The following books are available through YDL’s digital collections:
Abu-Jamal, Mumia | Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
ebook on Hoopla
Alexander, Michelle | The New Jim Crow
ebook on Hoopla
Anderson, William & Zoe Samudzi | As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation
ebook on Hoopla
Coates, Ta-Nehisi | Between the World and Me
Davis, Angela | Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson,
Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
eaudio on Hoopla, ebook on Overdrive
DiAngelo, Robin | White Fragility: Why it’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
ebook & eaudio on Overdrive
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne | An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
eaudio on Hoopla
Estes, Nick | Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition
of Indigenous Resistance
eaudio on Hoopla
Fosl, Catherine | Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South
eaudio on Hoopla
Iyer, Deepa | We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future
ebook on Hoopla, ebook on Overdrive
Kendi, Ibram X | How to be an Antiracist
ebook and eaudio on Overdrive
Kendi, Ibram X | Stamped From the Beginning: the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
eaudio on Hoopla
Khan-Cullors, Patrice & Asha Bandele | When They Call You a Terrorist: a Black Lives Matter Memoir
eaudio on Hoopla
King, Ruth | Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism From the Inside Out
ebook and eaudio on Hoopla
McSpadden, Lezley | Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil: the Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown
eaudio on Hoopla, eaudio on Overdrive
Menakem, Resmaa | My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
ebook on Hoopla
Moore, Wes and Erica Green | Five Days: the Fiery Reckoning of an American City
ebook and eaudio on Overdrive
Oluo, Ijeoma | So You Want to Talk About Race
eaudio on Hoopla, eaudio on Overdrive
Reynolds, Jason & Ibram X Kendi | Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You
ebook on Overdrive
Saad, Layla | Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
ebook on Hoopla
Segrest, Mab | Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South
ebook and eaudio on Hoopla
Solomon, Akiba and Kenrya Rankin | How We Fight White Supremacy: a Field Guide to Black Resistance
eaudio on Overdrive
Stevenson, Bryan | Just Mercy: a Story of Justice and Redemption
ebook and eaudio on Overdrive
Wilkerson, Isabel | The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
ebook on Overdrive
Wise, Tim | White Like Me
ebook and eaudio on Hoopla
Yancy, George | Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly About Race in America
eaudio on Hoopla
The following books are not currently available through YDL’s digital collections, but may be requested when YDL reopens or could be purchased locally. Black Stone Bookstore has a wide selection of books about anti-racism and will fill special orders.
Baldwin, James |
The Fire Next Time |
Baldwin, James |
Notes of a Native Son |
Banaji, Manzarian & Anthony Greenwald |
Blind Spot |
Bayoumi, Moustafa |
How Does it Feel to be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America |
Channing-Brown, Austin |
I’m Still Here |
Dyson, Michael Eric |
Tears We Cannot Stop |
Eddo-Lodge, Reni |
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race |
Guo, Winona |
Tell Me Who You Are |
Jacob, Mira |
Good Talk |
Jewell, Tiffany & Aurelia Durand |
This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work |
Ortiz, Paul |
An African-American and Latinx History of the United States |
Park Hong, Cathy |
Minor Feelings |
Porter, Eduardo |
American Poison: How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise |
Rankine, Claudia |
Citizen |
Rothstein, Richard |
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America |
Tatum, Beverly Daniel |
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria |
Wallis, Jim |
America’s Original Sin |
Ward, Jessamyn |
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race |
This list was adapted from Jane Mount’s list on Ideal Bookshelf.