Confronting Racism and Social Justice for Adults

Do you want to educate yourself about racism? Here’s a great place to start:

Fiction

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Available as a book or eBook.

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
Available as a book or eBook.

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Available as a book or eBook.

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Available as a book or eBook.

Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump
Available as a book or eBook.

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Available as a book or eBook.

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Available as a book or eBook.

Beloved by Toni Morrison
Available as a book or eBook.

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Available as a book or eBook.

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Available as a book or eBook.

 

Nonfiction

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Available as a book or eBook.

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Available as a book or eBook.

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Available as a book or eBook.

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Available as a book or eBook.

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Available as a book or eBook.

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt

Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that the Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Open Season: Legal Genocide of Colored People by Ben Crump

Don’t Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times by Irshad Manji

From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans by John Hope Franklin