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Racial Equity & Social Justice
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Anti-Racism Books for Children
Book List from Strike for Black Lives
Selected Titles
Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965”, by Kelly Lytle Hernández
Fire Shut Up In My Bones, by Charles M. Blow
Heavy, by Kiese Laymon
Homie, by Danez Smith
How to be an Anti-Racist, by Ibram X. Kendi
How We Fight For Our Lives, by Saeed Jones
Notes of a Native Son, by James Baldwin
NW, by Zadie Smith
Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution and Imprisonment, by Angela Davis
Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco, by Savannah Shange
Race for Profit, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006, (Third Edition 2007), by Manning Marable
Racism: A Short History (2015, original ed. 2002), by George Fredrickson
Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward
Sister Outsider, by Audre Lorde
So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
Stamped From the Beginning, by Ibram X. Kendi
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, by Arlie Hochschild
The African American and Latinx History of the United States, by Paul Ortiz
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (2019), by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
The Economics of Race in the United States, Brendan O'Flaherty
The Karma of Brown Folk, by Vijay Prashad
The Making of Black Lives Matter, by Christopher J. Lebron
The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
The Origin of Others (2017), by Toni Morrison
The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements, by Charlene Carruthers
The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson
When Police Kill, by Franklin E. Zimring
When They Call You a Terrorist, by Patrisse Cullors and Asha Bandele
White Rage, by Carol Anderson