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We created this book list to help explain issues regarding race and equity, and to stand with the Black community and amplify their voices. Reading one, some, or all of these books is a step toward dismantling prejudice.

Black Lives Matter | A Book List

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

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White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo

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So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo

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

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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World by Layla F Saad 

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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by  Ibram X. Kendi

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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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The Condemnation of Blackness By Khalil Gibran Muhammad

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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson 

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We Are Not Yet Equal by Carol Anderson 

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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon 

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Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler 

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Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

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How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi 

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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson

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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

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The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter 

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They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery 

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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele 

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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper 

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An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz 

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Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving  

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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum 

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