R E D H O T R E A D E R S

BOOK LIST

Minnesota Authors: Kids books A Map Into the World by Kao Kalia Yang and Seo Kim (Picture book. 5-9) My FootPrints by Bao Phi (Picture book. 5-9)

Minnesota Authors: Young Adult Dream Country by Shannon Gibney The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus

Minnesota Authors: Adult books A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota by Sun Yung Shin, editor This is What America Looks Like by Ilhan Omar Mitochondrial Night by Ed Bok Lee (Poetry) The Night Watchman by We Have the Right to Exist: A Translation of Aboriginal Indigenous Thought: The First Book Ever Published from an Ahnishinahbaeo'jibway Perspective by Wub-E- Ke-Niew What Does Justice Look Like? The Struggle for Liberation in Dakota Homeland by Waziyatawin, Ph.D.

Anti-Racists Lit. Starter Kit Stamped From the Beginning – The definitive history of racist ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi A People’s History of the by Howard Zinn White Fragility – Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin Diangelo So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo R E D H O T R E A D E R S

BOOK LIST (CONT. 1)

Anti-Racist Lit. Intermediate Kit The Burning House – Jim Crow and the making of modern America by Anders Walker The New Jim Crow – Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness by Michelle Alexander The Condemnation of Blackness – Race, crime and the making of modern urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad Dying of Whiteness – How the politics of racial resentment is killing America’s heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl A Different Mirror – A history of multicultural America by Ronald Takaki How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Topic Specific Poverty Housing: Evicted – Poverty and profit in the American city by Matthew Desmond Police Violence/Mass Incarceration: Nobody – Casualties of America’s war on the vulnerable from Ferguson to Flint and beyond by Marc Lamont Hill Chokehold – Policing Black Men by Paul Butler Education/Colonialism/Ahistoricism: Lies My Teacher Told Me – Everything your American history textbook got wrong by James W. Loewen Education Discrimination Bias: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD Segregation/Housing Discrimination: The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein Voter Suppression/Black Voting: Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy by Darryl Pinckney History/Journalism: Conversations in Black – On politics, power and leadership by Ed Gordon

Biographies, Non-Fiction Novels, Personal Narratives The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told by Alex Haley Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Killing Rage – Ending racism by Becoming by Michelle Obama What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young R E D H O T R E A D E R S

BOOK LIST (CONT. 2)

Black Feminism How We Get Free by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins Ain’t I a Woman by Bell Hooks Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper In Search of our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker Sister Outsider by Women Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis Assata by Assata Shakuh

Black LGBTQ+ Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin Zami by Audre Lorde Real Life by Brandon Taylor Unapologetic – A black, queer and feminist mandate for radical movements by Charlene A. Carruthers No Tea, No Shade by E. Patrick Johnson Since I Laid My Burden Down by Brontez Purnell Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin No Ashes in the Fire by Darnell L. Moore The Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie

Black Centered Fiction The Bluest Eye by The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Native Son by Richard Wright Beloved by Toni Morrison Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez R E D H O T R E A D E R S

BOOK LIST (CONT. 3)

Young Adult and Children This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara Julian Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena

Aimed at Specifically White Readers Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel Witnessing Whiteness by Shelly Tochluk Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race by Derald Wing Sue

Save the date for our Red Hot Book Club! Saturday, August 15 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in Stevens Square Park.