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Juneteenth: Anti-Racist Reading List

This guide provides references to materials of interest for Juneteenth, June 19, "a day of reflection, a day of renewal, a pride-filled day

Stamped from the Beginning - Ibram X Kendi

More Titles by Ibram X Kendi in the Forsyth Tech Library

A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn (There is a "young people's" version for elementary and middle school readers)

More Title by Howard Zinn in the Forsyth Tech Library

White Fragility - Robin Diangelo

More Titles Related to White Fragility in the Forsyth Tech Library

So, You Want to Talk about Race - Ijeoma Oluo

More Titles Related to Race in the Forsyth Tech Library

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness - Austin Channing

Brown Me and White Supremcy - Layla F Saad

More From Layla F. Saad in the Forsyth Tech Library

Stamped - Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race- Renni Eddo-Lodge

The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America - Anders Walker

The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander

The Condemnation of Blackness - Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Dying of Whiteness - Jonathan Metzl

A Different Mirror - Ronald Takaki

How to be an Anti-Racist - Ibram X Kendi

How the South Won the Civil War - Heather Cox Richardson

Anti-Racist Topic Specifics:Evicted - Matthew Desmond

Nobody - Marc Lamont Hill

Lies My Teacher Told Me - James W Loewen

Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria - Berver Doniel Tatum, PhD

The Color of Law - Richard Rothstein

Blackballed - Darryl Pinkney

The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson

The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin Malcolm X - Alex Haley

Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Killing Rage Ending Racism - bell hooks

Becoming - Michelle Obama An American By Marriage - Tayari Jones

A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota – Sun Yung Shin

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother - James McBride

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - Bryan Stevenson

The Myth of Race - Robert Sussman

How We Get Free - Keeanga-Yamhtta Taylor

Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins

Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism - bell hooks

Bad Feminist - Roxane GayEloquent Rage - Brittney Cooper

In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose - Alice Walker

Sister Outsider - Audre LordeWomen

Race & Class - Angela Y DavisAssata: An Autobiography - Assata Shakur

To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe - Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande

Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin

Zami - Audre Lorde

Real Life - Brandon Taylor

Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements - Charlene A Carruthers

No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies - E. Patrick Johnson

Since I Laid My Burden Down - Brontez Purnell

The Other Side of Paradise - Staceyann ChinNo

Ashes in the Fire - Darnell L. Moore

The Summer We Got Free - Mia McKenzie

Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin

Rising Out of Hatred - Eli Saslow

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity - C. Riley Snorton