Race and Anti-racism Reading List

Dear Patrons of Abbie Greenleaf Library,

As protests around the country against racism and police violence extend well into their second week, demand for books about race and anti-racism has surged. Below is a list of some of the books on these topics that we have at the library. 

If your are interested in reading any of these titles or would like help finding others please send us an email:  info@abbielibrary.org

Books by Toni Morrison including Beloved and Bluest Eye

Books by James Baldwin including Go Tell it on the Mountain and If Beale Street Could Talk (also DVD)

James Baldwin: I am not Your Negro is now streaming at the Colonial Theater website

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

How to Be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo 

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas (also DVD) 

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by  Henry Louis Gates 

The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The Autobiography of Malcolm X 

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo by Zora Neale Hurston (also AUDIO)

Biography of Frederick Douglas and autobiography

Sing, Unburied Sing by Jessemyn Ward

The Underground Railroad and Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson, she also has written several books for children concerning racism