Anti-racist Reading List

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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents By Isabel Wilkerson Cover Image

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)

By Isabel Wilkerson
$32.00
ISBN: 9780593230251
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Published: Random House - August 4th, 2020
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century By Timothy Snyder Cover Image

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)

By Timothy Snyder
$9.99
ISBN: 9780804190114
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Published: Crown - February 28th, 2017
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals By Saidiya Hartman Cover Image

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (Paperback)

By Saidiya Hartman
$17.95
ISBN: 9780393357622
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - January 14th, 2020
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness By Michelle Alexander Cover Image

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Paperback)

By Michelle Alexander
$18.99
ISBN: 9781620971932
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Published: New Press - January 7th, 2020
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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays By Damon Young Cover Image

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays (Paperback)

By Damon Young
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062684318
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Published: Ecco - January 14th, 2020
We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival By Jabari Asim Cover Image

We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival (Paperback)

By Jabari Asim
$17.00
ISBN: 9781250174536
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Published: Picador - October 16th, 2018
Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems By Robin Coste Lewis Cover Image

Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems (Paperback)

By Robin Coste Lewis
$21.00
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ISBN: 9781101911204
Published: Knopf - November 21st, 2017
Citizen: An American Lyric By Claudia Rankine Cover Image

Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)

By Claudia Rankine
$20.00
ISBN: 9781555976903
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Published: Graywolf Press - October 7th, 2014
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An American Sunrise: Poems By Joy Harjo Cover Image

An American Sunrise: Poems (Hardcover)

By Joy Harjo
$25.95
ISBN: 9781324003861
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - August 13th, 2019
Friday Black By Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Cover Image

Friday Black (Paperback)

By Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
$14.99
ISBN: 9781328911247
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Published: Mariner Books - October 23rd, 2018
The Underground Railroad: A Novel By Colson Whitehead Cover Image

The Underground Railroad: A Novel (Paperback)

By Colson Whitehead
$16.95
ISBN: 9780345804327
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Published: Anchor - January 30th, 2018
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy By Ta-Nehisi Coates Cover Image

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Paperback)

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
$18.00
ISBN: 9780399590573
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Published: One World - October 30th, 2018
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Cover Image

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow (Paperback)

By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
$20.00
ISBN: 9780525559559
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Published: Penguin Books - April 7th, 2020
The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea By Christopher J. Lebron Cover Image

The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea (Paperback)

By Christopher J. Lebron
$19.95
ISBN: 9780190910754
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - October 1st, 2018
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race By Reni Eddo-Lodge Cover Image

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Paperback)

By Reni Eddo-Lodge
$18.00
ISBN: 9781635572957
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - March 5th, 2019
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir By Patrisse Cullors, asha bandele, Angela Davis (Foreword by) Cover Image

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)

By Patrisse Cullors, asha bandele, Angela Davis (Foreword by)
$24.99
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ISBN: 9781250171085
Published: St. Martin's Press - January 16th, 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race By Ijeoma Oluo Cover Image

So You Want to Talk About Race (Paperback)

By Ijeoma Oluo
$16.99
ISBN: 9781580058827
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Published: Seal Press - September 24th, 2019
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration By Isabel Wilkerson Cover Image

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Paperback)

By Isabel Wilkerson
$18.95
ISBN: 9780679763888
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Published: Vintage - October 4th, 2011
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom By David W. Blight Cover Image

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Paperback)

By David W. Blight
$22.00
ISBN: 9781416590323
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Published: Simon & Schuster - January 7th, 2020
Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates Cover Image

Between the World and Me (Hardcover)

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
$26.00
ISBN: 9780812993547
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Published: One World - July 14th, 2015
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning By Cathy Park Hong Cover Image

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)

By Cathy Park Hong
$27.00
ISBN: 9781984820365
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Published: One World - February 25th, 2020
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor By Layla Saad, Robin DiAngelo (Foreword by) Cover Image

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)

By Layla Saad, Robin DiAngelo (Foreword by)
$25.99
ISBN: 9781728209807
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Published: Sourcebooks - January 28th, 2020
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America By Ibram X. Kendi Cover Image

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Paperback)

By Ibram X. Kendi
$19.99
ISBN: 9781568585987
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Published: Bold Type Books - August 15th, 2017
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How to Be an Antiracist By Ibram X. Kendi Cover Image

How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)

By Ibram X. Kendi
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525509288
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Published: One World - August 13th, 2019
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism By Dr. Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by) Cover Image

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Paperback)

By Dr. Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by)
$16.00
ISBN: 9780807047415
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Published: Beacon Press - June 26th, 2018
Heads of the Colored People: Stories By Nafissa Thompson-Spires Cover Image

Heads of the Colored People: Stories (Paperback)

By Nafissa Thompson-Spires
$17.00
ISBN: 9781501168000
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Published: 37 Ink - January 22nd, 2019