Antiracism Books for Adults

With the high demand for these titles, we thought it might be helpful if we put a list together.  We carry all of these books, but they may not be in stock.  If you go to the book page, it will give the in stock information.   You can order any of them and we'll reserve a copy for you when it comes in.

How to Be an Antiracist By Ibram X. Kendi Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525509288
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Published: One World - August 13th, 2019

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism By Dr. Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by) Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780807047415
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Published: Beacon Press - June 26th, 2018

So You Want to Talk About Race By Ijeoma Oluo Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781580058827
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Published: Seal Press - September 24th, 2019

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness By Michelle Alexander Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781620971932
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Published: New Press - January 7th, 2020

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption By Bryan Stevenson Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780812984965
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Published: One World - August 18th, 2015

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America By Ibram X. Kendi Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781568585987
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Published: Bold Type Books - August 15th, 2017

How to Be Black By Baratunde Thurston Cover Image
$14.99
ISBN: 9780062003225
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Published: Harper Paperbacks - October 30th, 2012

Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People By Ben Crump Cover Image
$26.99
ISBN: 9780062375094
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Published: Amistad - October 15th, 2019

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Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780812993547
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Published: One World - July 14th, 2015

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy By Carol Anderson, Dick Durbin (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Carol Anderson, Dick Durbin (Foreword by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9781635571394
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - September 17th, 2019

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide By Carol Anderson Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781632864130
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Published: Bloomsbury USA - September 5th, 2017

How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People By D. L. Hughley, Doug Moe Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9780062698643
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Published: Mariner Books - June 11th, 2019

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration By Isabel Wilkerson Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9780679763888
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Published: Vintage - October 4th, 2011

Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? (City Lights Open Media) By Mumia Abu-Jamal Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9780872867383
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Published: City Lights Books - July 4th, 2017

Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights By Doug Jones Cover Image
$29.99
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ISBN: 9781250201447
Published: All Points Books - March 5th, 2019

The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction): A Novel By Colson Whitehead Cover Image
$24.95
ISBN: 9780385537070
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Published: Doubleday - July 16th, 2019

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir By Saeed Jones Cover Image
$26.00
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ISBN: 9781501132735
Published: Simon & Schuster - October 8th, 2019

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays By Damon Young Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062684318
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Published: Ecco - January 14th, 2020

And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK By Henry L. Gates, Kevin M. Burke Cover Image
$35.00
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ISBN: 9780062427007
Published: Ecco - October 27th, 2015

Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History By Joel Christian Gill Cover Image
$23.95
ISBN: 9781938486296
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Published: Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum - May 1st, 2014

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland By Jonathan M. Metzl Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781541644977
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Published: Basic Books - May 12th, 2020

In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History By Mitch Landrieu Cover Image
$25.00
ISBN: 9780525559443
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Published: Viking - March 20th, 2018

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America By Michael Eric Dyson Cover Image
$24.99
ISBN: 9781250135995
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Published: St. Martin's Press - January 17th, 2017

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir By Patrisse Cullors, asha bandele Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781250306906
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - January 14th, 2020

Operation Breadbasket: An Untold Story of Civil Rights in Chicago, 1966-1971 By Martin L. Deppe, James Ralph (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Martin L. Deppe, James Ralph (Foreword by)
$22.95
ISBN: 9780820350479
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Published: University of Georgia Press - February 1st, 2017

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780525559559
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Published: Penguin Books - April 7th, 2020

An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel By Tayari Jones Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781616208684
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Published: Algonquin Books - February 5th, 2019

My Vanishing Country: A Memoir By Bakari Sellers Cover Image
$26.99
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ISBN: 9780062917454
Published: Amistad - May 19th, 2020

Invisible Man (Vintage International) By Ralph Ellison Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780679732761
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Published: Vintage - March 14th, 1995

The Fire Next Time (Vintage International) By James Baldwin Cover Image
$14.00
ISBN: 9780679744726
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Published: Vintage - December 1st, 1992

A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter By Nikki Giovanni Cover Image
$21.99
ISBN: 9780062399458
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Published: William Morrow - October 24th, 2017

Men We Reaped: A Memoir By Jesmyn Ward Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781608197651
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Published: Bloomsbury USA - September 16th, 2014

Mudbound By Hillary Jordan Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9781565126770
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Published: Algonquin Books - March 17th, 2009

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America By Richard Rothstein Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781631494536
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Published: Liveright - May 1st, 2018

Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist By Eli Saslow Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780525434955
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Published: Anchor - September 3rd, 2019

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies By Resmaa Menakem Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781942094470
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Published: Central Recovery Press - September 19th, 2017