Books for Adults (Nonfiction): This list includes varied points of discussion and titles suggested by patrons. All material listed is in the library’s collections and can be borrowed.
Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sewell (Hoopla Audio)
The Breakdown of Higher Education: How it Happened, the Damage4 It Does, and What Can be Done by John M. Ellis
Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell
Diversity Delusion by Heather MacDonald
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
Everything You Wanted To Know About Indians But Were Afraid To Ask, by Anton Treuer (Hoopla ebook, Hoopla audio)
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Friends Disappear: The Battle for Racial Equity in Evanston by Mary Barr
Hating Whitey and other Progressive Causes by David Horowitz (Hoopla Audio)
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Hoopla audio)
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Lies my Teacher Told Me, by James Loewen (Hoopla ebook, other Hoopla ebook edition)
Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
The Making of Asian America, by Erika Lee (Hoopla audio)
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad (Hoopla)
Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation, by Derald Wing Sue
Progressive Racism by David Horowitz
A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn (Hoopla)
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America, Fifth Edition, by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (Hoopla audio)
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock (Hoopla audio)
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde (Hoopla audio)
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (Hoopla audio)
Substance and Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Hope by Jelani Cobb
The Age of Entitlement: America since the Sixties by Christopher Caldwell
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The war on Cops: How the New Attach on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe by Heather MacDonald
Vision of the Anoinated: Self –Congratulations as a Basis for Social Polcy (Hoopla Audio)
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson (Hoopla audio)
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
White Guilt: How Blacks and White Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era by Shelby Steeel (reprint of often cited work)
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: and Other Conversations about Race, by Dr. Beverly Tatum
Articles to Read:
Advancing Racial Equality in the Public Library https://www.racialequityalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/GARE_LibrariesReport_v8_DigitalScroll_WithHyperlinks.pdf
“America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists
How Libraries Are Indoctrinating Kids To Think All White People Are Racists https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/19/how-libraries-are-indoctrinating-kids-to-think-all-white-people-are-racists/
”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
https://1776unites.org/essays/ A series of Essays by African-American thinkers providing counterpoint to the 1619 project
The Combahee River Collective Statement
“The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
The National Museum of the American Indian Education Office. Native Knowledge 360 Framework for Essential Understandings about American Indians.
The Sentencing Project, Report to the United Nations on Racial Disparities in the U.S. Criminal Justice System, April 19, 2018
Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
Tribal Nations and the United States: An Introduction, developed by the National Congress of American Indians
”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
“Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
Films and Series to Watch
America After Ferguson
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Oregon
Copwatch: An Organization Dedicated to Filming the Police
Every Mother’s Son: Policing and Race in America
I Am Not Your Negro
Let the Fire Burn: Tragedy in Philadelphia
Peace Officer: The Militarized State of American Police
Policing the Police by Jelani Cobb (screenwriter)
Profiled: The Mothers of Murdered Black and Latino Youth
P.S. I Can’t Breathe: Black Lives Matter
When Justice Isn’t Just: Unarmed Police Incidents
Videos to Watch:
Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
“How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion” | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
Podcasts to Subscribe To:
1619 (New York Times)
About Race
Code Switch (NPR)
Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
Seeing White
