Do you want to educate yourself about racism? Here’s a great place to start:
Fiction
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Available as a book or eBook.
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
Available as a book or eBook.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Available as a book or eBook.
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Available as a book or eBook.
Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump
Available as a book or eBook.
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Available as a book or eBook.
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Available as a book or eBook.
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Available as a book or eBook.
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Available as a book or eBook.
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Available as a book or eBook.
Nonfiction
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Available as a book or eBook.
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Available as a book or eBook.
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Available as a book or eBook.
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Available as a book or eBook.
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Available as a book or eBook.
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that the Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
Open Season: Legal Genocide of Colored People by Ben Crump
Don’t Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times by Irshad Manji
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans by John Hope Franklin