How to Be an Antiracist and other Essential Titles

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

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

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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 1st, 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
$7.98
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
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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 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
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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
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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