Books

Northwest Education Services believes in empowering one’s learning. We have curated the resources below in the various mediums for you to expand your learning. Choose what is best for your learning needs.

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann 

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann

A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City by Drew Philp

An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz

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

Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illustrations)

A Kids Book About Racism by Jelani Memory

Baby Feminists by Libby Babbott-Klein, Jessica Walker (Illustrations)

Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties: An Indian Declaration of Independence by Vine Deloria Jr.

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 

Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by John G. Neihardt, Black Elk

Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall by Carl T. Rowan 

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall 

How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi 

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown 

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson 

Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks 

Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen 

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad

Race Dialogues: A Facilitator's Guide to Tackling the Elephant in the Classroom

Raising Race Questions: Whiteness and Inquiry in Education by Ali Michael 

Reading for Their Life: (Re)Building the Textual Lineages of African American Adolescent Males by Alfred W. Tatum 

Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives by Sendhil Mullainathan 

Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (A Transgender Memoir) by Jackson Bird 

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo 

The Color of Crime: Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment, and Other Macroaggressions by Katheryn Russell-Brown

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

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas 

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

The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart by Alicia Garza 

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee 

Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving 

We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina L. Love 

What's Race Got to Do with It?: Why It's Time to Stop the Stupidest Argument in America by Larry Elder

Whereas by Layla Long Soldier 

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo 

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, Luisa Uribe (Illustrator)