AntiRacist Nonfiction Reading List
Compiled by SCLSNJ’s Staff
- “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin
- “How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi
- “Heavy: An American Memoir” by Kiese Laymon
- “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson
- “March, Book One” by John Lewis
- “Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor” by Layla F. Saad
- “Negroland” by Margo Jefferson
- “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander
- “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates” by Wes Moore
- “So You Want to Talk About Race” by Ijeoma Oluo
- “The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations” by Toni Morrison
- “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
- “Tears We Cannot Stop” by Michael Eric Dyson
- “This Will Be My Undoing” by Morgan Jerkins
- “Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves” by Glory Edim
- “When They Call You a Terrorist:A Black Lives Matter Memoir” by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bendele
- “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” by Robin DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson
- “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