Books on Race

  • The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
  • Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
  • Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Beverly Daniel Tatum
  • Stamped From the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi
  • How to Be An Anti-Racist, Ibram X. Kendi
  • So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
  • When They Call You a Terrorist, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Asha Bandele, et al
  • White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, Carol Anderson
  • The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
  • Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race, Debby Irving
  • The Book of Unknown Americans, Cristina Henríquez
  • Critical Race Theory—an Introduction, Richard Delgado
  • Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement by Kimberle Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, et al
  • How to be Less Stupid About Race, Crystal Marie Fleming
  • Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, Michael Eric Dyson
  • Thick: And Other Essays, Tressie McMillan Cottom
  • Culturally Responsive Teaching, Geneva Gay
  • Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race, Frances Kendall
  • Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, Monique Morris, Mankaprr Conteh, et al
  • Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do, Claude Steele
  • Promoting Racial Literacy in Schools, Howard Stevenson
  • For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood, Christopher Emdin
  • White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, Tim J. Wise and Tim Wise
  • The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein
  • The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother, James McBride
  • Slavery by Another Name, Douglas A. Blackmon