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ANTI-RACISM READING LIST

Have you seen recommendations for books on diversity and anti-racism floating around and are unsure what you should start reading? This reading list provides you with some of the books that are currently available through Kinlaw Library (and books that are coming soon). This list is not exhaustive of the anti-racism books in our collection, but is intended to provide some recommended titles. We want to be a caring and compassionate community, and that starts with listening and becoming informed. If you know of additional resources we should add to our collection, please click "Suggest a Book" on the right-hand menu and let us know!

Dear White Christians
How to Be An Antiracist
Biased
The New Jim Crow
White Awake
The Fire This Time
Dear Church
Between the World and Me
Just Mercy
I Bring the Voices of My People
White Fragility
The Third Reconstruction

Print Books

We have a copy of each title listed below in our physical collection in Kinlaw Library. This is only a small sampling of our collection, so check out our catalog for additional reading. Come in to the library to check out a title or you can request Curbside Checkout to pick up your books on the go.

  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness  (Michelle Alexander)
  • For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights  (Maurice Berger)
  • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness  (Austin Channing Brown)
  • Myths of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism (Rosalind Chou & Joe Feagin)
  • Coming Together in the 21st Century: The Bible's Message in an Age of Diversity  (Curtiss Paul DeYoung)
  • Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America  (Michael Eric Dyson)
  • Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America  (Michael Emerson)
  • Locking Up Our Own  (James Forman)
  • Reconciliation Blues: A Black Evangelical's Inside View of White Christianity  (Edward Gilbreath)
  • Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"  (Zore Neale Hurston)
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God  (Zora Neale Hurston)
  • Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race (Debby Irving)
  • Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips & Suggestions to Make Reconciliation A Reality (Bob & Cindy Joseph)
  • Waiting ’Til The Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America  (Peniel Joseph)
  • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America  (Ibram X. Kendi)
  • Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland  (Jonathan Metzl)
  • The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America  (Khalil Gibran Muhammad)
  • So You Want to Talk About Race  (Ijeoma Oluo)
  • Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity (Paola Ramos)
  • The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America  (Richard Rothstein)
  • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor  (Layla Saad)
  • Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime  (Ron Stallworth)
  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race  (Beverly Tatum)
  • The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism  (Jemar Tisby)
  • Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen (Jose Vargas)
  • The Color Purple  (Alice Walker)
  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Isabel Wilkerson)
  • What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays  (Damon Young)