read up on race…

read Black authors…

& buy from Black-owned bookstores

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah

Als, Hilton. White Girls. 

Asante, MK. Buck: A Memoir. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2014.

Alexander, Elizabeth. The Light of the World: A Memoir. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2016.

Angelou,Maya. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.

Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. New York: The Dial Press, 1963.

____________. Notes of a Native Son. 

____________. Collected Essays (Library of America Edition) 

Bell, Derrick. Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. New York: Basic Books, 1992.

Bennett, Brit. The Vanishing Half

Betts, Reginald Dwayne. A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison. New York: Penguin, 2009.

-------------------------------- Felon: Poems. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2019.

Blight, David W. Frederick Douglas: Prophet of Freedom

Blow, Charles. Fire Shut up in My Bones: A Memoir. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2014.

 Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 1988.

Broom, Sarah M. The Yellow House: A Memoir

Brown, Jericho. The Tradition. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2019.

Butler, Octavia. Parable of the Sower.

___________. Kindred.

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy. New York: One World, 2017.

----------------------. Between the World and Me. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015.

 ---------------------.  The Beautiful Struggle. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2008.

______________. The Water Dancer.

Clifton, Lucille. Mercy.

Danticat, Edwidge. The Art of Death.

Datcher, Michael. Raising Fences: A Black Man’s Love Story. New York: Riverhead, 2002.

DuBois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk. Greenwich: Crestbooks, 1961.

Dyson, Michael Eric. Malcolm: the Myth & Meaning of Malcolm X. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

-------------------------. I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Touchstone, 2000.

Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man.

Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth.

Gates, Henry Louis. Colored People: A Memoir. New York: Vintage, 1995. 

Gates, Henry Louis. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man

Gay, Ross. The Book of Delights: Essays. Chapel Hill, Algonquin, 2019.

------------. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.

Gay, Roxane. Bad Feminist.

Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Glaude, Jr., Eddie S. James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own Time.

Goffman, Alice. On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Goss, Linda and Barnes, Marian, Eds. Talk That Talk: An Anthology of African-American Storytelling. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.

Griffin, John Howard. Black Like Me. Boston: Signet, 1960.

Gyasi, Yaa. Trnascendent Kingdom

Haley, Alex and Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York: Ballantine Books, 1973.

Hooks, Bell. Ain’t I A Woman

Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Jackson, George. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson. New York: Bantam, 1970.

Jones, Saeed. How We Fight For Our Lives: A Memoir.

Kendi, Ibram X. How to be an Antiracist. New York: One World, 2019.

____________. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.

Kotlowitz, Alex. An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2019.

Laymon, Kiese. Heavy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018.

Lester, Julius. Lovesong: Becoming a Jew. (backordered on bookshop)

Lorde, Audre. Sister Outsider.

Masters, Jarvis Jay. Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row. Junction City: Padma Publishing, 1997.

McBride, James. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother - 

McGuire, Danielle L. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power

Mendez, Paul. Rainbow Milk.

Moore, Wes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2010.

Morrison, Toni. Everything she wrote.

Newton, Huey P. Revolutionary Suicide. New York: Writers and Readers, 1973.

Obama, Barack. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. New York: Broadway Paperbacks, 1995.

Obama, Michelle. Becoming.

Oluo, Lieoma. So You Want to Talk About Race 

Perry, Imani. Breathe: A Letter to My Sons 

Petry, Ann. The Street.

Rankine, Claudia. Citizen: An American Lyric. Minneapolis: Grey Wolf Press, 2014.

Smith, Zadie. Swingtime

__________. White Teeth.

Staples, Brent. Parallel Time: Growing up in Black and White. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994.

Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2014.

Tarpley, Natasha. Testimony: Young African-Americans on Self-Discovery and Black Identity. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995. 

Tatum, Beverly. Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

Toure. Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to be Black Now. New York: Free Press, 2011.

Tretheway, Natasha. Monument

_______________. Native Guard

_______________. Memorial Drive

Tyson, Timothy B. The Blood of Emmett Till. New York: Simon & Schuster Press, 2017.

Walker, Alice. The Color Purple.

Walker, Rebecca. Black, White & Jewish

Ward, Jesmyn. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race. New York: Scribner, 2016.

 ------------------. Men We Reaped: A Memoir. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.

___________. Sing, Unburied, Sing.

Wideman, John Edgar. Brothers and Keepers. New York: Penguin, 1984.

__________________. Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till Fire. New York: Scribner, 2016.

Whitehead, Colson. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 

_____________________. The Nickel Boys: A Novel 

Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns

______________. Caste: The Origins of our Discontents

Wilson, Chris. The Master Plan: My Journey From Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2019.

Woodfox, Albert. Solitary: My Story of Transformation and Hope. New York: Grove Press, 2019.

Wright, Richard. Black Boy

 _____________. Native Son.

Young, Damon. What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays