SJPL Recommends: #BlackLivesMatter An Antiracist Reading ListLike this list

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• How to Be An Antiracist

  Kendi, Ibram X,

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  "Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step:…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Me and White Supremacy

  Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

  Saad, Layla F,

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  "Updated and expanded from the original edition, Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stamped From the Beginning

  the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

  Kendi, Ibram X,

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  "Americans like to insist that we are living in a postracial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• So You Want to Talk About Race

  Oluo, Ijeoma,

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  "A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide." -Publisher provided

• Between the World and Me

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi

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  "Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Caste

  the Origins of Our Discontents

  Wilkerson, Isabel,

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  "As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fire Next Time

  Baldwin, James, 1924-1987

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  "A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Four Hundred Souls

  a Community History of African America, 1619-2019

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  "A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sister Outsider

  Essays and Speeches

  Lorde, Audre

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  "Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature." -Publisher provided

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  X, Malcolm, 1925-1965

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  "In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Begin Again

  James Baldwin's America and It's Urgent Lessons for Our Own

  Glaude, Eddie S., Jr., 1968-

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  "Mixing biography--drawn partially from newly uncovered interviews--with history, memoir, and trenchant analysis of our current moment, Begin Again is Glaude's attempt, following Baldwin, to bear witness to the difficult truth of race in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Biased-- Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

  Eberhardt, Jennifer L. (Jennifer Lynn),

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  "From one of the world’s leading experts on unconscious racial bias come stories, science, and strategies to address one of the central controversies of our time" -Publisher provided

• The Black and the Blue

  a Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement

  Horace, Matthew,

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  "Through gut-wrenching reportage, on-the-ground research, and personal accounts from interviews with police and government officials around the country, Horace presents an insider’s examination of archaic police tactics. He dissects some…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Black Women's History of the United States

  Berry, Daina Ramey,

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  "A Black Women's History of the United States is a critical survey of black women's complicated legacy in America, as it takes into account their exploitation and victimization as well as their undeniable and substantial contributions to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bluest Eye

  a Novel

  Morrison, Toni

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  "A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison’s virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing."…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Can We Talk About Race?

  and Other Conversations in An Era of School Resegregation

  Tatum, Beverly Daniel

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  "In this ambitious, accessible book, Tatum examines some of the most resonant issues in American education and race relations: The need of African American students to see themselves reflected in curricula and institutions How unexamined…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Color of Law

  a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

  Rothstein, Richard,

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  "In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation—that is, through…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Condemnation of Blackness

  Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

  Muhammad, Khalil Gibran, 1972-

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  How did we come to think of race as synonymous with crime? A brilliant and deeply disturbing biography of the idea of black criminality in the making of modern urban America, The Condemnation of Blackness reveals the influence this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Conversations in Black

  on Power, Politics, and Leadership

  Gordon, Ed, 1960-

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  "Hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and inspiring, Conversations in Black offers sage wisdom for navigating race in a radically divisive America, and, with help from his mighty team of black intelligentsia, veteran journalist Ed Gordon…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Democracy in Black

  How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul

  Glaude, Eddie S., Jr., 1968-

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  "A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society America's great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more…Read moreRead more of this annotation