Resources on Race and Racism
As our nation experiences yet another period of civil unrest in response to long-standing, systemic racial disparities, many of us are wondering what we can do, as individuals and as a society, to make our communities inclusive and just. Many of us are wondering how to make sense of what we are witnessing and experiencing. Libraries have long been places for education and community, and places where we can have civil conversations about difficult issues. Below are some resources to help us all grapple with our nation’s troubled history of race.
Better understand your own hidden biases by taking Project Implicit’s Hidden Bias Test
Explore the tools provided by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture to facilitate Talking About Race
Other Books for Adults on Race and Racism
Ijeoma Olua, So You Want to Talk About Race
Ibram X. Kendri, How to Be an Antiracist
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Debby Irving, Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele, When They Cally You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matters Memoir
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys
Jodi Picoult, Great Small Things
Books for Young Adults on Race and Racism
Ibram X. Kendri and Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Carol Anderson, We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding the Racial Divide
Walter Dean Myers, Monster
Nic Stone, Dear Martin
Kimberly Jones, I Am Not Dying with You Tonight
Books for Children on Race and Racism
Sharon M. Draper, Blended
Augusta Scattergood, Glory Be
Books for Young Children on Race and Racism
Katie Kissinger, All the Colors We Are: The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color
Matt de la Peña, Last Stop on Market Street
Walter Dean Myers, Looking Like Me
