Books for Adults
Check our Compilations page for more extensive book recommendations for adults and kids; here are just a few highlights.
| Title & Author | Summary & Key Ideas |
|---|---|
| White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism By Robin J. DiAngelo  |
Critically important reading for those of us who identify as white and are ready to do the work. The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. |
| How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi  |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves. |
| Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates  |
Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) |
| Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race By Beverly Daniel Tatum  |
Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication across racial and ethnic divides. |
| The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein  |
This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review). |
Books for Kids
Coming soon! In the meantime, check the lists in Compilations.