This section contains books that have appeared on many recent anti-racist reading lists. They come from different genres and eras, but all grapple with aspects of anti-Black racism and how we might strive to stamp it out. The links will take you to their pages in SearchWorks, where you can either access the book in the Robert Crown Law Library or their text using the "Available Online" link on the left of the page.
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1963)
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (2015)
Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist (2019)
Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (2018)
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2012)
Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987) (e-book available)