Anti-Racism Books

We hope your family finds these books useful in talking about racism and the way it affects our world.

Picture Books

Antiracist Baby
Intersection-Allies
The Undefeated
Woke Baby
Hands Up!
We March
Skin Again
The Other Side
Mae Among the Stars
Jackie's Bat
That is My Dream!
Princess Hair
A is For Activist
Racism and Intolerance
The Breaking News
Fry Bread
I Am Enough
All Are Welcome
The Day You Begin
When I Was Eight
When We Were Alone
When Grandmama Sings
How to be Tolerant
All Kinds of Friends
Amy Wu and the Patchwork Dragon
Paper Son: Lee's Journey to America
I'm New Here
A Normal Pig
Say Hello!
Sulwe
Someone New
Danbi Leads the School Parade
Where Are You From?
A World Together
Yo Soy Muslim
Your Name is a Song
Black is a Rainbow Color
Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match = Marisol McDonald No Combina
All Because You Matter
Be Who You Are
A Girl Like Me
M is for Melanin
God's Dream
Gondra's Treasure
Magnificent Homespun Brown
Happy In Our Skin
I Am Brown
Lovely

Juvenile Books

Brown Girl Dreaming
Yard War
Black Brother, Black Brother
A Good Kind of Trouble
Midnight Without a Moon
Boy Bites Bug
Not My Idea : a Book About Whiteness
This Book is Anti-racist
Ghost Boys
Indian No More
Betty Before X
Blended
Clean Getaway
What Lane?
New Kid
Let It Shine : Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
Separate is Never Equal
My Family Divided
Little Leaders : Bold Women in Black History
Schomburg : the Man Who Built a Library
Ruth and the Green Book
Gordon Parks
Coretta Scott
Frederick Douglass: the Lion Who Wrote History
Things Too Huge to Fix By Saying Sorry
Glory Be
Ruby Lee & Me
Sylvia & Aki
Night On Fire
Stella by Starlight
Nevertheless, we persisted
Pie in the Sky
The Year of the Dog
Prairie Lotus
Front Desk
Making Friends with Billy Wong
The Dragon's Child: a story of Angel Island
Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain
The Comeback
A Song Below Water
American Born Chinese
Cilla-Lee Jenkins: Future Author Extraordinaire
Chasing Secrets
Not Your All-American Girl
The Traitor: Golden Mountain Chronicles, 1885
Stand Up, Yumi Chung!
Pippa Park Raises Her Game
The Talk: Conversations About Race, Love, and Truth
The Garden of My Imaan
The Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality
Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship
Amina's Voice
Awesome Asian Americans: 20 Stars Who Made America Amazing
Uprooted: the Japanese American Experience During World War II
Mindy Kim and the Yummy Seaweed Business
The Other Half of Happy
Step Up to the Plate, Maria Singh!
American as Paneer Pie
Just a Drop of Water

Teen Books

Stamped
Dear Martin
The Hate U Give
I Am Alfonso Jones
Coping With Racial Inequality
Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong
Tyler Johnson Was Here
Anger is a Gift
All American Boys
The Skin I'm In
Piecing Me Together
On the Come Up
After Tupac & D Foster
One Person, No Vote : How Not All Voters are Treated Equally
Black Enough : Stories of Being Young & Black in America
Pet
A Young People's History of the United States
Stolen Justice : the Struggle for African American Voting Rights
X
Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything
Barely Missing Everything
Nothing But The Truth (And a Few White Lies)
Genesis Begins Again
Apple In the Middle
Black, White, Other
Frankly In Love
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: the Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
Picture Us In The Light
Under a Painted Sky
500 Words or Less
The Downstairs Girl
Outrun the Moon
They Called Us Enemy
Displacement
Take What You Can Carry
Almost American Girl
Patron Saints of Nothing
A Very Large Expanse of Sea
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