Antiracist Literature

Every single one of us needs to actively work to end racism; it is not enough to be "not racist," we must be Antiracist.

We have put together this list of suggested reading. You can also start learning immediately by purchasing audiobooks from this Libro.fm list. 

Check out our Antiracist Reading List for Kids & Teens.

 

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story Cover Image

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)

By Nikole Hannah-Jones (Created by), The New York Times Magazine (Created by), Caitlin Roper (Editor), Ilena Silverman (Editor), Jake Silverstein (Editor)
$38.00
ISBN: 9780593230572
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Published: One World - November 16th, 2021
Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America Cover Image

Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America (Hardcover)

By Michael Eric Dyson
$32.50
ISBN: 9781250135971
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Published: St. Martin's Press - November 2nd, 2021
Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora [A Cookbook] Cover Image

Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora [A Cookbook] (Hardcover)

By Bryant Terry (Editor)
$40.00
ISBN: 9781984859723
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Published: 4 Color Books - October 19th, 2021
Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present Cover Image

Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present (Hardcover)

By Adrienne Keene, Ciara Sana (Illustrator)
$18.99
ISBN: 9781984857941
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Published: Ten Speed Press - October 19th, 2021
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker Cover Image

The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker (Hardcover)

By Jelani Cobb, David Remnick
$35.00
ISBN: 9780063017597
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Published: Ecco - September 28th, 2021
Black Futures Cover Image

Black Futures (Paperback)

By Kimberly Drew, Jenna Wortham
$25.00
ISBN: 9780399181153
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Published: One World - October 26th, 2021
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement Cover Image

Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement (Hardcover)

By Tarana Burke
$28.99
ISBN: 9781250621733
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Published: Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book - September 14th, 2021
Poet Warrior: A Memoir Cover Image

Poet Warrior: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Joy Harjo
$25.00
ISBN: 9780393248524
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 7th, 2021
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South Cover Image

Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South (Hardcover)

By Winfred Rembert, Erin I. Kelly, Bryan Stevenson (Foreword by)
$30.00
ISBN: 9781635576597
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - September 7th, 2021
Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption Cover Image

Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption (Hardcover)

By Rafia Zakaria
$23.95
ISBN: 9781324006619
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - August 17th, 2021
The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America Cover Image

The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America (Hardcover)

By Carol Anderson
$28.00
ISBN: 9781635574258
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - June 1st, 2021
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Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America Cover Image

Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America (Hardcover)

By Michael Eric Dyson
$25.99
ISBN: 9781250276759
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Published: St. Martin's Press - December 1st, 2020
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On Juneteenth Cover Image

On Juneteenth (Hardcover)

By Annette Gordon-Reed
$15.95
ISBN: 9781631498831
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Published: Liveright - May 4th, 2021
The Other Black Girl: A Novel Cover Image

The Other Black Girl: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Zakiya Dalila Harris
$27.00
ISBN: 9781982160135
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Published: Atria Books - June 1st, 2021
Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm Cover Image

Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm (Hardcover)

By Dr. Robin DiAngelo
$24.95
ISBN: 9780807074121
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Published: Beacon Press - June 29th, 2021
Long Division: A Novel Cover Image

Long Division: A Novel (Paperback)

By Kiese Laymon
$17.00
ISBN: 9781982174828
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Published: Scribner - June 1st, 2021
House of Sticks: A Memoir Cover Image

House of Sticks: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Ly Tran
$27.00
ISBN: 9781501118814
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Published: Scribner - June 1st, 2021
Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir Cover Image

Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Ashley C. Ford
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250305978
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Published: Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book - June 1st, 2021
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Cover Image

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)

By Clint Smith
$29.00
ISBN: 9780316492935
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - June 1st, 2021
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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together Cover Image

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (Hardcover)

By Heather McGhee
$28.00
ISBN: 9780525509561
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Published: One World - February 16th, 2021
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Worldly Things Cover Image

Worldly Things (Hardcover)

By Michael Kleber-Diggs
$22.00
ISBN: 9781571315168
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Published: Milkweed Editions - June 8th, 2021
What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition Cover Image

What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition (Paperback)

By Emma Dabiri
$13.99
ISBN: 9780063112711
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Published: Harper Perennial - June 22nd, 2021
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Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong Cover Image

Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong (Paperback)

By Georgina Lawton
$17.99
ISBN: 9780063009486
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Published: Harper Perennial - February 23rd, 2021
My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption Cover Image

My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption (Hardcover)

By Ian Manuel, Bryan Stevenson (Foreword by)
$25.95
ISBN: 9781524748524
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Published: Pantheon - May 4th, 2021
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Cover Image

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (Hardcover)

By Ibram X. Kendi (Editor), Keisha N. Blain (Editor)
$32.00
ISBN: 9780593134047
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Published: One World - February 2nd, 2021
The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto Cover Image

The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto (Hardcover)

By Charles M. Blow
$26.99
ISBN: 9780062914668
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Published: Harper - January 26th, 2021
So You Want to Talk About Race Cover Image

So You Want to Talk About Race (Paperback)

By Ijeoma Oluo
$16.99
ISBN: 9781580058827
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Published: Seal Press - September 24th, 2019
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning Cover Image

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning (Hardcover)

By Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
$18.99
ISBN: 9780316453691
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - March 10th, 2020
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Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night Cover Image

Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Paperback)

By Morgan Parker, Danez Smith (Introduction by)
$16.95
ISBN: 9781951142568
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Published: Tin House Books - July 13th, 2021
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Cover Image

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Paperback)

By Ibram X. Kendi
$19.99
ISBN: 9781568585987
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Published: Bold Type Books - August 15th, 2017
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays Cover Image

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays (Paperback)

By Kiese Laymon
$16.00
ISBN: 9781982170820
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Published: Scribner - November 10th, 2020
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White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color Cover Image

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color (Paperback)

By Ruby Hamad
$16.95
ISBN: 9781948226745
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Published: Catapult - October 6th, 2020
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How to Be an Antiracist Cover Image

How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)

By Ibram X. Kendi
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525509288
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Published: One World - August 13th, 2019
Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents Cover Image

Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)

By Isabel Wilkerson
$32.00
ISBN: 9780593230251
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Published: Random House - August 4th, 2020
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide Cover Image

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Paperback)

By Carol Anderson
$17.00
ISBN: 9781632864130
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Published: Bloomsbury USA - September 5th, 2017
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Cover Image

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Paperback)

By Isabel Wilkerson
$17.95
ISBN: 9780679763888
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Published: Vintage - October 4th, 2011
Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice Cover Image

Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice (Hardcover)

By Yusef Salaam
$28.00
ISBN: 9781538705001
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - May 18th, 2021
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Cover Image

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Paperback)

By Michelle Alexander
$18.99
ISBN: 9781620971932
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Published: New Press - January 7th, 2020
Citizen: An American Lyric Cover Image

Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)

By Claudia Rankine
$20.00
ISBN: 9781555976903
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Published: Graywolf Press - October 7th, 2014
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The Fire Next Time (Vintage International) Cover Image

The Fire Next Time (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By James Baldwin
$13.95
ISBN: 9780679744726
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Published: Vintage - December 1st, 1992
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor Cover Image

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)

By Layla Saad, Robin Diangelo (Foreword by)
$25.99
ISBN: 9781728209807
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Published: Sourcebooks - January 1st, 2020
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Between the World and Me Cover Image

Between the World and Me (Hardcover)

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
$26.00
ISBN: 9780812993547
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Published: One World - July 14th, 2015
The End of Policing Cover Image

The End of Policing (Paperback)

By Alex S. Vitale
$17.95
ISBN: 9781784782924
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Published: Verso - August 28th, 2018
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Cover Image

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)

By Audre Lorde, Cheryl Clarke (Foreword by)
$16.99
ISBN: 9781580911863
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Published: Crossing Press - August 1st, 2007
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Cover Image

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Paperback)

By Bryan Stevenson
$17.00
ISBN: 9780812984965
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Published: One World - August 18th, 2015
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Cover Image

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)

By Angela Y. Davis, Frank Barat (Editor), Cornel West (Preface by)
$15.95
ISBN: 9781608465644
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Published: Haymarket Books - February 9th, 2016
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot Cover Image

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Paperback)

By Mikki Kendall
$16.00
ISBN: 9780525560562
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Published: Penguin Books - February 23rd, 2021
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Cover Image

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Paperback)

By Richard Rothstein
$17.95
ISBN: 9781631494536
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Published: Liveright - May 1st, 2018
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America Cover Image

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America (Paperback)

By Michael Eric Dyson
$16.99
ISBN: 9781250776679
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - May 4th, 2021
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How Beautiful We Were: A Novel Cover Image

How Beautiful We Were: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Imbolo Mbue
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593132425
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Published: Random House - March 9th, 2021
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Cover Image

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)

By Clint Smith
$29.00
ISBN: 9780316492935
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - June 1st, 2021
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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning Cover Image

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Paperback)

By Cathy Park Hong
$18.00
ISBN: 9781984820389
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Published: One World - March 2nd, 2021
Interior Chinatown: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) Cover Image

Interior Chinatown: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) (Paperback)

By Charles Yu
$16.00
ISBN: 9780307948472
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Published: Vintage - November 17th, 2020