Below are some recommended resources for understanding racism and racial injustice. These titles are all available through our catalog, Overdrive/Libby, or hoopla. Please email lfd@noblenet.org or call 781-334-5411 with any questions or for further titles!
Children’s Resources
- A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
- Blended by Sharon M. Draper
- Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
- Something Happened In Our Town by Marianne Celano
- Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Teen Resources
- American Street by Ibi Zoboi
- All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
- Swing by Kwame Alexander
- Monster by Walter Dean Myers
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Dear Martin by Nic Stone
- How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
Adult Resources
- I am Not Your Negro – documentary
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness by Michelle Alexander
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele