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Anti-Racist Reading List from Ibram X. Kendi

"This anti-racist syllabus is for people realizing they were never taught how to be anti-racist. How to treat all the racial groups as equals. How to look at the racial inequity all around and look for the racist policies producing it, and the racist ideas veiling it. This list is for people beginning their anti-racist journey .." Ibram X. Kendi (author of "How to Be an Antiracist") "A Reading List for Ralph Northam". The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/antiracist-syllabus-governor-ralph-northam/582580/ I have added a few new books at the end of the list.

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  • Fatal Invention

    How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century

    Roberts, Dorothy
    Definition of race
    PaperbackNew York : New Press, c2011. — GN269.R64 2012
  • Stamped From the Beginning

    the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

    Kendi, Ibram X.,
    Racist/Anti-racist
    BookNew York : Nation Books, 2016. — E185.61.K358 2016
  • White Fragility

    Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

    DiAngelo, Robin, 1956
    PaperbackBoston : Beacon Press, [2018] — HT1521.D486 2018
  • Locking Up Our Own

    Crime and Punishment in Black America

    Forman, James, 1967-
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. — HV9950.F655 2017
  • Redefining Realness

    My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

    Mock, Janet, 1983-
    PaperbackNew York, NY : Atria Paperback, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2014. — HQ77.8.M63A3 2014
  • Eloquent Rage

    a Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

    Cooper, Brittney C., 1980-
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2018. — HQ1413.C67A3 2018
  • Heavy

    An American Memoir

    Laymon, Kiese,
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2018. — E185.97.L394A3 2018
  • Sister Outsider

    Essays and Speeches

    Lorde, Audre
    PaperbackBerkeley [Calif.] : Crossing Press, c2007. — PS3562.O75S5 2007
  • BookHoboken, N.J. : Melville House Pub., 2007. — E185.615.K3747 2007
  • The Half Has Never Been Told

    Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

    Baptist, Edward E.
    Slavery
    BookNew York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014] — E441.B337 2014
  • The Price for Their Pound of Flesh

    the Value of the Enslaved, From Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation

    Berry, Daina Ramey,
    Slavery
    BookBoston : Beacon Press, [2017] — E443.B446 2016
  • Reconstruction

    America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

    Foner, Eric, 1943-
    BookNew York : Harper & Row, c1988. — E668.F66 1988
  • Slavery by Another Name

    the Re-enslavement of of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II

    Blackmon, Douglas A.
    Convict leasing
    BookNew York : Doubleday, c2008. — E185.2.B545 2008
  • The New Jim Crow

    Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

    Alexander, Michelle
    PaperbackNew York : New Press, c2012. — HV9950.A437 2012