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)

General Racial Equity Resources for Children

Let's Talk: A Toolkit for Conversations About Race from the Children's Museum of Cleveland

Books for Children and Teens

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                                                                                                         

• 13^th
• 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