Are you doing some soul searching lately, wondering how you can be a better ally to the black community? I know I have! I also wonder how can I talk to my son about these issues.
I'm learning more and more each day what it means to be an anti-racist and the depths of oppression that people of color have been feeling. I still have a ways to go. And even though I might not understand how it feels to be judged based on the color of my skin, it doesn't mean I don't want to stand up for equality and justice. I want to learn and I want to help.
Knowledge is a powerful tool, so expand your world and dive in to one of these books to gain a better understanding of this racial divide in hopes of bringing us together. Thank you to local Boswell Book Company on Downer for contributing to this list.
- How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad, Robin DiAngelo
- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
For Children and Young Adults:
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
- This Book is Anti-racist: 20 lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell and Aurelia Durand
- Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan
- You Matter by Christian Robinson
- All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold and Suzanne Kaufman
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