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.
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So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo - Seal Press Format: Hardcover
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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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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Robin J DiAngelo - Beacon Press Format: Paperback
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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
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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
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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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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Safiya Umoja Noble - NYU Press Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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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
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"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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