Books to read:
- A Collar In My Pocket: The Blue-eyes, Brown-eyes Exercise by Jane Elliott (2016)
- A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki (2008)
- A Little Matter of Genocide by Ward Churchill (1997)
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (1980)
- Behold, America: The Entangled History of "America First" and "the American Dream" by Sarah Churchwell (2018)
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
- Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt (2019)
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins (1990)
- Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin Banaji (2016)
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (1970)
- Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew (2018)
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein (2018)
- The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone (2011)
- Dancing on Live Embers: Challenging Racism in Organizations by Barb Thomas and Tina Lopes (2006)
- Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America by Michael Emerson and Christian Smith (2000)
- The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America by James Wilson (1998)
- Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby (2003)
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper (2019)
- Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts (2011)
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (1962)
- Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis (2015)
- The Future of Whiteness by Linda Martín Alcoff (2015)
- Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist (2014)
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2017)
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (2018)
- The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter (2010)
- Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall (2020)
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi (2019)
- How To Be Less Stupid About Race by Crystal M. Fleming (2018)
- How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance edited by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin (2019)
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969)
- Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie (2017)
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (2015)
- Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism by Michelle Goldberg (2007)
- The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics by Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields (2019)
- Make America Meme Again: Rhetoric of the Alt-Right by Heather Suzanne Woods and Leslie A. Hahner (2019)
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad (2020)
- The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (1981)
- Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae (2018)
- My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem (2017)
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (2012)
- The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs (2012)
- Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination by Alexandra Stern (2019)
- Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence by Derald Wing Sue (2015)
- The Race Track: How the Myth of Equal Opportunity Defeats Racial Justice by Kimberlé Crenshaw (2017)
- Racism, Public Schooling, and the Entrenchment of White Supremacy: A Critical Race Ethnography by Sabina E. Vaught (2011)
- Racism Without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (2014)
- Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold (2020)
- Redefining Realness by Janet Mock (2014)
- Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores by Dominique DuBois Gilliard (2018)
- Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities by Jessica Trounstine (2018)
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde (2007)
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (2018)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga (2015)
- Toxic Ivory Towers: The Consequences of Work Stress on Underrepresented Minority Faculty by Ruth Enid Zambrana (2018)
- Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene Carruthers (2018)
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (2011)
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson (2005)
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo (2018)
- White Identity Politics by Ashley Jardina (2019)
- Whiteness of a Different Color by Matthew Frye Jacobs (1998)
- White Rage by Carol Anderson (2017)
- White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg (2016)
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Tatum (1997)
- Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge (2017)
Many of these books can already be found at Augustana College's Tredway Library through the Augustana Library Catalog. If you are having trouble finding more books, see our Finding Books tutorial.
Some example keywords to follow up on searches of your own in our local or I-Share catalogs:
