Suggested Reading List
A curated book list for learning more about systemic anti-Blackness and White privilege.
13 Books to Educate Yourself on Antiracism, According to Black Women
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom (By Bettina L. Love)
Women, Race & Class (By Angela Y. Davis)
Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot
(By Mikki Kendall)
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements (By Charlene A. Carruthers)
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
(By Michelle Alexander)
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down (By Joan Morgan)
Are Prisons Obsolete?
(By Angela Y. Davis)
Sister Outsider
(By Audre Lorde)
How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People
(By D. L. Hughley and Doug Moe)
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
(By Brittney Cooper)
Citizen: An American Lyric
(By Claudia Rankine)
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
(By Austin Channing Brown)
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
(By Saidiya Hartman)
A Black Lives Matter Reading List
How to Be an Antiracist
By Ibram X. Kendi
So You Want to Talk About Race (Paperback)
By Ijeoma Oluo
They Can’t Kill Us All: The Story of the Struggle for Black Lives (Paperback)
By Wesley Lowery
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements (Paperback)
By Charlene Carruthers
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Paperback)
By Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele
On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope (Paperback)
By DeRay Mckesson
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Paperback)
By Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by)
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays (Paperback)
By Damon Young
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
By Layla Saad, Robin Diangelo (Foreword by)
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America (Paperback)
By Jennifer Harvey
Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook (Hardcover)
By Christopher Noxon
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Paperback)
By Michelle Alexander
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Paperback)
By Jordan T. Camp (Editor), Christina Heatherton (Editor)
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International) (Paperback)
By James Baldwin
How Nonviolence Protects the State (Paperback)
By Peter Gelderloos
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
By Claudia Rankine
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States (Paperback)
By Alicia Garza (Foreword by), Maya Schenwar (Editor), Joe Macaré (Editor)
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race (Paperback)
By Jesmyn Ward
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
By Angela Y. Davis, Frank Barat (Editor), Cornel West (Preface by)
From #blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation (Paperback)
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
No Fascist Usa!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements (City Lights Open Media) (Paperback)
By Hilary Moore, James Tracy, Robin D. G. Kelley (Foreword by)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Paperback)
By MALCOLM X, Alex Haley (With)
Full Spectrum Resistance, Volume One: Building Movements and Fighting to Win (Paperback)
By Aric McBay
Full Spectrum Resistance, Volume Two: Actions and Strategies for Change (Paperback)
By Aric McBay
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning (Hardcover)
By Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
Youth Reading List
The Hate U Give Collector’s Edition (Hardcover)
By Angie Thomas
All American Boys (Paperback)
By Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice (Hardcover)
By Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, Ann Hazzard
The Undefeated (Hardcover)
By Kwame Alexander, Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
Antiracist Baby (Board book)
By Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illustrator)
A is for Activist (Board book)
By Innosanto Nagara
