Library on Race and Racism

  1. Books
  • "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 Unforgiveable, 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
  1. Documentaries
  1. Movies
  1. Podcasts
  1. TV Shows