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Anti-racist Resources

A guide to anti-racist resources at DU Libraries and beyond.

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12 Angry Men: True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today
Edited by Gregory S. Parks and Matthew W. Hughey
ain’t i a woman: black women and feminism
bell hooks
American While Black: African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship
Niambi Michele Carter
Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur
The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka
An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading
Dionne Brand
Beyond the Asterisk: Understanding Native Students in Higher Education
Edited by Heather J. Shotton, Shelly C. Lowe, and Stephanie J. Waterman
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
C. Riley Snorton
Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology
Edited by E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson
Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-First Century
Monique W. Morris
Blank: Essays and Interviews
M. NourbeSe Philip
The Book of Delights: Essays
Ross Gay
The Crunk Feminist Collection
Edited by Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, Robin M. Boylorn
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
Barbara Ransby
The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching About Race and Racism to People Who Don’t Want to Know
Tema Okun
Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
Edited by Patrick L. Mason
Essays on Art, Race, Politics, and World Affairs
By Langston Hughes, Edited by Christopher C. De Santis
Feeling White: Whiteness, Emotionality, and Education
Cheryl E. Matias
feminist theory: from margin to center
bell hooks
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings
Zora Neale Hurston
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundation of a Movement
By Angela Y. Davis, Edited by Frank Barat
From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Going Too Far: Essays About America's Nervous Breakdown
Ishmael Reed
Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir, 1969-1980
Lucille Clifton
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E. Baptist
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
Mumia Abu-Jamal
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society
Manning Marable
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
The Meaning of Freedom
Angela Y. Davis
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to Present
Harriet A. Washington
My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain
Aaron Dixon
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
Grace Lee Boggs
No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Justin Akers Chacón and Mike Davis
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
Aimé Césaire, translated by Clayton Eshleman
Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
Edited by Walidah Imarisha and Adrienne Maree Brown
Ostinato Vamps
Wanda Coleman
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire
Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women’s Activism from World War I to the New Deal
Nikki Brown
Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys
Victor M. Rios
Race Matters
Cornel West
Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era
Ashley D. Farmer
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women’s Health Activism in America, 1890-1950
Susan L. Smith
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes and Black Women in America
Melissa V. Harris-Perry
Sister Outsider
Audre Lorde
Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement
Edited by Bettye Collier-Thomas and V.P. Franklin
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Douglas Blackmon
Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness
Bob Kaufman
Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays of June Jordan
June Jordan
The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois
Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter
Tehama Lopez Bunyasi
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays
Hanif Abdurraqib
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable
Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin
A Voice From the South
Anna Julia Cooper
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Robin DiAngelo
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance In the United States
Edited by Joe Macaré, Maya Schenwar, and Alana Yu-lan Price
“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” and Other Conversations About Race
Beverly Daniel Tatum