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Library on Race and Racism
- "Caste: The Origins of our Discontents" by Isabel Wilkerson
- "White Fragility" by Robin DiAngelo
- "What Does It Mean to be White?" by Robin DiAngelo
- "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
- "So You Wanna Talk About Race" by Ijeoma Oluo
- "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race" by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- "Stringing Rosaries: The History, the Unforgivable, and the Healing of Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors (Contemporary Voices of Indigenous Peoples)" by Denise K. Lajimodiere
- "The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present" by David Treuer
- "Stamped from Birth: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America" by Ibram X. Kendi
- "Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights" by Gretchen Sorin
- "How To Be An Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi
- "Me and My White Supremacy" by Layla F. Saad
- "A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota" edited by Sun Yung Shin
(This is a selection for the statewide One Book | One Minnesota book club) - "Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think, and Do" by Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Ph.D
- "Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower" by Brittney Cooper
- "An African American and Latinx History of the United States" by Paul Ortiz
- "The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy" by Andrea Flynn, Susan R. Holmberg, Dorian T. Warren, and Felicia J. Wong
- "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration" by Isabel Wilkerson
- "Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism" by Safiya Umoja Noble
- "Blackballed" by Darryl Pinckney
- "Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race" by Debby Irving
- "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
- "The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority" by Ellen D. Wu
- "This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror" by Moustafa Bayoumi
- "Ain’t I a Women" by Bell Hooks
- "Native America, Discovered and Conquered" by Robert J. Miller
- "When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir" by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
- Upcoming books by Black authors
- 13th (Made available through YouTube by Netflix)
- The Central Park Five (Amazon Prime)
- Race: The Power of an Illusion
Available through California Newsreel and soon available to rent at the RW Public Library - Black, White & Us (Amazon Prime)
- The Children’s March
- Teach Us All (Netflix)
- The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix)
- Eyes on the Prize (Available on YouTube and facinghistory.org)
14-hour tour of the Civil Rights movement from 1955 to 1983. - The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (Amazon Prime)
- What Happened, Miss Simone? (Netflix)
- LA92 (Netflix)
- The Uncomfortable Truth (Amazon Prime)
- Miss Virginia (Netflix)
- American Son (Netflix)
- The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (Netflix)
- Strong Island (Netflix)
- Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart (Amazon Prime)
- Da 5 Bloods (Netflix)
- I Am Not Your Negro (Netflix and Amazon Prime)
- Just Mercy (Amazon Prime)
- Do The Right Thing
- Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
- Higher Learning
- Fruitvale Station
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- The Lion’s Share (Netflix)
- Get on the Bus (Netflix)
- Skin (Amazon Prime)
- Code Switch
- 1619 Podcast
- Justice in America
- Teaching While White
- About Race
- Scene on Radio – "Seeing White" Series
- Voices of Rondo: Oral Histories of Saint Paul’s Historic Black Community as told to Kate Cavett
- Available through August 31, 2020.
- Nice White Parents
- United States of Anxiety
- Voices of the Movement
- All My Relations
- Black Like Me
- This Land
- All My Relations
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
- Free on Spotify
- Video: Allegories on Race and Racism
- When They See Us (Netflix)
- Seven Seconds (Netflix)
- Dear White People (Netflix)
- Queen Sugar (OWN)
- Orange Is The New Black (Netflix)
- All American (Netflix)
- Voices of Color (Amazon Prime)
- From Jim to James Crow (Amazon Prime)
- The Color of Compromise (Amazon Prime)
- Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man (Available on YouTube)
- TED Talks Playlist: Understanding Racism in America
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Michelle Leise
Community Engagement FacilitatorPhone: 651.385.3618