Antiracism: An Antiracist Reading List
Ibram X. Kendi's recommended list of books and much more.
AN ANTIRACIST READING LIST
These books were recommended by Ibram X. Kendi, a professor and founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. This list originally appeared in a New York Times article published on May 29, 2019. This Library Guide was created to give easy access to the Pfau Library's holdings included in that list.
Kendi is the author of Stamped From the Beginning: the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (3rd Floor E185.61 .K358 2016) and How to Be an Antiracist (Online).
NONFICTION ONLINE
- The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban AmericaBy Khalil Gibran Muhammad.
- Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical TraditionBy Cedric J. Robinson.
- How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River CollectiveEdited by Keeanga-Yamahatta Taylor.
- Sister Outsider: Essays and SpeechesBy Audre Lorde.
- The Autobiography of Malcolm XBy Malcolm X with Alex Haley.
- Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering OurselvesEdited by Glory Edim.
NONFICTION IN PRINT
- Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's HeartlandBy Jonathan M. Metzl.
5th Floor RA563.M56 M48 2019 - Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in AmericaBy Peniel E. Joseph.
3rd Floor E185.615 .J68 2006 - The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain by Langston Hughes IN The Portable Harlem Renaissance ReaderEdited by David Levering Lewis.
4th Floor PS508.N3 P59 1994
The Poetry Foundation offers Hughes’ essay on their website.
FICTION ONLINE
- Haiti, and Their Eyes Were Watching GodBy Zora Neale Hurston.
- The Bluest EyeBy Toni Morrison.
FICTION IN PRINT
- The Blacker the BerryPrint only.
4th Floor PS3539 .H957 B53 1996
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- Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black AmericaBy James Forman Jr.