Read Ten on Race: Adult Nonfiction* Available at the Pearisburg Public Library 1. The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander 2. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 3. Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson 4. The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson 5. A People’s History of the - Howard Zinn

On Order at the Pearisburg Public Library 6. The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin 7. Blindspot - Mahzarin R. Banaji 8. A Black Women’s History of the United States - Daina Ramey Berry + Kali Nicole Gross 9. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 10. Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Angela Davis 11. Stamped From the Beginning - Ibram X. Kendi 12. Where Do We Go From Here? - Martin Luther King, Jr. 13. Citizen - Claudia Rankine 14. The Color of - Richard Rothstein 15. The Fire This Time - Jesmyn Ward

More Reading 16. I’m Still Here - Austin Channing Brown 17. White Fragility - Robin Diangelo 18. Tears We Cannot Stop - 19. Caught - Marie Gottschalk 20. Teaching to Transgress - bell hooks 21. Why I’m No Longer Talking to People About Race - Reni Eddo-Iodge 22. Good Talk - Mira Jacob 23. This Book is Anti-Racist - Tiffany Jewell 24. Hood Feminism - Mikki Kendall 25. How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi 26. Mindful of Race - Ruth King 27. So You Want to Talk about Race - Ijeoma Oluo 28. An African American and Latinx History of the United States - Paul Ortiz 29. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 30. Breathe: A Letter to my Sons - Imani Perry ​ 31. Me and White Supremacy - Layla F. Saad 32. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? - Beverly Daniel Tatum 33. America’s Original Sin - Jim Wallis 34. Black Enough - Ibi Zoboi

Other Resources 35. The 1619 Project https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html

*This list is not conclusive or comprehensive - feel free to recommend other titles or discover new writing on your own!