Anti-Racist Resource Guide

1.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,045 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 — 37,883 ratings
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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 — 259,693 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,187 ratings
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Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,401 ratings
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Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond 4.31 avg rating — 2,059 ratings
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Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? 4.34 avg rating — 26,842 ratings
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Homegoing
Homegoing
by: Yaa Gyasi
4.47 avg rating — 386,290 ratings
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Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America 3.93 avg rating — 6,475 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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Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody 4.11 avg rating — 5,797 ratings
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism 4.16 avg rating — 170,215 ratings
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Ibram X Kendi, We Need To Talk: About Your 'Antiracist' Book
Ibram X Kendi, We Need To Talk: About Your 'Antiracist' Book 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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So You Want to Talk About Race
So You Want to Talk About Race 4.49 avg rating — 107,277 ratings
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The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America 3.98 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America 4.19 avg rating — 1,215 ratings
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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland 4.11 avg rating — 6,868 ratings
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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America 4.18 avg rating — 5,275 ratings
19.
How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist 4.37 avg rating — 118,330 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,289 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating — 115,155 ratings
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Killing Rage: Ending Racism
Killing Rage: Ending Racism 4.35 avg rating — 2,854 ratings
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Becoming
Becoming 4.44 avg rating — 1,160,607 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 4.47 avg rating — 109,947 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong 3.97 avg rating — 72,725 ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating — 44,181 ratings
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Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses
Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses 4.22 avg rating — 252 ratings
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The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating — 288,112 ratings
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1) 4.46 avg rating — 986,391 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,795 ratings
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Native Son
Native Son 4.04 avg rating — 103,288 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 476,965 ratings
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun 4.34 avg rating — 176,468 ratings
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The Water Dancer
The Water Dancer 4.06 avg rating — 116,575 ratings
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Queenie
Queenie 3.85 avg rating — 154,552 ratings
36.
Giovanni’s Room
Giovanni’s Room 4.34 avg rating — 226,112 ratings
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name 4.40 avg rating — 23,084 ratings
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Real Life
Real Life 3.79 avg rating — 36,470 ratings
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Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements 4.25 avg rating — 2,330 ratings
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No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies
No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies 4.43 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Since I Laid My Burden Down
Since I Laid My Burden Down 4.07 avg rating — 907 ratings
42.
The Other Side of Paradise
The Other Side of Paradise 4.20 avg rating — 2,131 ratings
43.
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America 4.16 avg rating — 2,765 ratings
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The Summer We Got Free
The Summer We Got Free 4.35 avg rating — 1,493 ratings
45.
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective 4.47 avg rating — 4,609 ratings
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment 4.41 avg rating — 5,475 ratings
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism 4.50 avg rating — 18,479 ratings
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Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 117,717 ratings
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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower 4.38 avg rating — 13,757 ratings
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose 4.29 avg rating — 8,252 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,728 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating — 33,018 ratings
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Assata: An Autobiography
Assata: An Autobiography 4.59 avg rating — 29,690 ratings
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Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy
Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy 3.04 avg rating — 27 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 568,960 ratings
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Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States 4.26 avg rating — 3,611 ratings
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) 4.37 avg rating — 19,433 ratings
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America 4.26 avg rating — 3,391 ratings
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Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions
Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions 3.98 avg rating — 885 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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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South 4.13 avg rating — 11,515 ratings
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Student Activism, Politics, and Campus Climate in Higher Education
Student Activism, Politics, and Campus Climate in Higher Education 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor 4.33 avg rating — 30,142 ratings
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Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating — 254,495 ratings