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Conversations about race can be difficult, finding resources to help shouldn't be. This is a list of books to get you started thinking about talking about race and issues surounding race. Perfect for the socially aware reader.
So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover

In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling...
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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

Layla Saad - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

"Layla Saad moves her readers from their heads into their hearts, and ultimately, into their practice. We won't end white supremacy through an intellectual understanding alone; we must put that understanding into action." -- Robin DiAngelo, author of New York Times bestseller...
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Robin J DiAngelo - Beacon Press
Format: Paperback

The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this "vital, necessary, and beautiful book" (Michael Eric Dyson) , antiracist...
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How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi - One World
Format: Book

Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism - and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At it's core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies...
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

Jason Reynolds - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in AmericaThis is NOT a history book.This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.A book about race. The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep...
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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race

Beverly Daniel Tatum - Basic Books
Format: Paperback

The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism-now fully revised and updated Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly Daniel...
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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

Safiya Umoja Noble - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover

A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms Run a Google search for "black girls" - what will you find? "Big Booty" and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But,...
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American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures

TO BE CONFIRMED. - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures.America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably...
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A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota

Sun Yung Shin - Minnesota Historical Society Press
Format: Print book

Essays that challenge, discomfort, disorient, galvanize, and inspire all of us to evolve now, for our shared future.
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The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person

Frederick Joseph
Format: Hardcover

"We don't see color." "I didn't know Black people liked Star Wars!" "What hood are you from?" For Frederick Joseph, life as a transfer student in a largely white high school was full of wince-worthy moments that he often simply let go. As he grew older,...
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