Anti-Racism: Nonfiction Books

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

by Layla F. Saad 

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

by Bryan Stevenson

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander

The Fire Next Time

by James Baldwin

How to Be an Antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi

So You Want to Talk About Race

by Ijeoma Oluo

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

by Isabel Wilkerson

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism

by Robin DiAngelo 

Dying of Whiteness

by Jonathan M. Metzl

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race

Edited by Jesmyn Ward

Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

by Ibram X. Kendi

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 Bevery Daniel Tatum

An African American and Latinx History of the United States

by Paul Ortiz

The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America’s Law Enforcement

by Matthew Horace and Ron Harris

A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present

by Howard Zinn

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

by Trevor Noah

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

by Jennifer L. Eberhardt