Pasadena Public Library Compiles List of Books on Race in America

In the wakeof the death of George Floyd which sparked massive ongoing protests across thenation and discussions about systemic racism in American society, the PasadenaPublic Library released a list of books on race and social justice in America.The list includes authors like Maya Angelou, Malcom X, James Baldwin, AngelaDavis and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

The list iscompiled from suggestions from The New York Times,other public libraries, and Pasadena Public Library staff recommendations. Thebooks are available from Pasadena Public Library — in print, eBook, audiobookor multiple formats.

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• I Am Not Your Negro  written by James Baldwin [Documentary DVD]
• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald
• How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi
• Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
• The Central Park Five written and directed by Sarah Burns & David McMahon & Ken Burns [Documentary DVD]
• Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Just Mercy written by Destin Daniel Cretton  & Andrew Lanham [DVD based on the true story]
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
• An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Fiction)
• Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman, Jr.
• Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Edim Glory
• Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
• Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
• Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America by Peniel Joseph
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele
• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
• The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee
• Murder On a Sunday Morning a film by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade [Documentary DVD]
• Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
• Sister Ousider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
• They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (Fiction)
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Fiction)
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
• Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Richard Rothstein
• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
• The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect On America by Nikesh Shukla
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
• Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer
• America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privelege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis
• Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
• The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race edited by Jesmyn Ward
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X with the assistance of Alex Haley
• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

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