Top 10 Books to Build Your Antiracist Reading List


How To Be An Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

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|August 13, 2019

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” ( Time ) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves. “The most courageous book to…
21 Things You May Not Know About The Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation With…

Bob Joseph

Paperback

|April 10, 2018

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#1 National Bestseller Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous Peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity…
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Cathy Park Hong

Paperback

|March 2, 2021

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The Skin We're In: A Year Of Black Resistance And Power

Desmond Cole

Hardcover

|January 28, 2020

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A bracing, provocative, and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's most celebrated and uncompromising writers, Desmond Cole. The Skin We're In will spark a national conversation, influence policy, and inspire activists. In his 2015…
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

Tanya Talaga

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|September 30, 2017

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The shocking true story covered by the Guardian and the New York Times of the seven young Indigenous students who were found dead in a northern Ontario city. In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away from…
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

Nikole Hannah-jones

Hardcover

|November 16, 2021

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So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo

Paperback

|September 24, 2019

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In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans--has put a media spotlight…
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People +…

Leah Thomas

Paper over Board

|March 8, 2022

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A primer on intersectional environmentalism aimed at educating the next generation of activists on how to create meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable change. The Intersectional Environmentalist is an introduction to the intersection between environmentalism,…
My Conversations With Canadians

Lee Maracle

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|September 1, 2017

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Finalist for the 2018 Toronto Book Award My Conversations With Canadians is the book that "Canada 150" needs. On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one she couldn?t possibly answer at that moment.…
Me And White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change The World, And Become A Good Ancestor

Layla Saad

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|January 28, 2020

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The New York Times and USA Today bestseller! Layla Saad is one of the most important and valuable teachers we have right now on the subject of white supremacy and racial injustice."-New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert Based on the viral…

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