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Be Antiracist: Read, Learn, Change

















Recommended by AntiRacistReads

Thanks to former BU Libraries Ambassador Solange Hackshaw for these additions.
AntiRacistReads - @bulibraries​

 

Read - Learn - Change

These books are available electronically from the Boston University Libraries.
Both the recommendations and the organization are from The Anti-Racist Reading List by Ibram X. Kendi with a few additions. We welcome your suggestions.

The Anti-Racist Reading List  The Atlantic Feb 2019
by Ibram X. Kendi, Founding Director, BU Center for Antiracist Research.

Definitions

   

Memoires

    

Essays

     

Slavery

  

  

Jim Crow

    

The Great Migration

Civil and Human Rights

   

Mass Incarceration

   

Police Violence

 
 

Health and Housing

 

Voting

Librarian Contact

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Fiction

Poetry

 

A People's History of the US

“There is not a country in world history in which racism has been more important, for so long a time, as the United States.”
― Boston University Professor Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present