude M. Steele
White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White
by Daniel Hill
White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
by Kevin Kruse
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by Robin DiAngelo
White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945
by Thomas A. Guglielmo
White Trash: The 400 Year Untold History of Class in America
by Nancy Isenberg
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
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