Anti-Blackness - Deeper Work, History, and Understanding:

How to be an Anti-Racist, by Ibram X. Kendi

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619 – 2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha Blain

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, by Various

White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue ... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation, by Lauren Michele Jackson

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein

A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History, by Jean Theoharis

Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out, by Ruth King

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, by Carol Anderson

The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within U.S. Slave Culture, edited by Justin A. Joyce and Dwight McBride

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

The Condemnation Of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, by Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Dying Of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland, by Jonathan M. Metzl

The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease, by Jonathan M. Metzl

Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race, by Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D.

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family, by Mitchell S. Jackson

Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice, by David Pilgrim

Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum, by David Pilgrim

Reluctant Reformers: Racism and Social Reform Movements in the United States, by Robert L. Allen and Chude Pamela Allen

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, by Ijeoma Oluo

There's A Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis, edited by Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman

Ebony And Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities, by Craig Steven Wilder

An African American And Latinx History Of The United States, by Paul Ortiz

How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide, by Crystal Marie Fleming

All About Love: New Visions, by bell hooks

Race Talk And The Conspiracy Of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race, by Derald Wing Sue

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side, by Eve L. Ewing

Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, + Schooling in San Francisco, by Savannah Shange

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, by Nikole Hannah-Jones

African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals, by David Hackett Fischer

All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope--And Hard Pills to Swallow-- About Fighting for Black Lives, by Andre Henry

White by Law 10th Anniversary Edition: The Legal Construction of Race (Revised and Updated), by Ian Haney López

Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches, edited by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith

Say It Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity, edited by Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith

Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution, by Elie Mystal

The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America, by Nicholas Buccola

Art on My Mind: Visual Politics, by bell hooks

Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence, edited by Chad Williams, Kidada E. Williams, and Keisha N. Blain

The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States, by Walter Johnson

Within the Veil: Black Journalists, White Media, by Pamela Newkirk

Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America, by Beryl Satter

Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality, by Katerí Hernández

Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man, by Joshua Bennett

The Invention Of The White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control, by Theodore W. Allen

The Invention Of The White Race, Volume 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression, by Theodore W. Allen

Born In Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War, by Howard W. French

Hitler's Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of Afro-Germans, European Blacks, Africans, and African Americans in the Nazi Era, by Clarence Lusane

Black Founders: The Unknown Story of Australia's First Black Settlers, by Cassandra Pybus

Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern, by J. Sakai

Slaves In the Family, by Edward Ball

Life Of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy, by Edward Ball

The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century, by Peniel E. Joseph

Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage, by William Loren Katz

Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life, by Elijah Anderson

Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre, by Alverne Ball and Stacey Robinson

Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance, by Mia Bay

A Black Women's History of the United States, by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross

An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States, by Kyle T. Mays

The Black History of the White House, by Clarence Lusane

Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life, by Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson

Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation, by Kris Manjapra

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, by Edward E Baptist

They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of the Struggle for Black Lives, by Wesley Lowery

The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade, by Hannah Durkin

A Black Women's History of the United States, by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross

Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa into The Twenty-First Century, by Velma Maia Thomas

Freedom's Children: The Passage from Emancipation to the Great Migration, by Velma Maia Thomas

We Shall Not Be Moved, by Velma Maia Thomas

The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail, by Kristen Green

Anti-Racist Vocab Guide: An Illustrated Introduction to Dismantling Anti-Blackness, by Maya Ealey

Lies about Black People: How to Combat Racist Stereotypes and Why It Matters, by Omekongo Dibinga, PhD

Do the Work!: An Antiracist Activity Book, by W. Kamau Bell and Kate Schatz

The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America, by Andrew Kahrl

The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America, by Sarah Lewis

Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power - Updated and Revised: Interracial Solidarity in 1960s-70s New Left Organizing, by Amy Sonnie and James Tracy

Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty, by Annelise Orleck

The Fire That Time: Transnational Black Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation, edited by Ronald Cummings and Nalini Mohabir

We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power, by Caleb Gayle

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance, by Kellie Carter Jackson

Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal, by Bettina Love

Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership, by Brea Baker

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