Right now, many bookstores are selling out of several books on anti-racism. Here’s a list of books to choose if you are finding that you have to wait for your book choice to be in stock.
History and Journalism
Conversations in Black: On Politics, Power and Leadership, Ed Gordon (2020)
55, Underemployed and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Retirement Life, Elizabeth White (2019)
An African American and Latinx History of the United States, Paul Ortiz (2018)
Chokehold: Policing Black Men, Paul Butler (2017)
Memoir
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays, Damon Young (2019)
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
Fiction
Rainbow Milk, Paul Mendez (2020)
The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates (2019)
Children’s and Young Adult
This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell (2020)
Anti-Racist Baby, Ibram X. Kendi (2020)
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi (2020)
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