Anti-racism Resources

Movies Available from the Library 

• 12 Years a Slave
• Do the Right Thing
• Fences
• Fruitvale Station
• The Hate U Give
• Hidden Figures
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• In the Heat of the Night
• Malcolm X
• Selma 

Documentaries to Stream from Hoopla

• Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution
• Broken on All Sides
• A Century of Black Cinema
• I Am Not Your Negro
• Ken Burns: The Central Park Five
• A Long Way from Home
• The Loving Story
• Michelle Obama: Forward Motion
• Slavery by Another Name
• Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
• A Bitter Legacy
• Vincent Who?: The Murder of a Chinese-American Man

Documentaries to Stream from Kanopy

• bell hooks
• How Racism Harms White Americans
• Race - The Power of an Illusion
• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (4 film series)
• The Talk: Race in America
• A Thousand Midnights
• Trouble Behind
• We All We Got
• When Justice Isn't Just
• White Like Me 
• Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
• The Slanted Screen: Hollywood’s Representation of Asian Men in Film & Television
• The Grace Lee Project: Deconstructing an Asian-American Stereotype

Books for Adults Available at the Library

Non-Fiction 

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Biased : Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer Eberhardt
• Citizen by Claudia Rankine
• Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
• Good Trouble: Lessons for the Civil rights Playbook by Christopher Nixon
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Stamped from the Beginning : The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram Kendi
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
• They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
• All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung
• Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir by Eddie Huang
• Obit: Poems by Victoria Chang
• The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong-Kingston

Fiction

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Meridian by Alice Walker
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
• Passing by Nella Larsen
• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• The Travelers by Regina Porter
• We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
• New Waves by Kevin Nguyen
• Interior Chinatown by Charles Yi
• The Wangs vs. The World by Jade Chang

Books for Teens Available at the Library

Non-Fiction 

• A Few Red Drops: the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Claire Hartfield
• Girls Resist!: a Guide to Activism, Leadership, and Starting a Revolution by KaeLyn Rich
• Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen
• March Book One, Two, and Three by John Lewis
• Say Her Name by Zetta Elliot
• Sexism and Race by Duchess Harris
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds
• This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell
• We Are Not Yet Equal by Carol Anderson
• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Fiction 

• All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
• Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America by Balzer and Bray
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• I’m Not Dying With you Tonight by Kimberly Jones
• Light It Up by Kekla Magoon
• Piecing Me Together by Rene Watson
• Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles
• X by Ilyasah Shabazz

Books for Youth Available at the Library

Non-Fiction 

• Can I Touch Your Hair? by Irene Latham
• I, Too, Am America by Langston Hughes
• Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester
• Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham
• Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America by Sharon Robinson
• Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow by James Sturm
• Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
• Tell All the Children Our Story by Tonya Bolden
• This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell
• We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Crown Books for Young Readers
• Fred Korematsu Speaks Up by Laura Atkins
• Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds by Paula Yoo

Picture Books 

• Black is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy
• The Breaking News by Sarah Lynne Reul
• The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
• Hands Up! By Breanna McDaniel
• I Am Enough by Grace Byers
• In Your Hands by Carole Boston Weatherford
• Skin Again by Bell Hooks
• Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano
• What Can A Citizen Do? by Dave Eggers
• A Map Into the World by Kao Kalia Yang

Chapter Books 

• Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz
• Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• Blended by Sharon M. Draper
• Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice by Phillip Hoose
• From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks
• Front Desk by Kelly Yang
• Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
• The Watsons Go To Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis

Websites

• 75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice
• The 1619 Project from the New York Times
• Black Lives Matter
• Black People Need Stronger White Allies: Here’s How to Be One
• Food Has Always Been Political
• How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion - TEDx video
• How to Make this Moment the Real Turning Point for Change
• Smithsonian: Tools for Talking About Race and Being Antiracist
• Who Gets to be Afraid in America?
• Asian Americans Advancing Justice
• Stand Against Hatred
• Stop Discriminasian

Websites for Parents

• Anti Racism for Kids 101: Starting to Talk About Race
• How To Talk to your Kids About the Protests
• Parents Guide to Preventing and Responding to Prejudice
• Raising Equity: Talking to Kids about Racism Episode 1
• Raising Race-Conscious Children
• Resources for Talking About Race Racism and Racialized Violence with Kids
• Teaching Your Child about Black History
• Educators 4 Social Change

Podcasts

• 1619 (New York Times)
• Dear White Women
• Ear Hustle
• Justice In America
• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
• The Nod
• NPR’s Code Switch
• Seeing White
• Speaking of Racism
• Teaching Hard History: American Slavery
• Asia In-Depth Podcast: The Coronavirus and Anti-Asian Racism
• When Xenophobia Spreads Like a Virus

Organizations to Follow on Social Media

• Antiracism Center: Twitter
• Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• United We Dream: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Asian Law Caucus: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook