This Riot Recommendation of favorite nonfiction about racism and white supremacy is sponsored by Sourcebooks.
When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would spread as widely as it did. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it. Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and nearly 100,000 people downloaded the Me and White Supremacy Workbook.
Updated and expanded from the original workbook, Me and White Supremacy, takes the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources.
Conversations about racism can be difficult and uncomfortable, but they’re absolutely essential in the dismantling of systems of oppression. Books are a great place to start in informing ourselves on these systems: their history in this country, how many of us benefit from and uphold them, and action plans for combatting their hold. That’s why we asked for your favorite nonfiction books about racism and white supremacy, and you delivered! We’ve rounded up 30 of your favorites: let’s all read up, then open up the conversation and affect meaningful change.
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Black Skin, White Mask by Frantz Fanon
On Intersectionality by Kimberle Crenshaw
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnel Moore
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Five Smooth Stones by Ann Fairburn
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Angry White People by Hsiao-Hung Pai
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust by Mary Stanton
The Color of Water by James McBride
Black is the Body by Emily Bernard
White Fragility by Robin J. DiAngelo
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation
by Beth E. Richie
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Black Boy by Richard Wright
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
A Choice of Weapons by Gordon Parks
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan M. Metzl
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
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