This year, we’ve dedicated our annual summer reading list to rise up the voices that need to be heard. We consulted some members of our community, asking for their recommendations. Most of the books on the list below are written by Black people or Indigenous peoples to support the current conversations happening in the United States and Canada at this moment in time. By curating this list, we hope to educate ourselves, reflect on ourselves, and/or work with our communities to start talking, take action, and work to create anti-racism allyship.
We are not suggesting this is an exhaustive list and we welcome your additions. We hope to continue the conversation and learn from you. If you’d like to see a publication added, please email us!
Understanding
- 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples A Reality – Bob Joseph
- Anti-racism Resources for White People
- Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
- Feel Free – Zadie Smith
- Heart Berries – Terese Marie Mailhot
- Seven Fallen Feathers – Tanya Talaga
- The Inconvenient Indian – Thomas King
- The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
- The Skin We’re In – Desmond Cole
- they said this would be fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up – Eternity Martis
- This Will Be My Undoing – Morgan Jenkins
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People to Talk About Racism – Robin Diangelo
Call to Action
- How to be an Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi
- How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community – Mia Birdsong
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness – Austin Channing Brown
- Justice in June – Autumn Gupta with Bryanna Wallace
- Me and White Supremacy – Layla F. Saad
- So you want to talk about race – Ijeoma Oluo
- We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom – Bettina Love
- When They Call You a Terrorist – A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Fiction
- Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo
- Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
- Monkey Beach – Eden Robinson
- On the Come Up – Angie Thomas
- Sing, Unburied, Sing – Jesmyn Ward
- The Hate You Give – Angie Thomas
As mentioned, if there is a publication that you know of that should be added, please email us!
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