Resources

Become informed about racial issues and African-American history and culture. Browse through the following titles and select the ones that interest you and that will help expand your knowledge and understanding about the need for racial justice in the United States.

African-American History

African America: Portrait of a People
Estell, Kenneth, ed
Black Genealogy
Blockson, Charles L
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans, 9th ed
Franklin, John Hope, and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Historical and Cultural Atlas of African-Americans
Asante, Molefi K., and Mark T. Mattson
Making a Living: The Work Experiences of African Americans in New England, Selected Readings
Hall, Robert, ed., with Michael M. Harvey
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Kendi, Ibram X.

American History

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
Takaki, Ronald
A People's History of the United States
Zinn, Howard

Biography

The Book of African-American Women: 150 Crusaders, Creators, and Uplifters
Bolden, Tonya
Herstory: Women Who Changed the World
Ashby, Ruth, and Deborah Gore Ohrn, eds

Books for Teens and Young Adults

We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide
Anderson, Carol, and Tonya Bolden

Children's Books

The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
Levinson, Cynthia

Civil Rights History

The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
Walker, Anders

Criminal Justice

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern America, With a New Preface, 2nd edition
Muhammad, Khalil Gilbran
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Alexander, Michelle

Literature

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, 3rd edition
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., and Valerie A. Smith, general eds., et al.

Politics, Policy, and Law

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Metzl, Jonathan
In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process: The Colonial Period
Higginbotham, Jr., A. Leon
Shades of Freedom: Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process
Higginbotham, Jr., A. Leon

Race Issues/Racial Justice

How To Be an Antiracist
Kendi, Ibram X.
So You Want To Talk About Race
Oluo, Ijeoma

Segregation

American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
Massey, Douglas S., and Nancy A. Denton

Slavery in the United States

Our Song, Our Toil: The Story of American Slavery As Told By Slaves
Stepto, Michele, ed
Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies
Blassingame, John W., ed
Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies
Durkin, Hannah

White Privilege

Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
Irving, Debby
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People To Talk About Racism
Diangelo, Robin
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Carol Anderson