BIAS & STEREOTYPES

Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People (Mahzarin Banaji & Anthony Greenwald)

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Malcolm Gladwell)

Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Claude M. Steele)

HISTORY & CONTEXT

A People's History of the United States: 1942 - Present (Howard Zinn)

A Young People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn)

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (an interview with the author)

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (James W. Loewen)

LBGTQIA+

Raising the Transgender Kid (Dr. Michele Angello & Allie Bowman)

The Gender Creative Child (Dr. Diane Ehrensaft)

RACE & ETHNICITY

17 Books on Race Every White Person Needs to Read (Sadie Trombetta & K. W. Colyard)

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States (Erika Lee)

As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock (Dina Gilio-Whitaker)

Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehesi Coates)

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think and Do (Jennifer L. Eberhardt)

Don't Ask Me Where I Am From (Jennifer De Leon)

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Recreate Race in the Twenty-First Century (Dorothy Roberts)

Heavy: An American Memoir (Kiese Laymon)

How Does it Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America (Moustafa Bayoumi)

How to Be An Anti-Racist (Ibram X. Kendi)

How to Be Less Stupid About Race (Crystal M. Fleming)

Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism (Laura E. Gomez)

Me and White Supremacy (Layla F. Saad)

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Cathy Park Hong)

Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systematic Racism, and Engage in Collecting Healing (Anneliese A. Singh)

So You Want to Talk About Race? (Ijeoma Oluo)

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America (Michael Eric Dyson)

Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture & Identity (Winona Guo & Priya Vulchi)

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Richard Rothstein)

The Hate You Give (Angie Thomas)

The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing History (Rosalind S. Chou & Joe R. Feagin)

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Michelle Alexander)

White Fragility and Why Its So Hard for White People to Talk About Race (Robin DeAngelo)

White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Divided America (Margaret A. Hagerman)

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together and Other Conversations About Race (Beverly Daniel Tatum)

Spotlight Books

Black is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy

Chrysanthemum by Kevin Hughes

Crown: An Ode to a Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes

The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson

A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson

Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña

Malcom Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcom X by Ilyasah Shabazz

A Map into the World by Kao Kalia Yang

Saturday by Oge Mora

Sometimes People March by Tessa Allen

Your Name is a Song by Jamilah Thomkins-Bigelow

Lists

10 Children’s Books About Racism And Activism To Help Parents Educate Their Kids, HuffPost

23 Books to Teach Diversity (Teach Thought)

31 Children’s books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance, Embrace Race

2020 Summer Reading List (We're the People)

Biographies & Memoir: Life Lessons & Stories in Literature for Readers K-8 (NCTE)

Books About Racism and Social Justice (Common Sense Media)

Books on race and racism, by age, recommended by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Kidsburgh)

Books Matter (ADL)

#OwnVoices Young Fiction (Bibz)

Reading Race in Picture Books with Children, Embrace Race

Social Justice Book List

Supporting Healthy Racial Learning in Early Childhood, Embrace Race

These Books Can Help You Explain Racism and Protest to Your Kids, The New York Times

Where to Find Diverse Books (WNDB)