Race In America: Resources at Your Library
Libraries are an important resource for education and information, especially during challenging time. Fauquier Public Library staff has brought together a wide range of antiracism resources, including books, e-books, e-audios and DVDs. Whether you’re discussing current events with children or teens or learning for yourself, these materials may be helpful.
Adults
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (also available as an e-book and an e-audiobook)
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (also available on CD, as an e-book and as an e-audiobook)
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do / Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD
How to Be Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi (also available as an e-audiobook)
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi (also available as an e-book and an e-audiobook)
When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and A New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Teen
I’m Not Dying With You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You (a remix of Stamped from the Beginning) by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds (also available as an e-book and e-audiobook)
Light It Up by Kekla Magoon
Slay by Brittney Morris
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
Brown v. Board of Education: A Fight For Simple Justice by Susan Goldman Rubin
Dear Martin by Nic Stone (also available as an e-audiobook)
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (also available as an e-book and e-audiobook)
The Skin I’m In by Pat Thomas
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
Children
Smoky Night by Eve Bunting
New Kid by Jerry Craft
Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History by Vashti Harrison
This Book Is Anti-racist by Tiffany Jewell
Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester
Don’t Touch My Hair! by Sharee Miller
A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (also available on CD, as an e-book and as an e-audiobook)
DVDs
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Additional Materials Available From Overdrive