Books to help you understand & fight white supremacy

This is an Australian book company, but well worth looking at their recommendations.

Anti-Racist Starter Kit:

• Stamped from the Beginning – Ibram X Kendi
• A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn (There is a “young people’s” version for elementary and middle school readers)
• White Fragility – Robin Diangelo
• So you want to talk about race – Ijeoma Oluo
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness – Austin Channing Brown
• Me and White Supremacy – Layla F Saad
• Stamped – Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi

Anti Racist List Black LGBTQ+:

• Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
• Zami – Audre Lorde
• Real Life – Brandon Taylor
• Unapologetic A black, queer, and feminist Mandate for Radical Movements – Charlene A Carruthers
• No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies – E. Patrick Johnson
• Since I Laid My Burden Down – Brontez Purnell
• The Other Side of Paradise – Staceyann Chin
• No Ashes in the Fire – Darnell L. Moore
• The Summer We Got Free – Mia McKenzie
• Black Like Me – John Howard Griffin
• Rising Out of Hatred – Eli Saslow
• Black On Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity – C. Riley Snorton

Anti-Racist Lit; Bios, Non-fiction, novels, personal narratives:

• The Warmth of Other Sons – Isabel Wilkerson
• The Fire Next time – James Baldwin
• Malcolm X – Alex Haley
• Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Killing Rage Ending Racism – bell hooks
• Becoming – Michelle Obama
• An American By Marriage – Tayari Jones
• A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota –
• The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother – James McBride
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption – Bryan Stevenson
• The Myth Of Race – Robert Sussman
• Anti-Racist Lit – Black Feminism:
• How we Get Free – Keeanga-Yamhtta Taylor
• Black Feminists Thought – Patricia Hill Collins
• Ain’t I a Woman Black Women and Feminism – Bell Hooks
• Bad Feminist – Roxane Gay
• Eloquent Rage – Brittney Cooper
• In Search of Our Mothers Gardens – Alice Walker
• Sister Outsider – Audre Lorde
• Women Race & Class – Angela Y Davis
• Assata: An Autobiography – Assata Shakur
• To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe – Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande

Anti-Racist Intermediate Kit:

• The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America – Anders Walker
• The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
• The Condemnation of Blackness – Khalil Gibran Muhammad
• Dying of Whiteness – Jonathan Metzl
• A Different Mirror – Ronald Takaki
• How to be an AntiRacist – Ibram X Kendi
• How the South Won the Civil War – Heather Cox Richardson
• Evicted – Matthew Desmond
• Nobody – Marc Lamont Hill
• Lies My Teacher Told Me – James W Loewen
• Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria – Berver Doniel Tatum, PhD
• The Color of Law – Richard Rothstein
• Blackballed – Darryl Pinkney

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