Race-Related Books
Race-Related Books--First Books Are Must Reads for Whites
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
By Bryan Stevenson
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
by Richard Rothstein
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
By Robin Diangelo
By Debby Irving
By Ibram K. Kendi
So You Want To Talk About Race
By Ijeoma Oluo
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race
By Daniel Tatum
Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism
By Bell Hooks
By Toni Morrison
By Zora Neale Hurston
By James Baldwin
By Cornel West
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
By Maya Angelou
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racism in America
By Ibram X. Kendi
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
By Rebecca Skloot
By Ralph Ellison
By Paul Beatty
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, & Felicia Wong
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
By Jeff Hobbs
By Harper Lee
Abitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor
Angela J. Davis
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
By Douglas A. Blackmon
More Top Race-Related Books
By Laila Lalami
By Tayari Jones
By Toni Morrison
Black is the Body: Stories from my Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine
By Emily Bernard
By Lyndsay Faye
By Colson Whitehead
By Booker T. Washington
By W.E.B. Du Bois
By James Baldwin
By James Baldwin
By James Baldwin
By Wallace Thurman
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
By Malcolm X and Alex Hailey
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland
By Jonathan N. Metzyl
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century
By Dorothy Roberts
The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority
By Allen D Wu
By Zora Neale Hurston
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago
By Alex Kotlowitz
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What WE See, Think, and Do
By Jennifer L. Eberhardt
By Maurice Carlos Ruffin
By Trevor Noah
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
By James McBride
By Jacqueline Woodson
Mira Jacob
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity In a World Made for Whiteness
By Austin Channing Brown
By Claudia Rankine
By Margo Jefferson
40 Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
By William C. Rhoden
By Timothy B Tyson
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
By Dick Gregory
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
By Ocean Vuong
By Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
By Gilbert King
A Sin By Any Other Name: Reckoning with Racism and The Heritage of the South
By Robert W. Lee
Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim’s Doctor’s Struggle for Home in Rural America
By Azaz Virji
This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror
By Moustafa Bayoumi
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
By Khalif Gibran Muhammad
Colson Whitehead
Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
By Peniel E. Joseph
By Wil Haygood
The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities
Through Mindfulness
By Rhona V. Magee
By Hilton Als
By Jacqueline Woodson
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Edited by Keeanga-Uanahtta Taylor
Edited by Glory Edim
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
By Janet Mock
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By Audre Lewis
By T. Geronimo Johnson
