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07/02/2020 12:00 AMNow more than ever, we all need to come to a deeper place of understanding and unity. That means to never stop listening, learning, and teaching others the messages of the Black Lives Matter movement. These books allow everyone to understand what systemic racism is, how it started, how to talk about it, and how to fight it, and lift the voices of Black Americans.
The following is a list of books recommended by the staff of R.J. Julia Booksellers in Madison and Breakwater Books in Guilford:
For Adults
American Poison: How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise
By Eduardo Porter
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
By MALCOLM X, Alex Haley
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
By Eddie S. Glaude
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
A Black Women's History of the United States
By Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
By Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald
The Bluest Eye
By Toni Morrison
The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
By Walter Johnson
Citizen: An American Lyric
By Claudia Rankine
The Color of Law: A Forgotten |History of How Our Government Segregated America
By Richard Rothstein
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
By Gilbert King
The End of Policing
By Alex S. Vitale
Equality's Call: The Story of Voting Rights in America
By Deborah Diesen, Magdalena Mora (Illustrator)
The Fire Next Time
By James Baldwin
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
By Jesmyn Ward
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
By Mikki Kendall
How to Be an Antiracist
By Ibram X. Kendi
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
By Bryan Stevenson
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
By James Forman, Jr.
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
By Layla Saad, Robin Diangelo (Foreword by)
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By Michelle Alexander
The Nickel Boys: A Novel
By Colson Whitehead
2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America
By Jennifer Harvey
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By Audre Lorde
So You Want to Talk About Race
By Ijeoma Oluo
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
By Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
By Ibram X. Kendi
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
By Henry Louis Gates
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
By Michael Eric Dyson
Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel
By Zora Neale Hurston
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work
By Tiffany Jewell, Aurelia Durand (Illustrator)
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
By Isabel Wilkerson
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
By Glory Edim
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
By Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by)
White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America
By Margaret A. Hagerman
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
By Carol Anderson
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race
By Beverly Daniel Tatum
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
By Reni Eddo-Lodge
For Children
After the Shot Drops
By Randy Ribay
A is for Activist
By Innosanto Nagara
AntiRacist Baby
By Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illustrator)
Black Brother, Black Brother
By Jewell Parker Rhodes
Black Is a Rainbow Color
By Angela Joy, Ekua Holmes (Illustrator)
Citizen Baby: My Vote
By Megan E. Bryant, Daniel Prosterman, Micah Player (Illustrator)
Clean Getaway
By Nic Stone
Equality's Call: The Story of Voting Rights in America
By Deborah Diesen, Magdalena Mora (Illustrator)
Genesis Begins Again
By Alicia D. Williams
Hair Love
by Matthew A. Cherry, Vashti Harrison (Illustrator)
I'm Not Dying with You Tonight
By Gilly Segal, Kimberly Jones
Kent State
By Deborah Wiles
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
By Jason Reynolds, Alexander Nabaum (Illustrator)
My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich
By Ibi Zoboi
Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights
By Lawrence Goldstone
Sulwe
By Lupita Nyong'o, Vashti Harrison (Illustrator)
The Undefeated
By Kwame Alexander, Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)