Anti-Racist Reading

Below you'll find a selection of non-fiction books on topics relating to racial equity. Consider adding these to your reading list, in addition to fiction works by authors of color.

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo

So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo

How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

We are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide by Tonya Bolden

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race, edited by Jesmyn Ward

Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on The American Mind by Harriet A. Washington

The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom by William Still

Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture, and Identity by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness by Michelle Alexander

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

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