If You Want to Learn About Anti-Racism, These 10 Books Are a Start

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June 1, 2020 at 5:17 PM

If You Want to Learn About Anti-Racism, These 10 Books Are a Start

1) How to Be an Antiracist , by Ibram X. Kendi

2) The Fire Next Time , by James Baldwin

3) Between the World and Me , by Ta-Nehisi Coates

4) The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race , edited by Jesmyn Ward

5) Citizen: An American Lyric , by Claudia Rankine

6) White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism , by Robin DiAngelo

7) They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement , by Wesley Lowery

8) Heavy: An American Memoir , by Kiese Laymon

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

10) White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide , by Carol Anderson

If You Want to Learn About Anti-Racism, These 10 Books Are a Start

If the nationwide uprising following the horrific murder of George Floyd has left you eager to actively dismantle racism in your community and learn more about the ideology and practice of antiracism, one of the best things you can do to educate yourself is crack open a book. You’d be forgiven if you’re unsure of where to start, since there are truly hundreds of compelling books available on the subject. Don't sweat it too much. The important thing is to start: Here are a few books we deem essential reading on this subject, from memoirs to essay collections to poems.

From James Baldwin's 1963 treatise on the "racial nightmare" of life in America to contemporary writers who have taken up his mantle, here's where to start educating yourself.

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