An anti-racism ebooks reading list

The NC State University Libraries offers online access to books that support anti-racism learning. The selections below represent a small part of our collection; you can explore more eBooks about anti-racism, race awareness, and racial justice in our catalog. 

To find further resource suggestions at NC State and beyond, consult the Resources to Improve Our Racial Climate from The Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity. Additionally, please Suggest a Purchase if you would like access to materials not in our catalog, and we will do our best to accommodate your request. 

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander (2010)

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race, Beverly Daniel Tatum (2003)

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi (2016)

The Condemnation of Blackness Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, Khalil Gibran Muhammad (2010)

Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class, Ian Haney-López (2014)

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, Deirdre Cooper Owens (2017)

Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination, Alondra Nelson (2011)

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo (2018)

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, Patricia Hill Collins (2000)

How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi (2019)

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, Grace Lee Boggs (2012)

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond (2016)

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, Carol Anderson (2016)

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2014)

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, Dee Brown (2007)

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, Edward E. Baptist (2014)

Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism, Derrick Bell (1992)

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic (2012)

Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It, Mindy Thompson Fullilove (2016)

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, James W. Loewen (1996)

Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery, bell hooks (2015)

Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire (1970)

The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide, Meizhu Lui, Barbara Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Rose Brewer & Rebecca Adamson (2006) 

Taking on diversity : how we can move from anxiety to respect: a diversity doctor's best lessons from the campus, Rupert W. Nacoste (2015)