From Diversity to Equity: A Recommended Reading List

1.
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider 4.50 avg rating — 918 ratings
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row 4.65 avg rating — 75,661 ratings
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Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating — 254,500 ratings
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Don't Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times
Don't Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times 3.68 avg rating — 633 ratings
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America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America 4.07 avg rating — 1,728 ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America 4.53 avg rating — 37,884 ratings
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“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans 4.11 avg rating — 1,927 ratings
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March: Book One (March, #1)
March: Book One (March, #1) 4.35 avg rating — 56,872 ratings
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Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures 3.96 avg rating — 112,017 ratings
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America 4.32 avg rating — 5,812 ratings
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Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America 4.39 avg rating — 1,962 ratings
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They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement 4.04 avg rating — 4,037 ratings
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Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice 3.87 avg rating — 750 ratings
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On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life 4.31 avg rating — 583 ratings
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Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India 3.80 avg rating — 2,557 ratings
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Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America
Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America 4.10 avg rating — 270 ratings
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Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark
Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark 4.02 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Queeristan: LGBTQ Inclusion in the Indian Workplace
Queeristan: LGBTQ Inclusion in the Indian Workplace 4.03 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Bridges to Heal US: Stories and Strategies for Racial Healing
Bridges to Heal US: Stories and Strategies for Racial Healing 4.41 avg rating — 120 ratings
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The People in the Room: Rabbis, Nuns, Pastors, Popes, and Presidents
The People in the Room: Rabbis, Nuns, Pastors, Popes, and Presidents it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Cognitive Biases Compendium: Explore over 150 Cognitive Biases (with examples) to make better decisions, think critically, solve problems ... more accurately.
The Cognitive Biases Compendium: Explore over 150 Cognitive Biases (with examples) to make better decisions, think critically, solve problems ... more accurately. it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America 4.13 avg rating — 2,018 ratings
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Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric 4.26 avg rating — 50,754 ratings
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Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America 3.96 avg rating — 225 ratings
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We Can Do It: A Community Takes on the Challenge of School Desegregation
We Can Do It: A Community Takes on the Challenge of School Desegregation 4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
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JUDGES: When The Light Lay Still
JUDGES: When The Light Lay Still 3.37 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza 4.33 avg rating — 13,223 ratings
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Dalit Panthers: An Authoritative History
Dalit Panthers: An Authoritative History 4.09 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row 4.65 avg rating — 75,661 ratings
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Information Services to Diverse Populations: Developing Culturally Competent Library Professionals (Library and Information Science Text Series)
Information Services to Diverse Populations: Developing Culturally Competent Library Professionals (Library and Information Science Text Series) 4.11 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions 4.06 avg rating — 686 ratings
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The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition 4.44 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Taking on Diversity: How We Can Move from Anxiety to Respect
Taking on Diversity: How We Can Move from Anxiety to Respect 4.31 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Are Prisons Obsolete? 4.52 avg rating — 28,737 ratings
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Buses Are a Comin'
Buses Are a Comin' 4.50 avg rating — 918 ratings
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A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor
A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor 3.90 avg rating — 912 ratings
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement 4.44 avg rating — 33,949 ratings
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The Education of Kendrick Perkins: A Memoir
The Education of Kendrick Perkins: A Memoir 3.91 avg rating — 241 ratings
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The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege
The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege 3.99 avg rating — 609 ratings
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Feminist, Queer, Crip
Feminist, Queer, Crip 4.39 avg rating — 987 ratings
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The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal
The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal 4.10 avg rating — 3,502 ratings
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The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty (Indigenous Americas)
The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty (Indigenous Americas) 4.31 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Color Matters
Color Matters 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific
Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific 4.37 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States
Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Exile & Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
Exile & Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
by: Eli Clare
4.37 avg rating — 2,482 ratings
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An Examination of Black LGBT Populations Across the United States: Intersections of Race and Sexuality
An Examination of Black LGBT Populations Across the United States: Intersections of Race and Sexuality 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Living a Feminist Life
Living a Feminist Life 4.31 avg rating — 3,181 ratings
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Islamophobia: Understanding Anti-muslim Racism Through the Lived Experiences of Muslim Youth
Islamophobia: Understanding Anti-muslim Racism Through the Lived Experiences of Muslim Youth 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality
Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality 4.57 avg rating — 393 ratings
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An Examination of Latinx LGBT Populations Across the United States: Intersections of Race and Sexuality
An Examination of Latinx LGBT Populations Across the United States: Intersections of Race and Sexuality did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present 4.08 avg rating — 259,699 ratings
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Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture 4.40 avg rating — 55 ratings
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March: Book Two (March, #2)
March: Book Two (March, #2) 4.49 avg rating — 28,882 ratings
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We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future
We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future 4.02 avg rating — 378 ratings
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Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) 3.93 avg rating — 74 ratings
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March: Book Three (March, #3)
March: Book Three (March, #3) 4.64 avg rating — 21,409 ratings
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Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,409 ratings
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The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America
The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America 3.91 avg rating — 472 ratings
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Teaching for Justice: Implementing Social Justice in the LIS Classroom
Teaching for Justice: Implementing Social Justice in the LIS Classroom really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
61.
Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism
Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism 3.83 avg rating — 122 ratings
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How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood
How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood 3.54 avg rating — 391 ratings
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The History of White People
The History of White People 4.07 avg rating — 3,174 ratings
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“I Don’t See Color”: Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege
“I Don’t See Color”: Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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But I Don't See Color: The Perils, Practices, and Possibilities of Antiracist Education
But I Don't See Color: The Perils, Practices, and Possibilities of Antiracist Education it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Invention of the White Race
The Invention of the White Race 4.38 avg rating — 221 ratings
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The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism
The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism 4.18 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Machinery of Whiteness: Studies in the Structure of Racialization
The Machinery of Whiteness: Studies in the Structure of Racialization 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide 4.47 avg rating — 14,603 ratings
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Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs 3.83 avg rating — 362 ratings
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How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon
How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon 3.91 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Men We Reaped: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating — 27,668 ratings
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Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities 3.82 avg rating — 749 ratings
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Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear
Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear 4.03 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Negroland
Negroland 3.62 avg rating — 7,833 ratings
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Queer: A Graphic History
Queer: A Graphic History 3.92 avg rating — 7,150 ratings
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Scapegoating Islam: Intolerance, Security, and the American Muslim
Scapegoating Islam: Intolerance, Security, and the American Muslim really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The State of Race
The State of Race 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism (Nation of Nations, 13)
Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism (Nation of Nations, 13) 4.42 avg rating — 48 ratings
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White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
by: Tim Wise
4.10 avg rating — 5,370 ratings
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Occupied America: A History of Chicanos
Occupied America: A History of Chicanos 4.13 avg rating — 352 ratings
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News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media
News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media 4.21 avg rating — 168 ratings
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The Color Complex: The Politics of Skin Color Among African Americans
The Color Complex: The Politics of Skin Color Among African Americans 4.16 avg rating — 373 ratings
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Race, Incarceration, and American Values (Boston Review Books)
Race, Incarceration, and American Values (Boston Review Books) 4.01 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Is Racism an Environmental Threat?
Is Racism an Environmental Threat? 3.97 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Wedding Portrait
The Wedding Portrait 4.59 avg rating — 97 ratings
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A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law
A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law 4.40 avg rating — 343 ratings
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Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Geography of American Memory: Marked, Unmarked
Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Geography of American Memory: Marked, Unmarked 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence
Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence 4.33 avg rating — 76 ratings
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From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation 4.47 avg rating — 2,325 ratings
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Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America
Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America 3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings