John R. Lewis Library: Cultural responsiveness: Nonfiction

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Resources & Reads for Teachers

Nonfiction Titles

Talking about race

Race Relations by Barbara Diggs; Sudipta Dasgupta (Illustrator); Richard Chapman (Illustrator); Vincent Southerland (Foreword by)
Call Number: 305.8 DIG

ISBN: 9781619305557

Publication Date: 2019-04-16
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Call Number: 305.8 OLU

ISBN: 9781580056779

Publication Date: 2018-01-16

Also available as an Audiobook
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
ISBN: 9780465060689

Publication Date: 2017-09-05
The Talk by Wade Hudson (Editor); Cheryl Willis Hudson (Editor)
ISBN: 9780593121610

Publication Date: 2020-09-29

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Activism

Democracy in Black by Eddie S. Glaude
Call Number: 305.896 GLA

ISBN: 9780804137416

Publication Date: 2016-01-12
I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin; Raoul Peck
Call Number: 323.119 BAL

ISBN: 9780525434696

Publication Date: 2017-02-07
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour by Peniel E. Joseph
Call Number: 323.119 JOS

ISBN: 9780805075397

Publication Date: 2006-07-25
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom by Lynda Blackmon Lowery; Elspeth Leacock (Retold by); Susan Buckley (Retold by); P. J. Loughran (Illustrator)
Call Number: 323.119 LOW

ISBN: 9780803741232

Publication Date: 2015-01-08
Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King; Martin Luther King; Jesse Jackson (Afterword by)
ISBN: 9780451527530

Publication Date: 2000-01-01

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Biography / Memoir

March Book One by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
Call Number: 92 LEW (Graphic Novel)

ISBN: 9781603093026

Publication Date: 2015

Book One, Two and Three available
Available in eBook format

Afro-Latinx Experience

An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
Call Number: 305.8 ORT

ISBN: 9780807005934

Publication Date: 2018-12-11

Memoir

Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
Call Number: 92 THO

ISBN: 9780679781424

Publication Date: 1997-11-25

Fiction

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Call Number: F ACE

ISBN: 9780062882769

Publication Date: 2020-05-05

Also available as an EBOOK
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Call Number: F ACE

ISBN: 9780062662804

Publication Date: 2018-03-06
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
Call Number: F ACE

ISBN: 9780062662835

Publication Date: 2019-05-07

Criminal justice / Legal issues

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Call Number: 305.8 ROT

ISBN: 9781631492853

Publication Date: 2017-05-02
Showdown by Wil Haygood
Call Number: 347.732 HAY

ISBN: 9780307957191

Publication Date: 2015-09-15
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
Call Number: 364.155 SLA

ISBN: 9780374303259

Publication Date: 2017-10-17

Also available in eBook format
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Call Number: 364.973 ALE

ISBN: 9781595581037

Publication Date: 2010-01-05

Biography / Memoir

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Call Number: 92 STE

ISBN: 9780812994520

Publication Date: 2014-10-21
117 Days by Ruth First; Angela Davis (Introduction by)
Call Number: 92 Fir

ISBN: 9780143105749

Publication Date: 2009-05-26

Fiction

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds; Brendan Kiely
Call Number: F REY

ISBN: 9781481463331

Publication Date: 2015-09-29

Also available as an EBOOK

Lived experience

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Call Number: 304.8 WIL

ISBN: 9780679444329

Publication Date: 2010-09-07
We Too Sing America by Deepa Iyer
Call Number: 305.8 IYE

ISBN: 9781620970140

Publication Date: 2015-10-27

Autobiography / Biography / Memoir

Sting Like a Bee by Leigh Montville
Call Number: 92 ALI

ISBN: 9780307950321

Publication Date: 2018-04-03
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou; Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by)
Call Number: 92 ANG

ISBN: 9780375507892

Publication Date: 2002-03-05
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Call Number: 92 LAY

ISBN: 9781501125652

Publication Date: 2018-10-16
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup; Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Introduction by)
Call Number: 92 NOR

ISBN: 9781476767345

Publication Date: 2013-11-19
Strong Inside by Andrew Maraniss
Call Number: 92 WAL

ISBN: 9780826520241

Publication Date: 2016-08-01
The Light of Truth by Ida B. Wells; Mia Bay (Editor, Introduction by, Notes by); Henry Louis Gates (Editor)
Call Number: 92 WEL

ISBN: 9780143106821

Publication Date: 2014-11-25

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Call Number: 92 X

ISBN: 9780345379757

Publication Date: 1992-09-29
Malcolm X by Manning Marable
Call Number: 92 X

ISBN: 9780143120322

Publication Date: 2011-12-28

Fiction

Internment by Samica Ahmed
Call Number: F AHM

ISBN: 9780316522830

Publication Date: 2019
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Call Number: F BUT

ISBN: 9780807083697

Publication Date: 2004-02-01
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Call Number: F HUR

ISBN: 9780060838676

Publication Date: 2013-03-19
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Call Number: F MOR

ISBN: 9781400033423

Publication Date: 2004-06-08
Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
Call Number: F PER

ISBN: 9781467742023

Publication Date: 2015-09-01
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Call Number: F REY

ISBN: 9781481438254

Publication Date: 2017-10-24
X by Ilyasah Shabazz; Kekla Magoon
Call Number: F SHA

ISBN: 9780763669676

Publication Date: 2015-01-06
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Call Number: F THO

ISBN: 9780062498533

Publication Date: 2017-02-28

Poetry & Literature

Writings on the Wall by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; TIME
Call Number: 305.509 ABD

ISBN: 9781618931719

Publication Date: 2016-08-23
The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader by David Lewis
Call Number: 810.8 POR

ISBN: 9780670845101

Publication Date: 1994-06-01
Counting Descent by Clint Smith
ISBN: 9781938912658

Publication Date: 2016-09-15

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Furious Flower by Joanne V. Gabbin; Frank X. Walker (Contribution by); Michael Collins (Contribution by); Nabila Lovelace (Contribution by); Nandie Comer (Contribution by); Natasha Marin (Contribution by); Natasha Oladokun (Contribution by); Nate Marshall (Contribution by); Nagueyalti Warren (Contribution by); Nicole Sealey (Contribution by); Nkosi Nkululeko (Contribution by); Opal Moore (Contribution by); F. Douglas Brown (Contribution by); Evie Shockley (Contribution by); Ladan Osman (Contribution by); Destiny O. Birdsong (Contribution by); Mitchel L. H. Douglas (Contribution by); DaMaris B. Hill (Contribution by); Philip B. Williams (Contribution by); E. Ethelbert Miller (Contribution by); Erica Hunt (Contribution by); Duriel E. Harris (Contribution by); Douglas Manuel (Contribution by); Douglas Kearney (Contribution by); Dante Micheaux (Contribution by); Jericho Brown (Contribution by); Jacqueline Jones LaMon (Contribution by); Lauren K. Alleyne (Editor); Janice Harrington (Contribution by); Hayes Davis (Contribution by); Clemonce Heard (Contribution by); DeMaris B. Hill (Contribution by); Cynthia Manick (Contribution by); Curtis Crisler (Contribution by); Cortney Lamar Charleston (Contribution by); Cornelius Eady (Contribution by); C. M. Burroughs (Contribution by); John Murillo (Contribution by); Rita Dove (Foreword by); Tara Betts (Contribution by); t'ai freedom ford (Contribution by); Shayla Lawson (Contribution by); Sherese Francis (Contribution by); Shauna M. Morgan (Contribution by); Samantha Thornhill (Contribution by); Safiya Sinclair (Contribution by); Safia Elhillo (Contribution by); Remica Bingham-Risher (Contribution by); Reginald Dwayne Betts (Contribution by); John Bracey (Contribution by); Randall Horton (Contribution by); Raina León (Contribution by); Philiip B. Williams (Contribution by); Donika Kelly (Contribution by); Dominique Christina (Contribution by); Dexter L. Booth (Contribution by); Destiny O. Birdson (Contribution by); Derrick Weston Brown (Contribution by); DéLana R. A. Dameron (Contribution by); David Mills (Contribution by); Iain Haley Pollock (Contribution by); Darlene Anita Scott (Contribution by); Metta Sáma (Contribution by); Sharan Strange (Contribution by); Candice Wiley (Contribution by); Bianca Lynne Spriggs (Contribution by); Ana-Maurine Lara (Contribution by); Amber Flora Thomas (Contribution by); Amaud Jamaul Johnson (Contribution by); Amanda Johnston (Contribution by); Ama Codjoe (Contribution by); Gregory Pardlo (Contribution by); Alan W. King (Contribution by); Abdul Ali (Contribution by); Kwame Dawes (Contribution by); Yalie Kamara (Contribution by); Xandria Phillips (Contribution by); Tyehimba Jess (Contribution by); Tracy K. Smith (Contribution by); Tony Medina (Contribution by); Toi Derricotte (Contribution by); Tiana Clark (Contribution by); Aaron Van Jordan (Contribution by); Thylias Moss (Contribution by); Teri Ellen Cross Davis (Contribution by); Taylor Johnson (Contribution by); Cedric Tillman (Contribution by); Camille Dungy (Contribution by); Bettina Judd (Contribution by); avery r. young (Contribution by); Chanda Feldman (Contribution by); Joshua B. Bennett (Contribution by); J. P. Howard (Contribution by); Glenis Redmond (Contribution by); Julian Randall (Contribution by); Justin Philip Reed (Contribution by); Kamilah Aisha Moon (Contribution by); Keith S. Wilson (Contribution by); Kevin Simmonds (Contribution by); Khadijah Queen (Contribution by); Korey Williams (Contribution by); Krista Franklin (Contribution by); L. Lamar Wilson (Contribution by); Lauren Russell (Contribution by); Fred Joiner (Contribution by); Lillian-Yvonne Bertram (Contribution by); Lynne Procope (Contribution by); Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon (Contribution by); Jackson (Contribution by); Marcus Jackson (Contribution by); Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie (Contribution by); Matthew Shenoda (Contribution by); Mahtem Shiferraw (Contribution by); Mendi Lewis Obadike (Contribution by); Meta DuEwa Jones (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780810141544

Publication Date: 2019-12-16

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We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Wade Hudson (Editor); Cheryl Willis Hudson (Editor)
ISBN: 9780525580454

Publication Date: 2019-12-31

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Woke by Mahogany L. Browne; Theodore Taylor (Illustrator); Jason Reynolds (Contribution by); Elizabeth Acevedo; Olivia Gatwood
Call Number: 811 WOK

ISBN: 9781250311207

Publication Date: 2020-03-10

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Racism in Science

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Call Number: 510.925 LEE

ISBN: 9780062363602

Publication Date: 2016-12-06
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Call Number: 616.027 SKL

ISBN: 9781400052172

Publication Date: 2010-02-02

Systematic racism

Shame by Shelby Steele
Call Number: 305.8 STE

ISBN: 9780465066971

Publication Date: 2015-02-24
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Read by)
Call Number: 305.9 COA

ISBN: 9780451482211

Publication Date: 2015-09-08

Also available as an EBOOK
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Call Number: 305.896 BAL

ISBN: 9780679744726

Publication Date: 1992-12-01
The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
Call Number: 305.896 WAR

ISBN: 9781501126352

Publication Date: 2017-06-20
Separate and Unequal by Steven M. Gillon
Call Number: 363.323 GIL

ISBN: 9780465096084

Publication Date: 2018-03-06
The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
Call Number: 364.134 TYS

ISBN: 9781476714851

Publication Date: 2017-12-05
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
ISBN: 9780525509288

Publication Date: 2019-08-13

Also available as an EBOOK
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
ISBN: 9781568584645

Publication Date: 2016-04-12

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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds; Ibram X. Kendi
ISBN: 9780316453691

Publication Date: 2020-03-10

Also available as an EBOOK

Educator guide for Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning

Fiction

There There by Tommy Orange
Call Number: F ORA

ISBN: 9780525520375

Publication Date: 2018-06-05
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: F WHI

ISBN: 9780385542364

Publication Date: 2016-08-02

Whiteness

White Rage by Carol Anderson
Call Number: 305.8 AND

ISBN: 9781632864123

Publication Date: 2016-07-27
Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson
Call Number: 305.8 DYS

ISBN: 9781250135995

Publication Date: 2017-01-17
A More Beautiful and Terrible History by Jeanne Theoharis
Call Number: 305.8 THE

ISBN: 9780807063484

Publication Date: 2019-02-12
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
ISBN: 9780807047422

Publication Date: 2018

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When Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
ISBN: 9780393328516

Publication Date: 2006-08-17

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