PACEs Connection Resource Center

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