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Anti-racist books
Anti-Racist Books
- The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
by Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, edited by Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein
- Angela Davis: An Autobiography
by Angela Y. Davis
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
- The Betrayal of the Negro: From Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson
by Rayford W. Logan
- Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
- Black Skin, White Masks
by Frantz Fanon
- Black Women's Mental Health: Balancing Strength and Vulnerability
edited by Stephanie Y. Evans, Kanika Bell, and Nsenga K. Burton
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
- Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
by Adam Hochschild
- Care for the Mental and Spiritual Health of Black Men: Hope to Keep Going
by Nicholas Grier
- Caring for Equality: A History of African American Health and Healthcare
by David McBride; series edited by Jacqueline M. Moore and Nina Mjagkij
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
- Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
by Edgar Villanueva
- From Slavery to Freedom (ninth edition or later)
by John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
- The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
by Annette Gordon-Reed
- How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
- How the Irish Became White
by Noel Ignatiev
- How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
by Heather Cox Richardson
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
- In My Father’s House
by Kwame Anthony Appiah
- It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
by Mark Wolynn
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by James W. Loewen
- Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
by Harriet A. Washington
- Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
by Ijeoma Oluo
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
by Layla F. Saad with foreward by Robin J DiAngelo
- My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
by Resmaa Menakem
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
by Frederick Douglass
- Native American Postcolonial Psychology
by Eduardo Duran with contributions from Bonnie Duran
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
- Notes of a Native Son
by James Baldwin
- A People’s History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
- The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
by Dolly Chugh
- Playing in the Dark
by Toni Morrison
- The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal
by Mary L. Trump PhD
- Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877
by Eric Foner
- Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth
by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), Darcia Narvaez PhD
- The Routledge International Handbook of Indigenous Resilience
edited by Hilary N. Weaver
- Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race
by Jean Halley, Amy Eshleman, Ramya Mahadevan Vijaya
- The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. Du Bois
- South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
by Imani Perry
- The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
by Heather McGhee
- A Voice from the South
by Anna Julia Cooper
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
- Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
by Debby Irving
- When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection
by Gabor Maté M.D.
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by Dr. Robin DiAngelo with foreward by Michael Eric Dyson
- White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
by Nancy Isenberg
