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Black Lives Matter: Adult Nonfiction

February 9, 2021 | Patton

The following books affirm Black lives, experiences, culture, and offer openings for discussions about racial injustice. Click here for more titles on the topic. 

Preaching Black lives (matter)
Caste : the origins of our discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Black futures
The making of Black lives matter : a brief history of an idea by Christopher J Lebron
When they call you a terrorist : a Black Lives Matter memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Begin again : James Baldwin's America and its urgent lessons for our own by 1968- Jr. Eddie S. Glaude
Make change : how to fight injustice, dismantle systemic oppression, and own our future by Shaun King
Long time coming : reckoning with race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo
Have Black lives ever mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
On the other side of freedom : the case for hope by 1985- DeRay Mckesson
The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
When we fight, we win : twenty-first-century social movements and the activists that are transforming our world by Greg Jobin-Leeds
America's Original Sin : Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis
Overturning Brown : the segregationist legacy of the modern school choice movement by Steve Suitts
Between the world and me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The anatomy of racial inequality by Glenn C Loury
How we fight white supremacy : a field guide to Black resistance by Akiba Solomon
Faces at the bottom of the well : the permanence of racism by 1930-2011 Derrick Bell
Unapologetic : a Black, queer, and feminist mandate for radical movements by 1985- Charlene A. Carruthers
Black and blue : inside the divide between the police and black America by 1970- Jeff Pegues
How to be an antiracist by Ibram X Kendi
Backlash : what happens when we talk honestly about racism in America by George Yancy
How we fight white supremacy : a field guide to Black resistance by Akiba Solomon
Soul on ice by 1935- Eldridge Cleaver
Across that bridge : life lessons and a vision for change by 1940 February 21- John Lewis
The souls of Black folk by 1868-1963 W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
We matter : athletes and activism by interviewer Etan Thomas
They can't kill us all : Ferguson, Baltimore, and a new era in America's racial justice movement by Wesley Lowery
Freedom is a constant struggle : Ferguson, Palestine, and the foundations of a movement by 1944- Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne) Davis
You can't touch my hair and other things I still have to explain by Phoebe Robinson
The fire this time : a new generation speaks about race
The fire next time by 1924-1987 James Baldwin
Things that make white people uncomfortable by 1985- Michael Bennett
White fragility : why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin J DiAngelo