Book List 


​So You Want to Talk About Race 
2018
by Ijeoma Oluo​

​Between the World and Me
2015
by Ta-Nehisi Coates

​Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
2017
by Michael Eric Dyson

​We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial future 
2015
by Deepa Iyer

​When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir 
2018
by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele

​White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide 
2016
by Carol Anderson

​Are Prisons Obsolete?
2003
by Angela Davis
​
​Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
2003
by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

​The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
2017
by Richard Rothstein

​The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
2010
by Michelle Alexander

​We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
2017
by Ta-Nehisi Coates

​Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and Literary Imagination 
1992
by Toni Morrison

​The Origin of Others 
2017
by Toni Morrison

​Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower 
2018
by Brittney Cooper

Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture 
2018
by Ed Morales

An African American and Latinx History of the United States
2018
by Paul Ortiz

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
2014
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Pushout
2018
by Monique W. Morris

The Souls of Black Folk
1903
by W.E.B Du Bois

Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary
2015
by Dennis R. Childs

The Black Shoals: Offshore Formation of Black and Native Studies
2019
by Tiffany Lethabo king

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
2019
by Saidiya Hartman

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
2008
by Saidiya Hartman

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
1997
by Saidiya Hartman

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
2016
by Christina Sharpe

Dying of Whiteness
2019
by Jonathan M. Metzl

From a Native Daughter
1993
by Hauani-Kay Trask

Harvest of Empire
2012
by Juan Gonzalez

Open Veins of Latin America
1971
by Eduardo Galeano

The Bluest Eye
1970
by Toni Morrison


Baracoon? - combatting erasure of history and challenging trends in the collection and valuation of whose story matters enough to be remembered