Anti-Racism Reading List

Anti-Racism Reading List

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Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Davis

Women, Race, & Class by Angela Davis

Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Divided Sisters by Midge Wilson & Kathy Russell

Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

Is Prison Necessary? (New York Times, Ruth Wilson Gilmore)

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction by Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

As We Have Always Done by Leanne Beta Simpson

Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

On Intersectionality: Essential Writings by Kimberlé Crenshaw

Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

Citizen by Claudia Rankine

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Banaji Mahzarin and Anthony Greenwald

Recitatif by Toni Morrison

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness by George Lipsicz

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni-Eddo Lodge

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Foreman Jr.

This Bridge Called My Back by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa

Joy/Leisure Reading List:

Americanah by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie

How We Get Free by Keeanga-Yamahhtta Taylor

That Could Be Enough by Alyssa Cole

The Lonely Letters by Ashon Crawley

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Whatever Happened to Interracial Love by Kathleen Collins

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Mannish Tongues by Jayy Dodd

Loving Day by Mat Johnson

The Deep by Rivers Soloman

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Swing Time by Zadie Smith

Ordinary Light by Tracy K. Smith