This is a list of anti-racism books held at the Springfield City Library as of June 27, 2020, with links to our catalog.<\/p>\n
Those books available as electronic items (eBooks and eAudiobooks) in Hoopla<\/a> have links as well.<\/p>\n We also have an extensive curated collection of electronic items (eBooks and eAudiobooks) available on Overdrive<\/a> and through the Libby app.<\/p>\n Here are some top choices, alphabetical by author, with a more extensive list below.<\/strong><\/p>\n The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness<\/a> by Michelle Alexander (2011) (also on Hoopla as eBook<\/a>)<\/p>\n El color de la justicia: la nueva segregaci\u00f3n racial en Estados Unidos<\/a> por Michelle Alexander (2017) (tambi\u00e9n en Hoopla como audiolibro electr\u00f3nico<\/a>)<\/p>\n The Fire Next Time<\/a> by James Baldwin (1963)<\/p>\n Between the World and Me<\/a> by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)<\/p>\n White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism<\/a> by Robin J. DeAngelo (2018)<\/p>\n Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race<\/a> by Reni Eddo-Lodge (2017)<\/p>\n Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change<\/a> by Angela Hattery and Earl Smith (2018)<\/p>\n Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot<\/a> by Mikki Kendall (2020)<\/p>\n How to Be an Antiracist<\/a> by Ibram X. Kendi (2019)<\/p>\n Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America<\/a> by Ibram X. Kendi (2016) (also on Hoopla as eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir<\/a> by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele (2018) (also on Hoopla as eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches<\/a> by Audre Lorde (1984) (also on Hoopla as eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools<\/a> by Monique W. Morris (2018) (also on Hoopla as eBook<\/a> and eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n So You Want to Talk About Race<\/a> by Ijeoma Oluo (2018) (also on Hoopla as eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You<\/a> by Jason Reynolds (2020)<\/p>\n Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor<\/a> by Layla F. Saad (2020) (also on Hoopla as eBook<\/a> and eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race<\/a> by Jesmyn Ward, editor (2016)<\/p>\n Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence<\/a> by Chad Louis Williams, Kidada E. Williams, and Keisha N. Blain (2016)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Black Lotus: A Woman’s Search for Racial Identity<\/a> by Sil Lai Abrams (2016)<\/p>\n Cuz: Or, the Life and Times of Michael A.<\/a> by Danielle S. Allen (2017)<\/p>\n We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide<\/a> by Carol Anderson and Tonya Bolden (2018)<\/p>\n I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings<\/a> by Maya Angelou (1969)<\/p>\n Borderlands\/La Frontera: The New Mestiza<\/a> by Gloria Anzaldua (1987)<\/p>\n Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America<\/a> by Nefertiti Austin (2019) (also on Hoopla as eBook<\/a> and eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n Malaya: Essays on Freedom<\/a> by Cinelle Barnes (2019)<\/p>\n Things That Make White People Uncomfortable<\/a> by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin (2018) (also on Hoopla as eBook<\/a> and eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine<\/a> by Emily Bernard (2019)<\/p>\n A Black Women’s History of the United States<\/a> by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali N. Gross (2020)<\/p>\n Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II<\/a> by Douglas A. Blackmon (2008)<\/p>\n Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination<\/a> by Herb Boyd (2017)<\/p>\n For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics<\/a> by Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, Minyon Moore, and Veronica Chambers (2018) (also on Hoopla as eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness<\/a> by Austin Channing Brown (2018)<\/p>\n The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me<\/a> by Keah Brown (2019)<\/p>\n The Heritage: Black Athletes, A Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism<\/a> by Howard Bryant (2018)<\/p>\n Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women<\/a> by Susan Burton and Cari Lynn (2017) (also on Hoopla as eBook<\/a>)<\/p>\n Chokehold: Policing Black Men<\/a> by Paul Butler (2017) (also on Hoopla as eBook<\/a>)<\/p>\n This Stops Today: Eric Garner’s Mother Seeks Justice After Losing Her Son<\/a> by Gwen Carr and Dave Smitherman (2018) (also on Hoopla as eBook<\/a>)<\/p>\n Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements<\/a> by Charlene A. Carruthers (2018)<\/p>\n We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation<\/a> by Jeff Chang (2016)<\/p>\n We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy<\/a> by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017)<\/p>\n Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower<\/a> by Brittney C. Cooper (2018) (also on Hoopla as eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education<\/a> by Jennine Capo Crucet (2019)<\/p>\n Thick: And Other Essays<\/a> by Tressie McMillan Cottom, Tressie McMillan (2019) (also on Hoopla as eBook<\/a>)<\/p>\n A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir<\/a> by Jason Timbuktu Diakite (2020)<\/p>\n Ordinary Girls: A Memoir<\/a> by Jaquira Diaz (2019) (also on Hoopla as eBook<\/a> and eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n “All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans<\/a> by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker (2016) (also on Hoopla as eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America<\/a> by Michael Eric Dyson (2016) (also on Hoopla as eBook<\/a>)<\/p>\n Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America<\/a> by Michael Eric Dyson (2017)<\/p>\n Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do<\/a> by Jennifer L. Eberhardt (2019)<\/p>\n How to Make White People Laugh<\/a> by Negin Farsad (2016)<\/p>\n How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide<\/a> by Crystal M. Fleming (2018)<\/p>\n Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin<\/a> by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin (2017)<\/p>\n Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow<\/a> by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2019)<\/p>\n Bad Feminist: Essays<\/a> by Roxane Gay (2014) (also on Hoopla as eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body<\/a> by Roxane Gay (2017) (also on Hoopla as eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903<\/a> by Lawrence Goldstone (2011)<\/p>\n On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights<\/a> by Lawrence Goldstone (2020) (also on Hoopla as eBook<\/a>)<\/p>\n Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership<\/a> by Ed Gordon (2020)<\/p>\n In the Country We Love: My Family Divided<\/a> by Diane Guerrero and Michelle Burford (2016)<\/p>\n En el pa\u00eds que amamos: mi familia dividida<\/a> por Diane Guerrero y Michelle Burford (2016)<\/p>\n The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell it Like It Is<\/a> by Fannie Lou Hamer (2011)<\/p>\n Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America<\/a> by Melissa V. Harris-Perry (2011) (also on Hoopla as eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n A Colony in a Nation<\/a> by Chris Hayes 2017<\/p>\n A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir<\/a> by Daisy Hernandez (2017)<\/p>\n Children of the Land<\/a> by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo (2020) (also on Hoopla as eBook<\/a>)<\/p>\n A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland<\/a> by DaMaris B. Hill (2019)<\/p>\n Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond<\/a> by Marc Lamont Hill (2016) (also on Hoopla as eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row<\/a> by Anthony Ray Hinton and Lara Love Hardin (2018)<\/p>\n Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning<\/a> by Cathy Park Hong (2020)<\/p>\n The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America’s Law Enforcement<\/a> by Matthew Horace and Ron Harris (2018)<\/p>\n Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream<\/a> [graphic novel] written by Blair Imani and illustrated by Rachelle Baker (2020)<\/p>\n Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race<\/a> by Debby Irving (2014) (also on Hoopla as eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape our Multiracial Future<\/a> by Deepa Iyer (2015) (also on Hoopla as eBook<\/a>)<\/p>\n Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family<\/a> by Mitchell S. Jackson (2019)<\/p>\n This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America<\/a> by Morgan Jerkins (2018) (also on Hoopla as eBook<\/a> and eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets<\/a> by Feminista Jones (2019)<\/p>\n How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir<\/a> by Saeed Jones (2019)<\/p>\n Talking About Race: A Workbook About White People Fostering Racial Equality in Their Lives<\/a> by Kaolin (2010)<\/p>\n Black Indians: A Heritage<\/a> by William Loren Katz (2012) (also on Hoopla as eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism<\/a> by Nikki Khanna (2020)<\/p>\n Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time<\/a> by James William Kilgore (2015) (also on Hoopla as eBook<\/a>)<\/p>\n Heavy: An American Memoir<\/a> by Kiese Laymon (2018)<\/p>\n The Making of Asian America: A History<\/a> by Erika Lee (2015)<\/p>\n My Sister: How One Sibling’s Transition Changed Us Both<\/a> by Selenis Leyva, Marizol Leyva, and Emily Chammah (2020)<\/p>\n The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival<\/a> by Denise Low (2017)<\/p>\n The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a Divided City<\/a> by Ryan Lugalia-Hollon and Daniel Cooper (2018)<\/p>\n Real American: a Memoir<\/a> by Julie Lythcott-Haims (2017) (also on Hoopla as eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance\u2014A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power<\/a> by Danielle L. McGuire (2010)<\/p>\n Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown<\/a> by Lezley McSpadden and Lyah Beth LeFlore (2016) (also on Hoopla as eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies<\/a> by Resmaa Menakem (2017)<\/p>\n My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children<\/a> by Denene Millner (2017)<\/p>\n Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me<\/a> by Janet Mock (2017)<\/p>\n Latinas and Latinos on TV: Colorblind Comedy in the Post-racial Network Era<\/a> by Isabel Molina-Guzman (2018)<\/p>\n The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates<\/a> by Wes Moore (2011)<\/p>\n Brown, White, Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion<\/a> by Mehra Nishta (2019) (also on Hoopla as eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance<\/a> by Barack Obama (1995)<\/p>\n Becoming<\/a> by Michelle Obama (2018)<\/p>\n An African American and Latinx History of the United States<\/a> by Paul Ortiz (2018)<\/p>\n Breathe: A Letter to My Sons<\/a> by Imani Perry (2019)<\/p>\n Excessive Use of Force: A Mother’s Continuing Fight Against Police Misconduct<\/a> by Loretta P. Prater (2018)<\/p>\n Invisible No More: Police Violence against Black Women and Women of Color<\/a> by Andrea J. Ritchie (2017)<\/p>\n You Can\u2019t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain<\/a> by Phoebe Robinson (2016)<\/p>\n The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America<\/a> by Richard Rothstein (2017)<\/p>\n Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City<\/a> by A.K. Sandoval-Strausz (2019)<\/p>\n Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America<\/a> by Sharmila Sen (2018)<\/p>\n Toxic Inequality: How America’s Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, & Threatens Our Future<\/a> by Thomas M. Shaprio (2017) (also on Hoopla as eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America<\/a> by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman, editors (2019)<\/p>\n Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education<\/a> by Mychal Denzel Smith (2016)<\/p>\n All Eyes Are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn<\/a> by Jason Sokol (2014)<\/p>\n How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance<\/a> by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin (2019)<\/p>\n Handcuffed: What Holds Policing Back, and the Keys to Reform<\/a> by Malcolm K. Sparrow (2016) (also on Hoopla as eBook<\/a>)<\/p>\n To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America’s Police<\/a> by Norm Stamper (2016)<\/p>\n Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia<\/a> by Sabrina Strings (2019) (also on Hoopla as eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street<\/a> by Matt Taibbi (2017)<\/p>\n Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation<\/a> by Beverly Daniel Tatum (2007)<\/p>\n Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership<\/a> by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (2019) (also on Hoopla as eBook<\/a> and eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective<\/a> by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (2017) (also on Hoopla as eBook<\/a> and eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n Black Fathers: A Call for Healing<\/a> by Kristin Clark Taylor (2003)<\/p>\n A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History<\/a> by Jeanne Theoharis (2018)<\/p>\n We Matter: Athletes and Activism<\/a> by Etan Thomas (2018) (also on Hoopla as eBook<\/a>)<\/p>\n The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism<\/a> by Jemar Tisby (2019) (also on Hoopla as eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present<\/a> by David Treuer (2019)<\/p>\n Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life<\/a> by David Treuer (2012) (also on Hoopla as eBook<\/a> and eAudiobook<\/a>)<\/p>\n The Good the Bad and the Blue<\/a> by M. Triplett and H. Triplett (2018)<\/p>\n
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