Expand Your Social Consciousness

August 23, 2017 | melissa c

This list of books from our collection includes academic analyses from various disciplines, poetry, in-depth journalistic accounts, fiction, biography, statistics, interviews, history, poetry, and memoir. What these works have in common are their attempts to understand the historic and contemporary roles of race, ethnicity, and racism in the United States.  

Between the world and me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Also available in: e-book | audiobook | large print
Burqas, baseball, and apple pie : being Muslim in America by Ranya Idliby
The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Also available in: e-book
Yellow : race in America beyond Black and white by Frank H. Wu
The sisters are alright : changing the broken narrative of black women in America by Tamara Winfrey Harris
Also available in: e-book | e-audiobook
Living Islam out loud : American Muslim women speak by S. Abdul-Ghafur, Ed.
Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II / Douglas A. Blackmon by Douglas A. Blackmon
Also available in: video | e-video
Coming to America : a history of immigration and ethnicity in American life by Roger Daniels
How does it feel to be a problem? : being young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi
White like me: reflections on race from a privileged son : the remix [electronic resource] by Tim J Wise
Also available in: e-audiobook
We too sing America : South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh immigrants shape our multiracial future by Deepa Iyer
The color of law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Also available in: e-book
Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America by Ibram X Kendi
Also available in: e-book | e-audiobook
The making of Black lives matter : a brief history of an idea by Christopher J Lebron
The making of Asian America : a history by Erika Lee
Also available in: e-audiobook
The fire next time by James Baldwin
The fire this time : a new generation speaks about race by Jesmyn West, Ed.
Also available in: e-book
Harvest of empire : a history of Latinos in America by Juan González
Blind goddess : a reader on race and justice by Alexander Papachristou, Ed.
Invisible man, got the whole world watching : a young black man's education by Mychal Denzel Smith
Also available in: e-book
Invisible man by Ralph Ellison
Also available in: e-book | audiobook
The Muslims are coming! : Islamophobia, extremism, and the domestic war on terror by Arun Kundnani
Also available in: e-video
Sister citizen : shame, stereotypes, and Black women in America by Melissa V. Harris-Perry
Also available in: e-audiobook
The history of White people by Nell Irvin Painter
Understanding mass incarceration : a people's guide to the key civil rights struggle of our time by James William Kilgore
Our black sons matter : mothers talk about fears, sorrows, and hopes by G. Yancy, M. Davidson, S. Hadley, Eds.
Colorblind : the rise of post-racial politics and the retreat from racial equity by Tim J Wise
Tears we cannot stop : a sermon to white America by Michael Eric Dyson
Also available in: e-book
Born bright : a young girl's journey from nothing to something in America by C. Nicole Mason
America's Original Sin : Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis
Also available in: e-audiobook
The hate u give by Angie Thomas
Also available in: e-book | audiobook | e-audiobook
No god but God : the origins, evolution, and future of Islam by Reza Aslan
Invisible no more : police violence against black women and women of color by Andrea J Ritchie
Dreamland burning by Jennifer Latham
If the oceans were ink : an unlikely friendship and a journey to the heart of the Quran by Carla Power
Black stats : African Americans by the numbers in the twenty-first century by Monique W. Morris
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Also available in: e-book | audiobook | e-audiobook | video | large print
Mohamed's ghosts : an American story of love and fear in the homeland by Stephan Salisbury
Citizen : an American lyric by Claudia Rankine
Also available in: e-audiobook
The faith club [electronic resource]: a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew by R. Idliby, P. Warner, S. Oliver
White rage : the unspoken truth of our racial divide by Carol Anderson
The story of the Qurʼan : its history and place in Muslim life by Ingrid Mattson
The short and tragic life of Robert Peace : a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs
Also available in: e-audiobook
I speak for myself : American women on being Muslim by M. Ebrahimji, Z. T. Suratwala, Eds.