Anti-racist literature is currently flying off the shelves as (White) people are making (or seemingly trying to make) an effort to educate themselves on the injustices of Black people and People of Color. I’ve compiled a list of books I have read, books that I am currently reading, and books that I want to read.
Purchase links are not affiliate links.. The purchase links are to Black-owned businesses.
Books I’ve Read
Non-Fiction
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill-Collins
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Eloquent Rage by Brittany Cooper
Brown Girl Rising by Jacqueline Woodson
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa Hill-Perry
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy Degruy
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique Morris
Fiction
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Forty Acres by Dwayne Alexander Smith
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
The Spook Who Sat by the Door by Sam Greenlee
Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
I’m Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal
Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard by Echo Brown
Currently Reading
Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Noble
Want to Read
Non-Fiction
The Color of Law: A forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Warmth of Our Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Fiction
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Links in the post are from the following bookstores.
Eso Won Books is located in Leimert Park at
4327 Degnan Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90008
323.290.1048
Mon—Sat 10AM—5PM
esowonbooks@yahoo.com
Mahogany Books is located in D.C. at
1231 Good Hope Rd., S.E.
Washington, DC 20020
United States of America