Let's read about racism
Here are 42 titles to consider for your next visit to the library
Our good friend Bridget Doherty shared with us this amazing list of important books on racism.
Bridget is a long-time PeaceQuest volunteer, as well as Kingston city councilor for the district of Portsmouth while working at the Justice, Peace & Integrity of Creation Office of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul.
Bridget put this list together along with Sister Carol Stenger, CDP. Our thanks to Bridget and Sr. Carol for passing this along.
Books on Racism
“How to be an Antiracist” by Ibram X Kendi, c. 2019
“The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together” by Heather McGhee, c. 2021
“American Dreaming: A Memoir of Interracial Love, Estrangement, and Race Equality” by Dianne Luizzi Hagan, c. 2021
"Racism without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States" by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva c. 2017
"Two Faced Racism: Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage" by Leslie Picca and Joe Feagin, c. 207
"How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide" by Crystal Fleming, c 2018
"The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions" by Vilna Bashi Treitler, c. 2013
"Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach" by Tanya Golash Boza, c. 2016
“This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism” by Don Lemon, c. 2021
“The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America” by Richard Rothstein, c. 2018
“So You Want to Talk About Race” by Ijeoma Oluo, c. 2019
“Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, c. 2015
“Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot” by Mikki Kendall, c. 2021
“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race” by Beverly Daniel Tatum, c. 2017
“Discrimination and Disparities” by Thomas Sowell, c. 2019
“Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor” by Layla Saad, c. 1920
“Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man” by Emmanuel Acho, c. 2020
“Black Rednecks and White Liberals” by Thomas Sowell, c. 2006
“Race and the Cosmos” by Barbara Holmes
“Caste: A Brief History of Racism, Sexism, Classism, Ageism, Homophobia, Religious Intolerance, Xenophobia, and Reasons for Hope” by University Press, c. 2020
“We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice” (Abolitionist Papers) by Mariame Kaba, c. 2021
“Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing” by Joy a Degruy, c. 2017
“Racial Justice and the Catholic Church” by Bryan N. Massingale, c. 2010
“The Church and the Racial Divide: Reflections of an African American Catholic Bishop” by Edward K. Braxto, c. 2021
“Thea's Song: The Life of Thea Bowman” by Charlene Smith & John Feister, c. 2012
In My Grandmother's House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit” by Yolanda Pierce, c. 2021
“The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism” by Jemar Tisby & Lecrae Moore, c. 2020
“The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--and How We Can Fix It” by Dorothy A. Brown, c. 2021
“Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own” by Eddie S. Glaude Jr., c. 2020
“Across That Bridge” (Illustrated) by John Lewis, c. 2017
“Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America” by Michael Eric Dyson, c. 2020
“The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother” by James McBride, c. 2006
“I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness “ (Audible Audiobook – Unabridged) by Austin Channing Brown, c. 2018
“White Fragility” by Robin DiAngelo, c. 2018
“Poverty and Racism” by Dr. Brian N. Massingale
“Birth of A Movement: BLM and the Catholic Church” by Olga Marine Segura, C. 2021
“The Church and the Racial Divide” by Trevor Atward, C. 2019
“Four Hundred Souls” ed. By Ibram X and Abram Kendi, c. 2021
“The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song” by Henry Louis Gates Jr. c. 2021 (also two DVD’s of this)
“We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility” by Marc Lamont Hill c. 2020 (Analyzes systemic oppression in the US and how it connects directly to abolitionist work)
“A Paradise Built in Hell” by Rebecca Solnit
“The Cross and the Lynching Tree” by James H. Cone