Books to Educate and Equip

The 1619 Project by Nicole Hannah Jones

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy by Robert Jones

How to Be an Anti-Racist, Ibram Kendi – An accessible and practical look at what it means, not just to be ‘not racist,’ but to be actively ‘anti-racist.

The Sum of Us – Heather McAfee

Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson

Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram Kendi – A comprehensive and readable history of racism in the Unites States

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning, by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi – Remixed for youth and young adults: This is NOT a history book. This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are where we are. A book about race.”

So You Want to Talk About Race,  by Ijeoma Oluo – a “hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America.”

I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib is a graphic memoir that tells the story of her experience as a first-generation American of Filipino and Egyptian descent.

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World and Become a Good Ancestor, Layla Saad

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race, Beverly Daniel Tatum

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