Thoughtful Conversations Series: Racism

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We know there is a lot happening right now, and many conversations to be had as family, friends, communities, and neighbors.  With this ongoing series, we'll be focusing on parts of our collection to help support your conversations at home and with others.  Upcoming topics will be varied and include: fear and anxiety, mental health, and grief.

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Note: This is not a complete list.  Looking for more options or titles?  Please explore the library catalog or request help from the library staff.  

for Adults

• Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
• How to be an Antiracist by Ibam X. Kendi
• We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation by Jeff Chang
• Citizen: an American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
• The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin
• The Sisters Are Alright : changing the broken narrative of black women in America by Tamara Winfrey Harris
• A Perilous Path : talking race, inequality, and the law by Sherrilyn Ifill, Loretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson, and Anthony C. Thompson
• The Fire This Time : a new generation speaks about race edited by Jesmyn Ward
• Stony the Road : Reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Beneath a Ruthless Sun : a true story of violence, race, and justice lost and found by Gilbert King
• Considering Hate : violence, goodness, and justice in American culture and politics by Kay Whitlock and Michael Bronski
• A More Beautiful and Terrible History : the uses and misuses of civil rights history by Jeanne Theoharis
• The Civil Rights Movement edited by Paul A. Winters
• When They Call You a Terrorist : a Black Lives Matter memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
• The Warmth of Other Suns : the epic story of America's great migration by Isabel Wilkerson 

For young adults/teens 

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom : my story of the Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
• In the Shadow of Liberty : the hidden history of slavery, four presidents, and five Black lives by Kenneth C. Davis
• Color Me In: a novel by Natasha Diaz
• Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• Spies of Mississippi : the true story of the spy network that tried to destroy the civil rights movement by Rick Bowers
• Dig. by A.S. King
• The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor
• March: Book one written by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin; illustrated by Nate Powell

FOR CHILDREN

• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
• Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies & Little Misses of Color poems by Elizabeth Alexander & Marilyn Nelson; pictures by Floyd Cooper
• Boycott Blues : How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation by Andrea Davis Pinkney; illustrated by Brian Pinkney
• Color Me Dark : the diary of Nellie Lee Love, the great migration north by Patricia C. McKissack
• Let's Talk About Race by Julius Lester; illustrated by Karen Barbour
• This is the Dream by Diane Z. Shore & Jessica Alexander; illustrated by James Ransome
• The Smeds and the Smoos by Julia Donaldson; illustrated by Axel Scheffler
• Rosa Parks: the life of a civil rights heroine by Rob Shone; illustrated by Nick Spender
• The Berenstain Bears' New Neighbors by Stan and Jan Berenstain
• Rosa Parks: Young Rebel by Kathleen Kudlinski; illustrated by Meryl Henderson
• A Poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The Snowy Day by Andrea Davis Pinkney; pictures by Lou Fancher & Steve Johnson
• The Voice That Challenged A Nation : Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights by Russell Freedman
• Witness by Karen Hesse
• We Were There, Too! : young people in U.S. history by Phillip Hoose
• Hands Up! by Breanna J. McDaniel; illustrated by Shane W. Evans
• The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson; illustrated by Earl B. Lewis

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