Resources
Books for Adults
Titles are hyperlinked to the OhioLink Library Catalog. E-book links are provided where available.
General
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson (E-book)
- The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo (E-book)
Black/African American
- Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (E-book)
- Antagonists, Advocates and Allies, Catrice M. Jackson
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (E-book)
- Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon
- The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison (E-book)
- The Color of Money, Mehrsa Baradaran
- The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin (E-book)
- Homie, Danez Smith
- How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?, N. K. Jemisin
- How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi (E-book)
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou (E-book)
- Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson (E-book) (Bonus Research Guide)
- Just Us, Claudia Rankine
- The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
- Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde
- So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo (E-book)
- The Tradition, Jericho Brown
- The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
- What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker, Damon Young
- When They Call You a Terrorist, Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
- Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- Women, Race and Class, Angela Davis
Asian American
- The Leavers, Lisa Ko
- The Myth of the Model Minority, Rosalind S. Chou
- This Is One Way to Dance, Sejal Shah
- Strangers from a Distant Shore: A History of Asian Americans, Ronald Takaki
- The Making of Asian America: A History, Erika Lee
Latinx
- The Book of Unknown Americans, Cristina Henríquez
- Children of the Land, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
- Enrique’s Journey, Sonia Nazario
- In the Country We Love, Diane Guerrero
- Once I Was You, Maria Hinojosa
Muslim American
- Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism, Nadine Naber
- Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry, Hayan Charara
- Outsiders at Home, Nazita Lajevardi (E-book)
Native American/Indigenous Peoples
- An American Sunrise, Joy Harjo
- The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, David Treuer (E-book)
- An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (E-book)
- Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz
- There There, Tommy Orange (E-book) (Bonus Research Guide)
Books for Teens and Kids
Black/African American
- All Because You Matter, Tami Charles
- All Boys Aren’t Blue George M. Johnson
- Antiracist Baby, Ibram X. Kendi
- Black Brother, Black Brother, Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Black Girl Unlimited, Echo Brown
- Blended, Sharon M. Draper
- Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson
- The Day You Begin, Jacqueline Woodson
- Don’t Touch My Hair!, Sharee Miller
- Felix Ever After, Kacen Callender
- For Black Girls Like Me, Mariama J. Lockington
- Genesis Begins Again, Alicia D. Williams
- Hands Up!, Breanna J. McDaniel
- The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
- I Am Enough, Grace Byers
- Let Me Hear a Rhyme, Tiffany D. Jackson
- Little Legends/Little Leaders, Vashti Harrison
- March (Books 1-3), John Lewis
- M Is for Melanin, Tiffany Rose
- New Kid, Jerry Craft
- The Only Black Girls in Town, Brandy Colbert
- Piecing Me Together, Renee Watson
- Something Happened in Our Town, Marianne Celano
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You, Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
- Sulwe, Lupita Nyong’o
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy, Tony Medina
- This Book Is Anti-Racist, Tiffany Jewell
- Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, Kwame Mbalia
- The Undefeated, Kwame Alexander
- We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices, Wade Hudson and Cheryl Hudson, eds.
- What Lane?, Torrey Maldonado
- Woke Baby, Mahogany L. Browne
Asian American
- American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang
- Love From A to Z, K. Ali
- The Most Beautiful Thing, Kao Kalia Yang
- The Proudest Blue, Ibtihaj Muhammad
Latinx
- A Is for Activist, Innosanto Nagara
- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Erika Sánchez
- My Papi Has a Motorcycle, Isabel Quintero
- Patron Saints of Nothing, Randy Ribay
- The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo
- We’ve Got the Whole World in Our Hands/Tenemos el mundo entero en las manos, Rafael López
Native American/Indigenous Peoples
- We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga, Traci Sorell
- We Are Water Protectors, Carole Lindstrom
- When We Were Alone, David A. Robertson
TV/Movies
Online Videos
- How Can We Win?
- MLK Jr. Talks “New Phase” of Civil Rights Struggle
- President Obama Speaks at Town Hall on Policing and Racism
- George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery and Amy Cooper – The Daily Social Distancing Show
- Why Cities Are Still So Segregated
Netflix
- 13th
- Amanda Knox
- American Son
- Do the Right Thing
- Hello, Privilege. It's Me, Chelsea
- Homecoming
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- The Innocent Man
- Loving
- Moonlight
- Seven Seconds
- Teach Us All
- Time: The Kalief Browder Story
- When They See Us
Amazon Prime
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco
- Murder on a Sunday Morning
- The Trials of Darryl Hunt
Hulu, Apple TV and PBS
- BlacKkKlansman
- Sorry to Bother You
- The Banker
- The Central Park Five
- The Hate U Give
Podcasts
- 1619
- Code Switch
- Intersectionality Matters!
- Latino USA
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- NATAL
- The Nod
- On One With Angela Rye
- Pod for the Cause
- Pod Save the People
- The Secret Lives of Black Women
- Seeing White
- Serial (Season 1)
- The Show About Race
- Sibling Rivalry
- Still Processing
- The Stoop