The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander 

Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson

Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism & Racial Violence, ed. Williams, Williams & Blain

Fight of the Century, Michael Chabon (Editor)

Hood Feminism, Mikki Kendall

The 1619 Project, edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones

How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram Kendi

Love & Rage, Lama Rod Owens 

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery & the Making of American Capitalism, Edward Baptist

Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, Ruth Gilmore

My Grandmother’s Hands, Resmaa Menakem

Killing Rage: Ending Racism, Bell Hooks 

Me and White Supremacy Workbook, Layla F. Saad

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Joy DeGruy

Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond, Marc Lamont Hill

You Can’t Touch My Hair,  Phoebe Robinson

How Race Survived History, David Roediger

The Meaning of Freedom, Angela Y. Davis

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement, Angela Y. Davis

The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race, Jesmyn Ward

The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois

Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde incl. “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”

News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race & The American Media, J. González & J. Torres

Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools, Jonathan Kozol

So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson

White Rage: the Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide, Carol Anderson

Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching about Race and Racism to People Who Don't Want to Know, Tema Okun

A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn

$2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, Kathryn J. Edin

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson

Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People, Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald

Courageous Conversations on Race, Glenn Singleton

 A Black Man’s Guide to Law Enforcement in America, Shafiq Abdussabur

Let’s Get Free, Paul Butler

A Kind and Just Parent, William Ayers

White Like Me, Tim Wise

Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin

Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity (Law, Meaning, and Violence), Ann Arnett Ferguson

Peacemaking Circles and Urban Youth: Bringing Justice Home, Carolyn Boyes-Watson

Justice in America: The Separate Realities of Blacks and Whites, Mark Peffley and Jon Hurwitz

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

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria, Beverly Daniel Tatum

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge

White By Law, Ian F. Haney-Lopéz

The Construction of Whiteness, Stephen Middleton (Editor),  David R Roediger (Editor),  Donald M Shaffer (Editor)

It Takes a Village to Raise the Bar, Dr. Boyce Watkins

The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz