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Nonfiction Books Available Through the Gateway Libraries

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Nonfiction eBooks Available Through Overdrive

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

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