Anti Racist

Anti-racism includes beliefs, actions, movements, and policies adopted or developed to oppose racism. In general, anti-racism is intended to promote an egalitarian society in which people do not face discrimination on the basis of their race, however defined.

Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
Sweetness in the Skin
New from Here
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
The World Record Book of Racist Stories
White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better
Jilya
You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood
We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth
Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity
How to Be an Antiracist
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
So You Want to Talk About Race
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Between the World and Me
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Just Mercy
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Girl from Jakarta by Hester KeeganAntunites Unite by Terry BirdgenawWhite Fragility by Robin DiAngeloMe and White Supremacy by Layla F. SaadThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Anti-Racism List from Ideal Bookshelf
35 books — 12 voters
Natives by AkalaThe Many-Headed Hydra by Peter LinebaughThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MDThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor
Akala Reads
56 books — 10 voters

Homegoing by Yaa GyasiWoke Racism by John McWhorterBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownNobody by Marc Lamont HillWe Matter by Etan Thomas
Dismantle Racism
51 books — 2 voters

Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain by Zaretta HammondSo You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma OluoWhen the Hood Comes Off by Rob EschmannThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderWhy Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Books for Anti-Racist Teachers
66 books — 28 voters


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We all have a sphere of influence. Each of us needs to find our own sources of courage so that we can begin to speak. There are many problems to address, and we cannot avoid them indefinitely. We cannot continue to be silent. We must begin to speak, knowing that words alone are insufficient. But I have seen that meaningful dialogue can lead to effective action. Change is possible.
Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

Perhaps the least understandable aspect of ally politics to me is the overwhelming tendency for people, who otherwise seem to aspire to relationships free of domination, to try to exert control over others. Is it because when we feel like we occupy the most legitimate or objectively most justified position (often according to a strangely quantitative evaluation of those who are most wronged by social oppressions), it is easy to inflate our sense of righteousness? Or is it that when we feel like ...more
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