Anti-Racist Reading List

Remember: anti-racist education is ongoing. Compensate and credit people of color for their education work!

This list is by no means complete but it is a start. We will be adding to it periodically.

PLEASE buy these books if you can. Your money and self-education should financially benefit BIPOC educators.

1.  Are Prisons Obsolete?, Angela Davis.  

2.  Invisible No More, Andrea Ritchie.  

3.  "A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement," Alicia Garza.  

4.  When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, Asha Bandele and Patrisse Cullors.  

5.  "No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear," Toni Morrison.  

6.  White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo.  

7.  "Unpacking the Invisible Backpack," Peggy McIntosh.  

8.  The 1619 Project.  

9.  Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Angela Davis.  

10.  The Marshall Project guide to Police Abolition.

11.  "The Case for Reparations," Ta-Nehisi Coates.  

12.  "Money Bail Might Be The Most Racist, Immoral Part of America’s Criminal Injustice System."  

13.  Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, Karen and Barbara Fields. 

14.  "Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups."   

15.  The Combahee River Collective Statement.  

16.  Beyond Survival, Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.  

17.  The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975.

18.  The Black National Anthem.

19.  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King Jr.  

20.  "Malcolm and Martin," James Baldwin.

21. Black Panther Ten Point Program.

22. Me and White Supremacy, Layla Saad.

23. The End of Policing, Alex S. Vitale (the publisher is currently making the e-book free)