This resource guide is meant to help our community of teachers, students, and parents deepen their antiracist work. Given current events (June, 2020), this list focuses on African American and Black experience, and the work that White people can do to address racism. This is by no means a finite list, but a living, dynamic resource that will continue to grow with time. We welcome further suggestions and will expand to include other groups in time.
If you decide to purchase books, please consider purchasing from Frugal Bookstore, the only Black-owned, independent bookstore in Boston, or another Black-owned bookstore.
Additional Lists:
Race Matters Faculty Group Recommended Reads: includes works by and about other races and ethnicities.
Reading for Equity, from the WPS Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Young Ethnic Scholars: Protests Dos and Don'ts: includes suggestions for reading and viewing.
Racial Violence Syllabus: Historical context syllabus from Monmouth University
Teaching about race when there are only a few BIPOC students in class, Erica Pernell
The American Nightmare, Ibram X. Kendi
There is No Neutral: Nice White People Can Still Be Complicit in a Racist Society, Robin DiAngelo
If We Aren't Addressing Racism, We Aren't Addressing Trauma, Dena Simmons
How to Be an Antiracist Educator, Dena Simmons
Our Pain Is Not Your Classroom, Jennifer Williams
Equity Literacy For All, Paul C. Gorski
Affirming Black Lives Without Inducing Trauma
Understanding Unconscious Bias and Unintentional Racism, Jean Moule
Breaking the Habit of "White Silence," Chris Marquardt
75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice, Corinne Shutack
Addressing Race and Trauma in the Classroom
Why Teaching Black Lives Matter Matters
Books: Modern 
How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, Monique W. Morris
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race, Jesmyn Ward
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele
Me and White Supremacy, Layla F. Saad
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Austin Channing Brown
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, Brittney C. Cooper
Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X (as told to Alex Haley)
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race, Beverly Daniel Tatum
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, Michael Eric Dyson
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and A New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement, Wesley Lowery
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, Carol Anderson
Books: Historical Context 
Stamped! Racism, Antiracism, and You, Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. (Young Adult version of Stamped From the Beginning) Stamped Educator Guide
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? Martin Luther King, Jr.
Women, Race, & Class, Angela Y. Davis
March, John Lewis
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Ain't I a Woman, bell hooks
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistence and the Origins of the United States of America, Gerald Horne
Slavery By Another Name: The Re-enslavement of of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II, Douglas A. Blackmon
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, Khalil Gibran Muhammad
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Wellesley Public Schools
Bryan Stevenson: Equal justice Initiative
Ibram X. Kendi and The BU Center for Antiracist Research
Talking About Race: National Museum of African American History & Culture
Americanah, Chimimanda Ngozi 
Adichie
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
American Street, Ibi Zoboi
The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
An American Marriage, Tayari Jones
Red at the Bone, Jacqueline Woodson
Kindred, Octavia E. Butler
Go Tell It On the Mountain, James Baldwin
Monday's Not Coming, Tiffany D. Jackson
Here are some Black YA authors you should check out:
