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Antiracism Resources from Randall Library's Collection
Randall Library is committed to addressing systemic racism in our community. One effort we have made is to compile a list of personal reading and teaching resources. Titles may be in both print and electronic formats. We will continue to add titles to this list. If you have a recommended resource you would like the library to purchase, please contact Melissa Raymer, raymerm@uncw.edu.
Addressing & Talking About Racism -- Systemic Racism -- Afro-Latinx Experience -- Whiteness -- Activism -- Racism in Science, Health, and Technology -- Intersectional Perspectives -- Lived Experience -- Lived Experience (Non-Black POC Experiences) -- Historical Trauma -- Criminal Justice/Legal Issues -- Lethal Violence & Police Brutality -- Local & Other Books -- Children's and Young Adult Books -- Streaming Videos and DVDs -- Databases -- Journals -- Related Guides
Addressing & Talking About Racism
Biased : uncovering the hidden prejudice that shapes what we see, think, and do / Jennifer EberhardtBF575.P9 E34 2019
Black stats: African Americans by the numbers in the twenty-first century / Monique W. MorrisElectronic
Blindspot : hidden biases of good people / Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. GreenwaldBF575.P9 B25 2016
"Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" : and other conversations about race / Beverly Daniel TatumE185.625 .T38 1997
"Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" : and other conversations about race / Beverly Daniel Tatum
Everyday white people confront racial & social injustice : 15 stories / edited by Eddie Moore, Jr., Marguerite W. Penick-Parks, and Ali MichaelE184.A1 E887 2015
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor / Layla F. SaadHT1575 .S23 2020 (New and Popular Collection)
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor / Layla F. SaadElectronic
Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race / Derald Wing Sue HM1019 .S84 2015
Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race / Derald Wing Sue 
So You Want to Talk About Race / Ijeoma OluoE184.A1 O454 2019
So You Want to Talk About Race / Ijeoma OluoAfro-Latinx Experience
An African American and Latinx history of the United States / Paul OrtizE184.S75 O79 2018
Black Cuban, Black American : a memoir / Evelio Grillo
Down these mean streets / Piri ThomasF128.9.P8 T5
Drown / Junot DíazPS3554.I259 D76 1997
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot DíazPS3554.I259 B75 2007
Whiteness
Dying of Whiteness / Jonathan M. MetzlRA395.A3 .M489 2019
Habits of whiteness: a pragmatist reconstruction / Terrance MacMullan
The Invention of the White Race / Theodore AllenE185 .A44 1994
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness / George LipsitzE184.A1 L56 1998
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics / George Lipsitz
Tears we cannot stop : a sermon to white America / Michael Eric DysonE185.615 .D97 2017
When affirmative action was white : an untold history of racial inequality in twentieth-century America / Ira Katznelson E185.61 .K354 2005
White flight : Atlanta and the making of modern conservatism / Kevin M. KruseF294.A89 A233 2005
White fragility: Why It's So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism / Robin DiAngeloHT1521 .D486 2018
White Fragility : Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism / Robin DiAngelo Electronic
Waking up white : and finding myself in the story of race / Debby IrvingPrint - Currently Being Cataloged
Acting white? : rethinking race in "post-racial" America / Devon W. Carbado and Mitu GulatiKF384 .C37 2015
Acting white? : rethinking race in "post-racial" America / Devon W. Carbado and Mitu GulatiElectronic
Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History / Vron WareHQ1154 .W37 2015
Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History / Vron Ware
Disrupting White Supremacy From Within / Harvey, Case, GorslineE184.A1 D53 2004
Disrupting White SupremacyElectronic
Understanding white privilege : creating pathways to authentic relationships across race / Frances E. KendallHT1575 .K456 2006
Understanding white privilege : creating pathways to authentic relationships across race / Frances E. Kendall
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son / Tim WisePrint - Currently Being Cataloged
White like me : reflections on race from a privileged son : the remix / Tim Wise
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide / Carol AndersonE185.61 .A5438 2017
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide / Carol Anderson
White guys on campus : racism, white immunity, and the myth of "post-racial" higher education / Nolan L. CabreraActivism
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement / Barbara RansbyE185.97.B214 R36 2003
Electronic and print
March. Book one / John LewisE840.8.L43 A3 2013
March. Book two / John LewisE840.8.L43 A3 2015
March. Book three / John LewisE840.8.L43 A3 2016
The next American revolution: sustainable activism for the twenty-first century / Grace Lee BoggsElectronic
Remaking black power : how black women transformed an era / Ashley D. Farmer
Stay woke : a people's guide to making all Black lives matter / Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis Watts SmithE185.615 .L66 2019
Too heavy a load : Black women in defense of themselves, 1894-1994 / Deborah Gray WhiteE185.86 .W43875 1999
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black liberation / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black liberation / Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorE185.86 .T373 2016
Systemic Racism
Between the World and Me / Ta-Nehisi CoatesE185.615 .C6335 2015 (New and Popular Collection)
Black Marxism: the making of the Black radical tradition / Cedric J. Robinson
The Fire Next Time / James BaldwinE185.61 .B195 1993
The Fire Next Time / James BaldwinElectronic
The fire this time : a new generation speaks about race / edited by Jesmyn WardE185.615 .F526 2016
How to Be an Antiracist / Ibram X. KendiE184.A1 K344 2019
Racism without racists : color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in the United States / Eduardo Bonilla-SilvaE184.A1 B597 2010
Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America / Ibram X. KendiE185.61 .K358 2017
Stony the road : reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.E185.61 .G253 2019
Sundown towns : a hidden dimension of American racism / James W. LoewenE185.615 .L577 2005
The bluest eye / Toni MorrisonPS3563.O8749 B55 1994
The underground railroad : a novel / Colson WhiteheadPS3573.H4768 U53 2016 (New and Popular Collection)
Whitewashing race : the myth of a color-blind society / Michael K. Brown, et al.E185.615 .W465 2003
Print and electronic
How to be an antiracist / Ibram X. KendiElectronic
Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America / Ibram X. KendiRacism in Science, Health, & Technology
Algorithms of oppression: how search engines reinforce racism / Safiya Umoja NobleZA4230 .N63 2018
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca SklootRC265.6.L24 S55 2011
Medical apartheid : the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present / Harriet A. WashingtonR853.H8 W37 2006
Essentials of health justice : a primer / Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler and Joel B. Teitelbaum
The many costs of racism / Joe R. Feagin and Karyn D. McKinneyE185.86 .F434 2003
Examining Tuskegee : the infamous syphilis study and its legacy / Susan M. ReverbyR853.H8 R48 2009
Print and electronic
Superior : the return of race science / Angela SainiHT1506 .S25 2019
Killing the black body : race, reproduction, and the meaning of liberty / Dorothy Roberts
Killing the black body : race, reproduction, and the meaning of liberty / Dorothy RobertsHQ766.5.U5 R58 1999
Intersectional Perspectives
Black feminist thought : knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment / Patricia Hill CollinsHQ1426 .C633 1991
Black on both sides [electronic resource] : a racial history of trans identity / C. Riley SnortonElectronic
How we get free : Black feminism and the Combahee River Collective / edited and introduced by Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorHQ1426 .H689 2017
Sister outsider : essays and speeches / Audre LordePS3562.O75 S5 1984
This bridge called my back : writings by radical women of color / edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
Well-read black girl : finding our stories, discovering ourselves : an anthology / edited by Glory EdimLived Experiences
The autobiography of Malcolm X E185.97.L5 A3 1973
The cooking gene : a journey through African American culinary history in the Old South / Michael W. TwittyE185.89.F66 T95 2017
Heavy : an American memoir / Kiese LaymonE185.97.L394 A3 2018
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Maya AngelouPS3551 .N464Z466 2009
The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration / Isabel WilkersonE185.6 .W685 2010
The Blacker the Berry / Wallace ThurmanPS3539.H957 B55 1969
The farming of bones : a novel / Edwidge DanticatPS3554.A5815 F37 1998
Octavia E. Butler's Kindred / a graphic novel adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings ; introduction by Nnedi OkoraforPN6728.O27 D83 2017
Print and electronic
Kindred / Octavia E. ButlerElectronic
Song of Solomon / Toni MorrisonPS3563.O8749 S6 2004
I’m Still Here, Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness by Austin Channing BrownE185.615 .B7335 2018 (New and Popular Collection)
I’m Still Here, Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness by Austin Channing BrownLived Experience (Non-Black POC Experiences)
America is in the heart : a personal history / Carlos BulosanPR9550.9.B8 A8 1973
Tell me how it ends : an essay in forty questions / Valeria LuiselliJV6600 .L85 2017
An indigenous peoples' history of the United States / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
An indigenous peoples' history of the United States / Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizE76.8 .D86 2014
The making of Asian America : a history / Erika LeeE184.A75 L43 2016
Historical Trauma
Cultural trauma : slavery and the formation of African American identity / Ron EyermanE185.625 E96 2001
Print and electronic
Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940 / Jonathan Scott HollowayElectronic
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andres Resendez
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andres ResendezCriminal Justice/Legal Issues
At the dark end of the street : black women, rape, and resistance- a new history of the civil rights movement from Rosa Parks to the rise of black power / Danielle L. McGuireE185.61 .M4777 2011
The color of law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America / Richard RothsteinE185.61 .R8185 2017
The condemnation of blackness: race, crime, and the making of modern urban America / Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption / Bryan StevensonKF373.S7456 A3 2014 (New and Popular Collection)
Locking up our own : crime and punishment in black America / James Forman Jr.HV9950 .F67 2018
The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness / Michelle AlexanderHV9950 .A437 2012
North of slavery: the Negro in the free States, 1790-1860 / Leon F. Litwack
Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II / Douglas A. Blackmon E185.2 .B545 2008
Critical race theory: an introduction Electronic
The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness / Michelle AlexanderLethal Violence & Police Brutality
American lynching / Ashraf H.A. RushdyElectronic
Hands up, don't shoot : why the protests in Ferguson and Baltimore matter, and how they changed America / Jennifer E. Cobbina
On lynchings / Ida B. Wells-BarnettElectronic
An American marriage : a novel / Tayari JonesPS3610.O63 A84 2018
The sellout : a novel / Paul BeattyPS3552.E19 S45 2015
They can't kill us all : the story of the struggle for Black lives / Wesley LoweryHV7936.R3 L69 2017
They can't kill us all : the story of the struggle for Black lives / Wesley LoweryLocal & Other Books
Wilmington's lie : the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy / David Zucchino F264.W7 Z83 2020 (New and Popular Collection)
We love you, Charlie Freeman: a novel / Kaitlyn Greenidge
A different mirror : a history of multicultural America / Ronald TakakiE184.A1 T335 1993
Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy / edited by David S. Cecelski and Timothy B. Tyson
Strength through struggle : the chronological and historical record of the African-American community in Wilmington, North Carolina, 1865-1950 / by William M. Reaves ; edited by Beverly TettertonF264.W7 R42 1998
Crisis music: the cultural politics of rock against racism / Ian Goodyer
Cape Fear rising / Philip GerardPS3557.E635 C36 1994
Cape Fear Rising / Philip GerardElectronic
Is everyone really equal? : an introduction to key concepts in social justice education / Özlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngeloLC191 .S38 2017
Is everyone really equal? : an introduction to key concepts in social justice education / Ozlem Sensoy, Robin DiAngelo
We want to do more than survive : abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom / Bettina L. Love
We want to do more than survive : abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom / Bettina L. LoveLC2717 .L68 2019
The water dancer : a novel / Ta-Nehisi CoatesPS3603.O17 W38 2019
The water dancer : a novel / Ta-Nehisi Coates
Backlash : what happens when we talk honestly about racism in America / George YancyE185.615 .Y36 2018
Backlash : what happens when we talk honestly about racism in America / George Yancy 
Caste : the origins of our discontents / Isabel WilkersonPrint - Currently Being Cataloged
NC LIVE's Anti-Racism Reading List
This reading list is a curated selection of eBook titles available in the NC LIVE HomeGrown Collection.
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The undefeated / Kwame Alexander ; illustrated by Kadir NelsonJuvenile Easy A
New kid / Jerry Craft ; with color by Jim CallahanJuvenile Fiction C73n 2019
The Poet X : a novel / Elizabeth AcevedoJuvenile Fiction A348p 2018
With the Fire on High / Elizabeth AcevedoJuvenile Fiction A348w 2019
Shadowhouse fall / Daniel José OlderUNCW Ed Lab Juvenile YA Old 14485
Print (available only to Watson College of Education)
Hidden figures : the true story of four Black women and the space race / by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura FreemanJuvenile Dewey 510 S538h 2018
Out of Darkness / Ashley Hope PérezJuvenile Fiction P416ou 2015
The 57 Bus / Dashka SlaterJuvenile Dewey 364.1 S56f 2017
The Hate U Give / Angie ThomasJuvenile Fiction T3615h 2017
All American Boys / Jason Reynolds, Brendan KielyUNCW Ed Lab Juvenile YA Rey 14266
Print (available only to Watson College of Education)
Dear Martin / Nic StoneJuvenile Fiction S739d 2017
BlendedJuvenile Fiction D791bl 2018
SulweJuvenile Easy N
Thank You, Omu! Juvenile Easy M
CrowJuvenile Fiction W929c 2012
Stamped : racism, antiracism, and you / Jason Reynolds E184.A1 R49 2020 (New and Popular Collection)
Stamped : racism, antiracism, and you / Jason Reynolds 
An indigenous peoples' history of the United States for young people / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz ; adapted by Jean Mendoza and Debbie ReeseJuvenile Dewey 970.00497 M43i 2019
Streaming Videos and DVDs
Just MercyStreaming
Wilmington on FireF264.W7 W546 2015 (Documentary DVDs)
Streaming and DVD
The red capePN1995.9.D7 R429 2017 (Recreational DVDs)
Streaming and DVD
Fruitvale StationPN1995.9.D7 F784 2014 (Recreational DVDs)
DVD
Hidden FiguresStreaming
I am not your negroE185.61 .I19 2017 (Documentary DVDs)
DVD
Murder of Emmitt Till Streaming
Do the right thingStreaming
SelmaPN1995.9.D7 S445 2015 (Recreational DVDs)
DVD
If Beale Street Could TalkStreaming
BlacKkKlansman Streaming
Race: the Power of an IllusionStreaming
Databases
UmbraSearch
Search digitized content on African American history from over 1000 libraries and archives.
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Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database now also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
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African American Newspapers Series 1
Chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience, African American Newspapers, Series 1, features 280 newspapers from 35 states, including many rare and historically significant 19th-century titles. These titles published for or by African Americans constitute valuable primary sources for researchers exploring such diverse disciplines as cultural, literary and social history; ethnic studies and more.
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African American Newspapers Series 2
African American Newspapers, Series 2, 1835-1956 complements and expands on African American Newspapers, Series 1. Published in 22 states and the District of Columbia, the more than 75 newly available newspapers in Series 2 significantly increase access to primary sources for researchers across African and African American studies; political science; ethnic studies; diaspora studies; women’s studies; and cultural, literary and social history.
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African-American Poetry
Contains nearly 3,000 poems from African-American poets in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
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African-American Poetry (20th Century)
Contains nearly 9,000 poems from African American poets of the 20th century.
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Historical Black Newspapers
This collection of historical black newspapers provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Publications include:
- The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)
- Chicago Defender (1909-1975)
- Michigan Chronicle (1934-2010)
- New York Amsterdam News (1922 - 1993)
- Norfolk Journal and Guide (1916-2003)
- Pittsburgh Courier (1911 - 2002)
American Civil Liberties (ACLU) Papers
Drawing from the records of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), it focuses on civil rights, race, gender, and issues relating to the U.S. Supreme Court. The American Civil Liberties Union has throughout its history consistently stood at the center of controversies involving the rights of Americans. Its records offer researchers a unique view of the inner workings of the organization and the hundreds of groups with which the ACLU interacted.
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USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive
USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive allows users to search through and view more than 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide.
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Civil Rights and Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century
Features records of NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, CORE, and federal records on the black freedom struggle. Part of the History Vault database.
[More details]Journals
Race & class
Race, Gender & Class
The Journal of Race and Policy
The Journal of Gender, Race, and Justice
Race and social problems
Du Bois review : social science research on raceDisclaimer and Feedback
The collaborators on this guide have attempted to bring together select quality, relevant resources for the anti-racist issues in this guide, but we are not immune from the limits and hidden biases of our own privileges and perspectives.
We welcome and greatly appreciate any feedback and suggestions for the guide, particularly from the perspectives and experiences of the marginalized groups listed and not listed here.