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Anti-Racist Reading List

Biographies, Memoirs, and Essay Collections

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X, Alex Haley
Call Number: Online
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Call Number: HQ1421 .G39 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: E185.615 .C6335 2015
Publication Date: 2015
Black Radical by Kerri K. Greenidge
Call Number: E185.97.T75 A3 2020
Publication Date: 2019
Cuz by Danielle Allen
Call Number: E185.97.A364 A45 2017
Publication Date: 2017
Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper
Call Number: HQ1413.C67 C67 2018
Publication Date: 2018
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 1963
Also in print
Fire Shut up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow
Call Number: PN4874.B575 A3 2015
Publication Date: 2014
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2016
Also in print
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis; Frank Barat (Editor); Cornel West (Preface by)
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2016
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2018
Also in print
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2013
Also in print
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2019
Also in print
I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2018
Also in print
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 1969
Also in print
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2014
Also in print
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2011
Also in print
My Bondage, My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 1855
Also in print
No Ashes in the Fire by Darnell L. Moore
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2018
Also in print
On the Other Side of Freedom by DeRay Mckesson
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2018
Also in print
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations by bell hooks
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 1994
Also in print
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2014
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 0895941414
Publication Date: 1984
Also in print
Thick: And other essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2019
Also in print
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett; Dave Zirin
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2018
This Bridge Called My Back by Gloria Anzaldúa (Editor); Cherríe Moraga (Editor)
Call Number: PS508.W7 T44
Publication Date: 1981
To Shape a New World by Tommie Shelby
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2018
Also in print
Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim
Call Number: PS153.N5 W37 2018
Publication Date: 2018
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young
Call Number: E185.97.Y632 A3 2019
Publication Date: 2019