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There are a LOT of really good books out there on the subject of race in America. This is just a sampling. Click on the title to be taken to an independent bookstore website for purchasing, or look for them on your library's website.
On the history of racism in the US:
Racism Without Racists
by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva.
Unsettling Truths
by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah (Mr. Charles is a native American who is running for president BTW)
Stamped from the Beginning
by Ibram Kendi
How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon
by David R. Roediger
On white supremacy and the American Christian Church:
Reconstructing the Gospel
by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Revolution of Values: Reclaiming Public Faith for the Common Good
by the same author
The Cross and The Lynching Tree
by James Cone
The Very Good Gospel
by Lisa Sharon Harper
Native
by Kaitlin Curtice
Trouble I’ve Seen:
Changing the Way the Church Views Racism
by Dr. Drew G. I. Hart
On Crime, "Justice," and Racism:
The New Jim Crow
by Michelle Alexander
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
Rethinking Incarceration
by Dominique DuBois Gilliard
On how to unlearn racism:
How to Be An Anti-Racist
by Ibram Kendi
Anti-Racist Baby
by Ibram Kendi (this is a board book for kids!!)
Be the Bridge
by Latasha Morrison
Biography/Memoir/Telling the Stories:
Between the World and Me
by Ta-nehisi Coates
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
by Austin Channing Brown
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
My Grandmother's Hands
by Resmaa Menakem
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