How to Be an Antiracist and other Essential Titles

A reading list to help us move towards an antiracist society. 

Please note, due to high demand, some of these titles may be delayed arriving to you. 

There's a lot of work to do, and we want you to not just educate yourself but get involved. Here are some antiracist organizations you can donate to to help our community:

Donate to Black Lives Matter

Donate to the Massachusettes Bail Fund

Donate to the NAACP

Donate to the National Police Accountability Project

Donate to Reclaim the Block

Donate to the Greater Boston Food Bank

How to Be an Antiracist Cover Image

How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)

By Ibram X. Kendi
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525509288
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Published: One World - August 13th, 2019
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor Cover Image

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)

By Layla Saad, Robin Diangelo (Foreword by)
$25.99
ISBN: 9781728209807
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Published: Sourcebooks - January 28th, 2020
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide Cover Image

How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide (Paperback)

By Crystal Marie Fleming
$14.95
ISBN: 9780807039847
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Published: Beacon Press - August 20th, 2019
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Cover Image

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Paperback)

By Michelle Alexander
$18.99
ISBN: 9781620971932
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Published: New Press - January 7th, 2020
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? (City Lights Open Media) Cover Image

Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? (City Lights Open Media) (Paperback)

By Mumia Abu-Jamal
$15.95
ISBN: 9780872867383
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Published: City Lights Books - July 4th, 2017
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism Cover Image

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Paperback)

By Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by)
$16.00
ISBN: 9780807047415
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Published: Beacon Press - June 26th, 2018
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment Cover Image

Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment (Paperback)

By Angela J. Davis, Bryan Stevenson, Marc Mauer, Bruce Western, Jeremy Travis
$16.00
ISBN: 9780525436614
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Published: Vintage - May 15th, 2018
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning Cover Image

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning (Hardcover)

By Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
$18.99
ISBN: 9780316453691
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - March 10th, 2020
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Cover Image

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Paperback)

By Ibram X. Kendi
$19.99
ISBN: 9781568585987
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Published: Bold Type Books - August 15th, 2017
We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems Cover Image

We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems (Paperback)

By jessica Care moore
$19.99
ISBN: 9780062955289
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Published: Amistad - March 31st, 2020
As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation Cover Image

As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation (Paperback)

By William C. Anderson, Mariame Kaba (Foreword by), Zoé Samudzi
$16.00
ISBN: 9781849353168
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Published: AK Press - June 5th, 2018
How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance Cover Image

How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance (Paperback)

By Akiba Solomon, Kenrya Rankin
$17.99
ISBN: 9781568588490
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Published: Bold Type Books - March 26th, 2019
Citizen: An American Lyric Cover Image

Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)

By Claudia Rankine
$20.00
ISBN: 9781555976903
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Published: Graywolf Press - October 7th, 2014
No Fascist Usa!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today's Movements (City Lights Open Media) Cover Image

No Fascist Usa!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today's Movements (City Lights Open Media) (Paperback)

By Hilary Moore, James Tracy, Robin D. G. Kelley (Foreword by)
$16.95
ISBN: 9780872867963
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Published: City Lights Books - January 28th, 2020
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir Cover Image

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Paperback)

By Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele
$16.99
ISBN: 9781250306906
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - January 14th, 2020
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color Cover Image

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Paperback)

By Andrea Ritchie, Angela Y. Davis (Foreword by)
$21.00
ISBN: 9780807088982
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Published: Beacon Press - August 1st, 2017
From #blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation Cover Image

From #blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation (Paperback)

By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
$17.95
ISBN: 9781608465620
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Published: Haymarket Books - February 23rd, 2016
Chokehold: Policing Black Men Cover Image

Chokehold: Policing Black Men (Paperback)

By Paul Butler
$17.99
ISBN: 9781620974834
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Published: New Press - September 18th, 2018
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So You Want to Talk About Race (Paperback)

By Ijeoma Oluo
$16.99
ISBN: 9781580058827
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Published: Seal Press - September 24th, 2019
killing rage: Ending Racism Cover Image

killing rage: Ending Racism (Paperback)

By bell hooks
$18.00
ISBN: 9780805050271
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Published: Holt Paperbacks - October 15th, 1996
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America Cover Image

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (Paperback)

By Khalil Gibran Muhammad
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ISBN: 9780674062115
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Harvard University Press - November 30th, 2011
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty Cover Image

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Paperback)

By Dorothy Roberts
$17.00
ISBN: 9780679758693
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Published: Vintage - December 29th, 1998
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays Cover Image

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays (Paperback)

By Damon Young
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062684318
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Published: Ecco - January 14th, 2020
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Cover Image

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Paperback)

By Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780812980028
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - April 21st, 2009
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography Cover Image

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography (Paperback)

By Geraldine Audre Lorde
$16.99
ISBN: 9780895941220
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Published: Crossing Press - January 1st, 1982
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do Cover Image

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do (Paperback)

By Jennifer L. Eberhardt
$18.00
ISBN: 9780735224957
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Published: Penguin Books - March 3rd, 2020
An African American and Latinx History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY #4) Cover Image

An African American and Latinx History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY #4) (Paperback)

By Paul Ortiz
$16.00
ISBN: 9780807005934
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Published: Beacon Press - December 11th, 2018
Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field Cover Image

Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field (Hardcover)

By Howard Bryant
$24.95
ISBN: 9780807019559
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Published: Beacon Press - January 21st, 2020
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Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)

By James Baldwin, Edward P. Jones (Foreword by)
$15.00
ISBN: 9780807006238
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Published: Beacon Press - November 20th, 2012
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The End of Policing (Paperback)

By Alex S. Vitale
$17.95
ISBN: 9781784782924
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Published: Verso - August 28th, 2018
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine Cover Image

Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine (Paperback)

By Emily Bernard
$16.00
ISBN: 9781101972410
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Published: Vintage - December 3rd, 2019
A Black Women's History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY #5) Cover Image

A Black Women's History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY #5) (Hardcover)

By Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross
$27.95
ISBN: 9780807033555
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Published: Beacon Press - February 4th, 2020
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness Cover Image

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)

By Austin Channing Brown
$25.00
ISBN: 9781524760854
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Published: Convergent Books - May 15th, 2018
Women, Race, & Class Cover Image

Women, Race, & Class (Paperback)

By Angela Y. Davis
$16.95
ISBN: 9780394713519
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Published: Vintage - February 12th, 1983
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves Cover Image

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (Hardcover)

By Glory Edim
$20.00
ISBN: 9780525619772
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Published: Ballantine Books - October 30th, 2018
Barracoon: The Story of the Last

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)

By Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (Foreword by), Deborah G. Plant (Introduction by)
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062748218
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Published: Amistad - January 7th, 2020
The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner) Cover Image

The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner) (Paperback)

By Sarah M. Broom
$17.00
ISBN: 9780802149039
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Published: Grove Press - June 30th, 2020