Anti-racism reading and viewing
Want to learn more about being anti-racist? This list offers reading & viewing suggestions.
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A Good Kind Of Trouble
J FIC Ram |
Me And White Supremacy : Combat Racism, Change The World, And Become A Good Ancestor
305.8 Saa |
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A Good Time For The Truth : Race In Minnesota
305.8 Goo |
Mindful Of Race : Transforming Racism From The Inside Out
294.35 Kin |
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A Is For Activist
BB Nag |
Monster
YA FIC Mye |
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All American Boys
YA FIC Rey |
One Person, No Vote : How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
324.62 And |
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All Are Welcome
E Pen |
Open Season : Legalized Genocide Of Colored People
364.0973 Cru |
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Antiracist Baby
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Piecing Me Together
YA FIC Wat |
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Black Card : A Novel
FIC Ter |
Rosa
JB Par |
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Citizen : An American Lyric
814 Ran |
Selma
Drama |
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Dear Martin
YA FIC Sto |
Sing, Unburied, Sing : A Novel
FIC War |
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Dear White Christian : What Every White Christian Needs To Know About How Black Christians See, Think & Experience Racism In America : Respectfully Written By A Black Christian
277.3083 Lay |
Slavery By Another Name : The Re-enslavement Of Black People In America From The Civil War To World War Ii
305.8 Bla |
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Do The Right Thing
Drama |
So You Want To Talk About Race
305.8 Olu |
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Eloquent Rage : A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
305.488 Coo |
Stamped : Racism, Antiracism, And You
YA 305.8 Rey |
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Fatal Invention : How Science, Politics, And Big Business Re-create Race In The Twenty-first Century
305.8 Rob |
Tears We Cannot Stop : A Sermon To White America
305.8 Dys |
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Friday Black
FIC Adj |
The Black And The Blue : A Cop Reveals The Crimes, Racism, And Injustice In America's Law Enforcement
363.2092 Hor |
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Fruitvale Station
Drama |
The Fire Next Time
305.8 Bal |
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Get Out
Horror |
The Hate U Give
YA FIC Tho |
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God Help The Child
FIC Mor |
The Other Side
E Woo |
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Hair Love
E Che |
The Rock And The River
YA FIC Mag |
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Heavy : An American Memoir
305.896 Lay |
The Story Of Ruby Bridges
JB Bri |
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Hood Feminism : Notes From The Women That A Movement Forgot
305.42 Ken |
They Can't Kill Us All : Ferguson, Baltimore, And A New Era In America's Racial Justice Movement
305.8 Low |
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How To Be An Antiracist
305.8 Ken |
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable
305.8 Ben |
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I Am Enough
E Bye |
We Cast A Shadow : A Novel
FIC Ruf |
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I Am Not Your Negro
323.1196 I am |
We Live For The We : The Political Power Of Black Motherhood
306.8743 McC |
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I'm Still Here : Black Dignity In A World Made For Whiteness
305.896 Bro |
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices
J 305.8 We |
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If Beale Street Could Talk
Drama |
We've Got A Job : The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
J 323.11 Lev |
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Lakewood : A Novel
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White Fragility : Why It's So Hard To Talk To White People About Racism
305.8 DiA |
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Let It Shine : Stories Of Black Women Freedom Fighters
J 920 Pin |
White Rage : The Unspoken Truth Of Our Racial Divide
305.8 And |
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March. Book Three
J 323.1 Lew Book 3 |
Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race
305.8 Edd |
Description: After attending a powerful protest, Shayla starts wearing an armband to school to support the Black Lives Matter movement, but when the school gives her an ultimatum, she is forced to choose between her education and her identity.
Call Number: J FIC Ram
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: Essays that challenge, discomfort, disorient, galvanize, and inspire all of us to evolve now, for our shared future.
Call Number: 305.8 Goo
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: "A is for Activist is an ABC board book written and illustrated for the next generation of progressives: families who want their kids to grow up in a space that is unapologetic about activism, environmental justice, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and everything else that activists believe in and fight for. The alliteration, rhyming, and vibrant illustrations make the book exciting for children, while the issues it brings up resonate with their parents' values of community, equality, and justice. This book carries messages as it inspires hope for the future, and calls children to action while teaching them a love for books"-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: BB Nag
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
Call Number: YA FIC Rey
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text introduce a school where diversity is celebrated and songs, stories, and talents are shared.
Call Number: E Pen
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: Illustrations and rhyming text present nine steps Antiracist Baby can take to improve equity, such as opening our eyes to all skin colors and celebrating all our differences.
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: "In an effort to be "black enough," a mixed-race punk rock musician indulges his own stereotypical views of African American life by doing what his white bandmates call "black stuff." After remaining silent during a racist incident, the unnamed narrator has his Black Card revoked by Lucius, his guide through Richmond, Virginia, where Confederate flags and memorials are a part of everyday life. Determined to win back his Black Card, the narrator sings rap songs at an all-white country music karaoke night, absorbs black pop culture, and attempts to date his black coworker Mona, who is attacked one night. The narrator becomes the prime suspect and earns the attention of John Donahue, a local police officer with a grudge dating back to high school. Forced to face his past, his relationship with his black father and white mother, and the real consequences and dangers of being black in America, the narrator must choose who he is before the world decides for him."--Publisher.
Call Number: FIC Ter
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: Claudia Rankine's new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slight, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV--everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named 'post-race' society--Excerpted from publisher's description.
Call Number: 814 Ran
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
Call Number: YA FIC Sto
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Call Number: 277.3083 Lay
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: Story of the racial tensions that surround a white-owned pizzeria in the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn on the hottest day of the summer. One of the most controversial and thought-provoking films ever made. Bonus material includes commentary with Director Spike Lee and more.
Call Number: Drama
Format: DVD
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: So what if it's true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting.--From dust jacket flap.
Call Number: 305.488 Coo
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Fatal Invention : How Science, Politics, And Big Business Re-create Race In The Twenty-first Century
Call Number: 305.8 Rob
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: By placing ordinary characters in extraordinary situations, Adjei-Brenyah reveals the violence, injustice, and painful absurdities that black men and women contend with every day in this country. These stories tackle urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest, and explore the many ways we fight for humanity in an unforgiving world.
Call Number: FIC Adj
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008. Based on a true story.
Call Number: Drama
Format: DVD
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: A young black man meets his white girlfriend's parents at their estate, only to find out that the situation is much more sinister than it appears.
Call Number: Horror
Format: DVD
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride's mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that "what you do to children matters. And they might never forget."
Call Number: FIC Mor
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: "A little girl's daddy steps in to help her arrange her curly, coiling, wild hair into styles that allow her to be her natural, beautiful self." -- (Source of summary not specified)
Call Number: E Che
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: "Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about the physical manifestations of violence, grief, trauma, and abuse on his own body. He writes of his own eating disorder and gambling addiction as well as similar issues that run throughout his family. Through self-exploration, storytelling, and honest conversation with family and friends, Heavy seeks to bring what has been hidden into the light and to reckon with all of its myriad sources, from the most intimate--a mother-child relationship--to the most universal--a society that has undervalued and abused black bodies for centuries"-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: 305.896 Lay
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: "A collection of essays taking aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement, arguing that it has chronically failed to address the needs of all but a few women"-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: 305.42 Ken
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: "The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it -- and then dismantle it." Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America, pointing us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it. He weaves ethics, history, law, and science together with a personal narrative of his own awakening to antiracism.-- From statement provided by publisher.
Call Number: 305.8 Ken
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: Shares a story of loving who you are, respecting others and being kind to one another.
Call Number: E Bye
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: The author's first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, when her parents told her they named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. She grew up in majority-white schools, organizations, and churches, and has spent her life navigating America's racial divide as a writer, a speaker, and an expert helping organizations practice genuine inclusion. While so many institutions claim to value diversity in their mission statements, many fall short of matching actions to words. Brown highlights how white middle-class evangelicalism has participated in the rise of racial hostility, and encourages the reader to confront apathy and recognize God's ongoing work in the world.
Call Number: 305.896 Bro
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: A timeless love story set in early 1970s Harlem involving newly engaged nineteen-year- old Tish and her fiance Fonny who have a beautiful future ahead. But their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit. Now the pair and their families must fight for justice in the name of love and the promise of the American dream.
Call Number: Drama
Format: DVD
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: "A stunning debut novel that delves fearlessly into the taboo subject of modern-day medical experimentation on African Americans"-- Provided by publisher.
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: Tells the stories of ten African-American women freedom fighters.
Call Number: J 920 Pin
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: Layla Saad began an Instagram that became a cultural movement. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it. Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 80,000 people downloaded the supporting work Me and White Supremacy. Updated and expanded from the original edition, this book teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.-- From statement provided by publisher.
Call Number: 305.8 Saa
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Call Number: 294.35 Kin
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
Call Number: YA FIC Mye
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: Chronicles the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the Supreme Court's 2013 Shelby ruling, which allowed districts to change voting requirments without approval from the Department of Justice.
Call Number: 324.62 And
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: "[Ben Crump] shows that there is a persistent, prevailing, and destructive mindset regarding colored people that is rooted in our history as a slave-owning nation. This biased attitude has given rise to mass incarceration, voter disenfranchisement, unequal educational opportunities, disparate health care practices, job and housing discrimination, police brutality, and an unequal justice system... Open Season is more than Crump's incredible mission to preserve justice, it is a call to action for Americans to begin living up to the promise to protect the rights of its citizens equally and without question."-- Dust jacket flap.
Call Number: 364.0973 Cru
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 4, 2020
Description: Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls.
Call Number: YA FIC Wat
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: Retells the story of Rosa Parks, an African American woman who became the center of the battle for civil rights in the 1950s.
Call Number: JB Par
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
Call Number: Drama
Format: DVD
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: "Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the white father of Leonie's children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise."-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: FIC War
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Call Number: 305.8 Bla
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide. Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word. Positioned to bridge the gap between people of color and white Americans struggling with race complexities, Oluo answers the questions readers don't dare ask, and explains the concepts that continue to elude everyday Americans.-- From statement provided by publisher.
Call Number: 305.8 Olu
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: "The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book takes you on that journey, showing how racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can be discredited"--Dust jacket flap.
Call Number: YA 305.8 Rey
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: Fifty years ago, Malcolm X told a white woman who asked what she could do for the cause, 'Nothing.' Michael Eric Dyson believes he was wrong. Now he responds to that question. If society is to make real racial progress, people must face difficult truths, including being honest about how Black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted.
Call Number: 305.8 Dys
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: Matthew Horace was an officer at the federal, state, and local level for 28 years working in every state in the country. Yet it was after seven years of service when Horace found himself face-down on the ground with a gun pointed at his head by a white fellow officer, that he fully understood the racism seething within America's police departments. Using gut-wrenching reportage, on-the-ground research, and personal accounts garnered by interviews with police and government officials around the country, Horace presents an insider's examination of police tactics, which he concludes is an "archaic system" built on "toxic brotherhood." Horace dissects some of the nation's most highly publicized police shootings and communities highlighted in the Black Lives Matter movement and beyond to explain how these systems and tactics have had detrimental outcomes to the people they serve. Horace provides fresh analysis on communities experiencing the high killing and imprisonment rates due to racist policing such as Ferguson, New Orleans, Baltimore, and Chicago from a law enforcement point of view and uncovers what has sown the seeds of violence. Timely and provocative, The Black and The Blue sheds light on what truly goes on behind the blue line.
Call Number: 363.2092 Hor
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: Contains a letter to Baldwin's nephew on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Also describes his childhood, views on Black Muslims, and his visions.
Call Number: 305.8 Bal
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
Call Number: YA FIC Tho
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: Two girls, one white and one black, gradually get to know each other as they sit on the fence that divides their town.
Call Number: E Woo
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.
Call Number: YA FIC Mag
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.
Call Number: JB Bri
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: A behind-the-scenes account of the #blacklivesmatter movement shares insights into the young men and women behind it, citing the racially charged controversies that have motivated members and the economic, political, and personal histories that inform its purpose.
Call Number: 305.8 Low
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Call Number: 305.8 Ben
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: "In a near-future Southern city, everyone is talking about a new experimental medical procedure that boasts unprecedented success rates. In a society plagued by racism, segregation, and private prisons, this operation saves lives with a controversial method--by turning people white. Like any father, our unnamed narrator just wants the best for his son Nigel, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day. But in order to afford Nigel's whiteness operation, our narrator must make partner as one of the few black associates at his law firm, jumping through a series of increasingly absurd hoops--from diversity committees to plantation tours to equality activist groups--in a tragicomic quest to protect his son. This electrifying, suspenseful novel is, at once, a razor-sharp satire of surviving racism in America and a profoundly moving family story. In the tradition of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, We Cast a Shadow fearlessly shines a light on the violence we inherit, and on the desperate things we do for the ones we love"-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: FIC Ruf
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: Black mothering is an inherently political act. Black women are more likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth than women of any other race; black mothers must stand before television cameras reminding the world that their slain children were human beings. The author explores how to ensure her daughter lives with dignity and joy, learning how to parent boldly in uncertain times and cope with the anxieties that sometimes threaten to consume her. McClain spoke with mothers on the frontlines of movements for social, political and cultural change who are grappling with the same questions.
Call Number: 306.8743 McC
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: What do we tell our children when the world seems bleak, and prejudice and racism run rampant? With 96 lavishly designed pages of original art and prose, fifty diverse creators lend voice to young activists.
Call Number: J 305.8 We
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: Discusses the events of the 4,000 African American students who marched to jail to secure their freedom in May 1963.
Call Number: J 323.11 Lev
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: Educator Robin DiAngelo illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility. Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. DiAngelo explores how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively-- From publisher's description.
Call Number: 305.8 DiA
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
Description: As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as 'black rage,' historian Carol Anderson wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, 'white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames,' she writes, 'everyone had ignored the kindling.' Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains. The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow; the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South while taxpayer dollars financed segregated white private schools; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 triggered a coded but powerful response, the so-called Southern Strategy and the War on Drugs that disenfranchised millions of African Americans while propelling presidents Nixon and Reagan into the White House. Carefully linking these and other historical flashpoints when social progress for African Americans was countered by deliberate and cleverly crafted opposition, Anderson pulls back the veil that has long covered actions made in the name of protecting democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud, rendering visible the long lineage of white rage.--From statement provided by publisher.
Call Number: 305.8 And
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 4, 2020
Description: In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote on her blog about her frustration with the way that discussions of race and racism in Britain were being led by those who weren't affected by it. Her words hit a nerve. The post went viral and comments flooded in from others desperate to speak up about their own experiences. Galvanised, she decided to dig into the source of these feelings. Exploring issues from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Reni Eddo-Lodge has written a searing, illuminating, absolutely necessary examination of what it is to be a person of colour in Britain today.
Call Number: 305.8 Edd
Format: Book
Date Added: Jun 3, 2020
