Racial Justice Titles Available Through the J. V. Fletcher Library
Here is a list of nonfiction titles about Racial Justice that are available through the J. V. Fletcher Library and the Merrimack Valley Library Consortium. Most of them are available as physical books, and those that are not owned by our library can be requested from other libraries. Many are available electronically, and a few of them are only available that way. The links below will take you to the entry in the catalog, Overdrive, or Hoopla, as appropriate.
Adult Nonfiction
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An African-American and Latinx History of the United States, by Paul Ortiz
In MVLC
Asian American Dreams : The Emergence of an American People, by Helen Zia
In MVLC
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X
In Overdrive as an ebook
Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
In Overdrive as ebook or as a downloadable audiobook
The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America’s Law Enforcement, by Matthew Horace
In Overdrive as a downloadable audiobook
Black Wealth, White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality, by Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro
In MVLC
Chokehold: Policing Black Men, by Paul Butler
In MVLC
In Overdrive as an ebook
Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine
In MVLC
In Overdrive as an ebook or as a downloadable audiobook
Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City, by Elijah Anderson
In MVLC
Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy, by Mary L. Dudziak
In Hoopla as an ebook
The Color of Law: The Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein
In Overdrive as an ebook
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, by Kahlil Gibran Muhammad
In Hoopla as an audiobook
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, by Eddie S. Glaude
In Overdrive as an ebook
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, by Brittney Cooper
In Overdrive as an ebook or as a downloadable audiobook
In Hoopla as an audiobook
The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions, by Vilna Bashi Treitler
In Hoopla as an ebook
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century by Dorothy Roberts
In MVLC
In Overdrive as a downloadable audiobook
In Hoopla as an ebook or audiobook
The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
In MVLC and at J. V. Fletcher Library, in The Collected Essays of James Baldwin;
In Overdrive as an ebook
Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir, by Charles M. Blow
In MVLC
In Overdrive as an ebook
In Hoopla as an ebook
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race, ed. by Jesmyn Ward
In Overdrive as a downloadable audiobook
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, by Yeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
In MVLC
In Hoopla as an ebook or an audiobook
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America, by Elizabeth Kai Hinton
In MVLC
In Hoopla as an audiobook
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, by Ari Berman
In Hoopla as an audiobook
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, Edward E. Baptist
In Overdrive as a downloadable audiobook
In Hoopla as an audiobook
Heavy: An American Memoir, by Kiese Laymon
In Overdrive as an ebook or as a downloadable audiobook
The Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry, by Maryann Erigha
In MVLC
How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
In Overdrive as an ebook or as a downloadable audiobook
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide, by Crystal Fleming
In Overdrive as an ebook
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
In Overdrive as an ebook or as a downloadable audiobook & here
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, by Austin Channing Brown
In Overdrive as an ebook or a downloadable audiobook
An Indigenous People’s History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
In Overdrive as an ebook or as a downloadable audiobook
In Hoopla as an audiobook
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson
In Overdrive as an ebook or as a downloadable audiobook
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Back America, by James Forman
In Overdrive as an ebook
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor, by Layla F. Saad
In Overdrive as an ebook or as a downloadable audiobook
In Hoopla as an ebook or as an audiobook
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, by Harriet Washington
In Hoopla as an audiobook
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, by Cathy Park Hong
In Overdrive as an ebook and a downloadable audiobook
The Mis-education of the Negro, by Carter Woodson
In Hoopla as an ebook
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Use and Misuse of Civil Rights History, by Jeanne Theoharis
My Midnight Years: Surviving Jon Burge’s Police Torture Ring and Death Row, by Ronald Kitchen
In Hoopla as an ebook and an audiobook
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass
In Overdrive as an ebook or as a downloadable audiobook
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
In Overdrive as an ebook or as a downloadable audiobook
In Hoopla as an ebook or as an audiobook
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America, by Darnelle L. Moore
In MVLC
On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope, by DeRay Mckesson
In Overdrive as a downloadable audiobook
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy, by Carol Anderson
In Overdrive as an ebook
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit, by Thomas J. Sugrue
In Hoopla as an ebook or an audiobook
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, From Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation, by Daina Ramey Berry
In MVLC
In Hoopla as an audiobook
The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism & Engage in Collective Healing, by Anneliese A. Singh
In MVLC
In Hoopla as an ebook or an audiobook
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America, by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
At J. V. Fletcher Library
In Overdrive as a downloadable audiobook
In Hoopla as an audiobook
Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations, by Joe Feagin
In MVLC
Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, by Eric Foner
In MVLC
In Hoopla as an ebook
Roots, by Alex Haley
In Overdrive as a downloadable audiobook
In Hoopla as an audiobook
Say I’m Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love, by E. Dolores Johnson
In MVLC
In Overdrive as an ebook or as a downloadable audiobook
In Hoopla as an ebook or as an audiobook
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, by Audre Lorde
In MVLC
In Overdrive as an ebook or as a downloadable audiobook
In Hoopla as an audiobook
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II, by Douglas A. Blackmon
In MVLC
So You Want to Talk about Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
In MVLC
In Overdrive as an ebook or as a downloadable audiobook
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement: My Story of Transformation and Hope, by Albert Woodfox
In MVLC
In Hoopla as an ebook
The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois
In Overdrive as an ebook
In Hoopla as an ebook or as an audiobook
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibram X. Kendi
In Overdrive as an ebook or as a downloadable audiobook
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, by Michael Eric Dyson
In Overdrive as an ebook or as a downloadable audiobook
“They Can’t Kill Us All:” Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement, by Wesley Lowery
In Overdrive as a downloadable audiobook
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable, by Michael Bennett
In MVLC
In Overdrive as a downloadable audiobook
In Hoopla as an ebook or as an audiobook
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America, by Morgan Jerkins
In Overdrive as an ebook or as a downloadable audiobook
In Hoopla as an ebook or as an audiobook
Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994, by Deborah G. White
In MVLC
The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson
In Overdrive as an ebook or as a downloadable audiobook
We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation, by Jeff Chang
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
In Overdrive as an ebook or as a downloadable audiobook
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays, by Damon Young
In Overdrive as an ebook
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America, by Paula Giddings
In MVLC
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
In Overdrive as an ebook or as a downloadable audiobook
In Hoopla as an audiobook
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, by Robin DiAngelo
In Overdrive as an ebook or as a downloadable audiobook
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, by Carol Anderson
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations About Race (20th Anniversary Edition), by Beverly Daniel Tatum
In MVLC
In Overdrive as an ebook
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, by Frank Wu
In MVLC