To encourage learning and research on systemic racism, racial justice, and anti-racism, Princeton University Library staff highlights the following notable books available in the library. inclusion on this list does not support the author’s point of view.
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becoming michelle obama ’85print | electronic book | audiobook
between me and the worldta-nehisi coatesprint | electronic book | audiobook
Constructing a Black Criminology, Volume 24: Race, Theory, and Crimejames d. never, shaun l. Gabbidon and Cecilia Chouhyprint
building the carceral state: race and the politics of mass incarcerationheather schoenfeldprint
a different mirror: a story of multicultural americaronald takakiprint
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpowerbrittney cooperprint | electronic book
Fighting the Power: African Americans and New York City’s Long History of Police Brutalityclarence taylorprint | electronic book
fire next timejames baldwinprint
fire this time: a new generation speaks of racejesmyn wardprint
ghettoside: a true story of murder in the united statesjill leovyprint | electronic book
hands up, don’t shoot: why the ferguson and baltimore protests matter, and how they changed americajennifer e. cobbine print
how to be anti-racistibram x. kendiebook
invisible no more: police violence against black women and women of colorandrea j. ritchie print | electronic book
I’m still here: black dignity in a world made for whitenessaustin channing brownprint | electronic book
lock up our own: crime and punishment in black americajames formaprint | electronic book
me and white supremacy: fighting racism, changing the world and becoming a good ancestorlayla f. saadebook | audiobook
the new jim crow: mass incarceration in the age of color blindnessmichelle alexanderprint | electronic book
the story of a town in the united states howard zinnprint | audiobook
Surveillance of the Planet: Why the Police Crisis Led to Importance of Black Livesjordan t. camp and christina heathertonprint
race and crimeshaun l. gabbidon and helen taylor greeneprint
so you want to talk about raceijeoma oluoprint | electronic book | audiobook
Marked from the start: the definitive history of racist ideas in Americaibram x. kendi print | electronic book
A Theory of African-American Crime: Race, Racism, and Crimejames d. unnever and shaun l. gabbidon print | electronic book
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Colorcherrie moragaprint
silbar vivaldi: how stereotypes affect us and what we can do about itclaude m. steel footprint
white fragility: why it is so difficult for whites to talk about racismrobin diangeloprint | electronic book | audiobook
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Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in AmericaAlicia Garza (Foreword by), Maya Schenwar (Editor), Joe Macare (Editor), Alana Yu-Lan price (publisher)print
why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria: and other conversations about race beverly daniel tatum, phdprint | electronic book
why I don’t talk to white people about race anymorereni eddo-lodgeprint | electronic book
books written by princeton professors, including suggestions from the black studies department
deartoni morrisonprint | electronic book | audiobook
the bluest eyetoni morrisonprint | audiobook
breathe: a letter to my childrenimani perryprint | electronic book
from #blacklivesmatter to black liberationkeeanga-yamahtta taylorprint | electronic book
How We Freed Ourselves: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collectivekeeanga-yamahtta taylorprint | electronic book
Most beautiful and most terrible: the embrace and transcendence of racial inequality in the United Statesimani perryprint | electronic book
race after technology: abolitionist tools for new jim coderuha benjaminprint
Race for Profits: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownershipkeeanga-yamahtta taylorprint | electronic book
democracy in black: how race still enslaves the American souleddie s. Glaude Jr. print | electronic book
The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built America’s Prisonnaomi murakawaprint | electronic book
books suggested by lauren johnson ’21 and ashley hodges ’21
Ain’t I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminismbell hooksprint
americanahchimamanda ngozi adichieprint | electronic book
Are prisons obsolete? angela and. davis print
assata: an autobiographyassata shakurprint
Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policingstuart schraderebook
black feminist thought: knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowermentpatricia hill collinsprint
black skin, white masksfrantz fanonprint
The Limits of Blackness: AIDS and the Collapse of Black Politicscathy j. cohen’s footprint
The Doom of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban Americakhalil gibran muhammadprint | electronic book
Demonic Grounds: Black Women and Cartographies of Strugglekatherine mckittrickprint
have coffee somewhere elsezz packerprint
the dutchman and the slaveleroi jonesprint
for girls of color who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enough: a choreopoemntozake shangeprint
freedom is a constant struggle: ferguson, palestine and the foundations of a movementangela y. davis print
homecomingyaa gyasiprint | electronic book | audiobook
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How to Read African-American Literature: Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretationaida levy-hussenprint | electronic book
invisible manralph ellison print
in search of the gardens of our mothers: womanist prosealice walkerprint
wisdom of jim crow: memory and identity in black america since 1940jonathan s. hollow footprint | electronic book
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemptionbryan stevensonprint | electronic book | audiobook
killing the black body: race, reproduction and the meaning of freedomdorothy robertsprint
malcolm x speaks: selected speeches and statementsgeorge breitman (editor)print | electronic book
the nickel boyscolson whiteheadprint | electronic book | audiobook
This Nonviolence Will Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possiblecharles e. Cobb Jr. print | electronic book
parable of the talentsoctavia e. butler | electronic book
racial dominance, racial progress: the sociology of race in the united states matthew desmondprint
revolutionary suicidehuey p. newton’s print
The Revolution Is Here: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oaklandrobyn c. spencer footprint
save the bonesjesmyn wardprint | electronic book
Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedomkeisha n. black footprint | electronic book
Silencing the past: the power and production of historymichel-rolph trouillotprint | electronic book
outsider sister: essays and speechesaudre lordeprint
slavery and social death: a comparative studyorlando pattersonprint | electronic book
the streetann petryprint
the internal struggle: prisons, political prisoners and mass movements in the united statesdan bergerprint
her eyes looked at godzora neale hurstonprint | electronic book
Rebellious Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Stories of Social Upheavalsaidiya hartmanprint
why don’t american cities burn?michael b. katz print | electronic book
women, race & classangela y. davis print
the wretched of the earthfrantz fanonprint
Additional lists of resources and multimedia have been developed by other university departments, as well as Princeton students, staff, and faculty:
media resources to combat racism organized by the office of human resourcesanti-racist resources and research in digital humanities, maintained by the center for digital humanities call to action: princeton black alumni association resources
If you are a Princeton student, faculty, or staff member and would like to include your list on this page or would like to suggest a book for purchase, please contact Library Communications at pulcomm@princeton.edu.
media contact: barbara valenza, director of library communications
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