Here you will find a collection of books, ebooks, and articles from the Viterbo Library with themes of anti-racism, history of racism in America, fiction addressing race and racism, and books for children and young people. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but is intended to give readers a place to start. This is an in-progress and ever evolving guide so please check back periodically for new resources.
Use the links below to navigate to an alphabetical list of the books in the galleries.
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Children of Blood and Bone by 
Citizen: An American Lyric by 
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf by 
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) by 
Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist) by 
Sing, Unburied, Sing by 
Well-Read Black Girl by 
When the Emperor Was Divine by 
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by 
Between the World and Me by 
The Black and the Blue by 
The Black Panther Party by 
The Color of Water by 
Ida B. the Queen by 
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by 
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by 
In Search of Our Mother's Gardens by 
Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country As Deadwood Dick, by Himself by 
Redefining Realness by 
Uncompromising Activist:Richard Greener, first black graduate of Harvard College by 
How to Argue with a Racist by 
How to Be an Antiracist by 
I Can't Breathe by 
The New Jim Crow by 
Sister Outsider by 
So You Want to Talk about Race by 
Stamped from the Beginning by 
Their Eyes Were Watching God by 
This Book Is Anti-Racist by 
This Bridge Called My Back by 
Waking up White by 
White Fragility by 
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by 
An African American and Latinx History of the United States by 
America's Original Sin by 
Baldwin: Collected essays by 
Black power : the politics of liberation in America by 
The Color of Law by 
Coming to America (Second Edition) by 
A Different Mirror by 
The End of Policing by 
Facing East from Indian Country by 
From Slavery to Freedom by 
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime by 
The History of White People by 
"I Don't See Color" : Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege by 
Immigration and Migration: In Context by 
The Impacts of Racism and Bias on Black People Pursuing Careers in Science, Engineering, and Medicine by 
The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century by 
Invisible No More by 
Islamophobia: Understanding Anti-Muslim Racism Through the Lived Experiences of Muslim Youth by 
Islamophobia and Racism in America by 
Lies My Teacher Told Me by 
Locking up Our Own by 
Microaggressions in Everyday Life by 
Native American Testimony by 
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable activism for the twenty-first century by 
On Account of Race by 
Open Veins of Latin America by 
A People's History of the United States by 
The Politics of Islamophobia: Race, Power and Fantasy by 
Racism: A Short History by 
Racism without Racists by 
Rise of the Warrior Cop by 
Standing with Standing Rock by 
This Stops Today Eric Garners by 
The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago by 
Uprooting Racism - 4th Edition by 
We Were Eight Years in Power by 
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? by 
Because They Marched by 
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Freedom by 
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People by 
The Port Chicago 50 by 
We Are All Born Free by 
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by 
What Is Given from the Heart by 
Young Water Protectors by 
