We’ve based our suggested reads off Ibram X. Kendi’s “Antiracist Reading List” (The New York Times), and the “Schomburg Center Black Liberation Reading List” (New York Public Library).
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century by Dorothy Roberts
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punish by James Forman Jr.
Waiting 'Til The Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America by Peniel E. Joseph
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankin
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
Feel Free by Zadie Smith
How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
How To Be An Antiracist by by Ibram X. Kendi
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander