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Gateway Libraries

Nonfiction Books Available Through the Gateway Libraries

Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
How to be Less Stupid About Race by Crystal M. Fleming
Race Relations in America: Examining the Facts
So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Olu
Dear White America by Tim Wise
White Rage by Carol Anderson
Black Lives Matter
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The 1619 Project: a new origin story
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The Antiracism Handbook
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A Colony in a Nation by Chris Hayes
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Racial Discrimination and Criminal Justice

Nonfiction eBooks Available Through Overdrive

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How to be an antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues by Steven Rogers
Chasing Me to My Grave by Winfred Rembert
Biased by Jennifer L Eberhardt
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The New Jim Crow Study Guide and Call to Action by Veterans of Hope
Becoming Brave Finding the Courage to Pursue Racial Justice Now  by Brenda Salter McNeil
The 1619 Project A New Origin Story  by Nikole Hannah-Jones
The Sum of Us What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together  by Heather McGhee
Until Justrice be Done by Kate Masur
Enraged, Rattled, and Wronged by Kristin Anderson
Frederick Douglass Classics:
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
The Burning House Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America  by Anders Walker
White Evangelical Racism by Anthea Butler
You Can Keep That to Yourself A Comprehensive List of What Not to Say to Black People, for Well-Intentioned People of Pallor  by Adam Smyer
Sway Unravelling Unconscious Bias  by Pragya Agarwal
Speaking of Race How to Have Antiracist Conversations That Bring Us Together  by Patricia Roberts-Miller
Anti-Racist Ally An Introduction to Activism and Action  by Sophie Williams

Nonfiction Audiobooks available through Overdrive

His Name Is George Floyd One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice  by Robert Samuels
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The Color of Money Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap  by Mehrsa Baradaran
Three Girls from Bronzeville A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood by Dawn Turner
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
Stamped from the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
How the Word Is Passed A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America  by Clint Smith
Medical Apartheid The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present  by Harriet A. Washington
The Condemnation of Blackness Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America  by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Until I Am Free by Keisha N. Blain
Me and White Supremacy Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor  by Layla F. Saad
I'm Still Here Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness  by Austin Channing Brown
White Too Long The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity  by Robert P. Jones