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Black Lives Matter - Antiracist Booklist

This anti-racist booklist was created by some of the faculty and staff of the Warner School of Education, along with librarians at the River Campus Libraries.  By clicking on a book image, you'll be taken to the library page to request it.  You can find all of the titles, along with links to videos and news stories here: 

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2514468/anti-racist_resources_ur_resources/library 

If you have questions about this list, please contact Eileen Daly-Boas at edaly@library.rochester.edu.

Antiracist Booklist

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby
Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
Frederick Douglass Project from the University of Rochester
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.
Making Black Scientists by Marybeth Gasman and Thai-Huy Nguyen
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs and Scott Kurashige
Privilege, Power, and Difference by Allan G. Johnson
Racing to Justice by John A. Powell
Racism Without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
This Bridge Called My Back edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
Waking Up White by Debby Irving
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
We Want to Do More Than Survive by Bettina L. Love
When Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo