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Black Lives Matter: Book Lists

DC Library Books

DC Library: Conversations About Race
Resources About Race for All Ages That Belong on Every Reading List

The DC Library has made available unlimited ebook copies of “Why We Can't Wait” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "Unapologetic: A Black, Queer and Feminist Mandate for Our Movement" by Charlene Carruthers, "Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor," by Layla F. Saad and "White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism" by Robin DiAngelo.

 

The Library has also made available unlimited audiobook copies of "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention" by Manning Marable, "Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More" by Janet Mock, "Sister Outsider--Essays and Speeches Crossing Press Feminist Series, Book 1" by Audre Lorde and "So You Want to Talk about Race" by Ijeoma Oluo.

List of Books in the CCPCS Equity Collection

Below we have listed all the titles available in the Capital City PCS Equity Professional Collection.

Anti-Bias Education in the Early Childhood Classroom by Katie Kissinger

Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves by Louise Derman-Sparks; Julie Olsen Edwards

The Art of Critical Pedagogy by Jeffrey M. R. Duncan-Andrade; Ernest Morrell

Beyond Heroes and Holidays by Enid Lee (Editor); Deborah Menkart (Editor); Margo Okazawa-Rey (Editor)

Black Ants and Buddhists by Mary Cowhey

Can We Talk about Race? by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Courageous Conversations about Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools by Curtis Linton (Editor); Glenn E. Singleton (Editor)

Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta L. (Lynn) Hammond

Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies by Django Paris (Editor); H. Samy Alim (Editor)

The Dreamkeepers: Succesful Teachers of African American Children by Gloria Ladson-Billings

Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation by Jeff Bale (Editor); Sarah Knopp (Editor)

The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom by Kristin Souers; Pete Hall

Gender Diversity and LGBTQ Inclusion in K-12 Schools by Sharon Verner Chappell; Karyl E. Ketchum; Lisa Richardson

Good White People:The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism by Shannon Sullivan

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi​

How to Be Less Stupid about Race by Crystal M. Fleming

The Inner Work of Racial Justice:Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness by Rhonda V. Magee

Leading Anti-Bias Early Childhood Programs by Louise Derman-Sparks; Debbie LeeKeenan; John Nimmo

Millennial Teachers of Color by Mary E. Dilworth (Editor); Lisa Delpit (Foreword by); H. Richard Milner (Editor)

Multiplication Is for White People by Lisa Delpit

Not Light, but Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom by Matthew R. Kay

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris

Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race by Derald Wing Sue

Rac(e)ing to Class: Confronting Poverty and Race in Schools and Classrooms by H. Richard Milner IV

The Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese A. Singh

The Skin That We Speak by Lisa Delpit (Editor); Joanne Kilgour Dowdy (Editor)

So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Start Where You Are, but Don't Stay There by H. Richard Milner

Teaching for Black Lives by Dyan Watson (Editor); Jesse Hagopian (Editor); Wayne Au (Editor);

Teaching When the World Is on Fire by Lisa Delpit (Editor)

These Schools Belong to You and Me: Why We Can't Afford to Abandon our Public Schools e by Deborah Meier; Emily Gasoi

The Trouble with Black Boys: And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education by Pedro A. Noguera

Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School by Carla Shalaby

Unconscious Bias in Schools:A developmental Approach to Exploring Race and Racism by Tracey A. Benson; Sarah E. Fiarman

We Can't Teach What We Don't Know: White Teachers, Multiracist Schools by Gary R. Howard; Sonia Nieto (Foreword by)

We Got This! Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be by Cornelius Minor

We Want to Do More Than Survive: abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom by Bettina Love

What a Coach Can Teach a Teacher by Jeffrey Michael Reyes Duncan-Andrade

What Does It Mean to Be White? by Robin DiAngelo

Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele

The White Ally Toolkit Workbook by David Campt

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo; Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by)

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Tatum

Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools by Tyrone C. Howard

 

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Articles on Reading Anti-Racists Books

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