From Victoria Alexander: “I’ve been getting a lot of questions from my non-Black friends about how to be a better ally to Black people. I suggest unlearning and relearning through literature as just one good jumping off point, and have broken up my anti-racist reading list into sections.” 📚

EDIT: I’m so glad many of you are finding use in this list. It is not my list. All credit and thanks should go to Victoria Alexander. AMPLIFY MELANATED VOICES.

Please follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/victoriaalx…/status/1266829408268095493…

Her Instagram account has incredible resources for non-Black allies: @victoriaalxndr

EDIT 2: Sharing the titles and authors for readers with low vision, by request.

Anti-Racist Starter Kit:
Stamped from the Beginning – Ibram X Kendi
A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn (There is a “young people’s” version for elementary and middle school readers)
White Fragility – Robin Diangelo
So you want to talk about race – Ijeoma Oluo
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness – Austin Channing Brown
Me and White Supremcy – Layla F Saad
Stamped – Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi

Anti-Racist Intermediate Kit:
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America – Anders Walker
The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
The Condemnation of Blackness – Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Dying of Whiteness – Jonathan Metzl
A Different Mirror – Ronald Takaki
How to be an AntiRacist – Ibram X Kendi
How the South Wont the Civil War – Heather Cox Richardson

Anti-Racist Topic Specifics:
Evicted – Matthew Desmond
Nobody – Marc Lamont Hill
Lies My Teacher Told Me – James W Loewen
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria – Berver Doniel Tatum, PhD
The Color of Law – Richard Rothstein
Blackballed – Darryl Pinkney
Lies My Teacher Told Me – James W. Loewen

Anti-Racist Lit; Bios, Non-fiction, novels, personal narratives:
The Warmth of Other Sons – Isabel Wilkerson
The Fire Next time – James Baldwin
Malcolm X – Alex Haley
Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
Killing Rage Ending Racism – Bell Hooks
Becoming – Michelle Obama
An American By Marriage – Tayari Jones
A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota –
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother – James McBride
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption – Bryan Stevenson
The Myth Of Race – Robert Sussman

Anti-Racist Lit – Black Feminism:
How we Get Free – Keeanga-Yamhtta Taylor
Black Feminits Thought – Patricia Hill Collins
Ain’t I a Woman Black Women and Feminism – Bell Hooks
Bad Feminist – Roxane Gay
Eloquent Rage – Brittney Cooper
In Search of Our Mothers Gardens – Alice Walker
Sister Outsider – Audre Lorde
Women Race & Class – Angela Y Davis
Assata: An Autobiography – Assata Shakur
To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe – Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande

Anti Racist List Black LGBTQ+:
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
Zami – Audre Lorde
Real Life – Brandon Taylor
Unapologetic A black, queer, and feminist Mandate for Radical Movements – Charlene A Carruthers
No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies – E. Patrick Johnson
Since I Laid My Burden Down – Brontez Purnell
The Other Side of Paradise – Staceyann Chin
No Ashes in the Fire – Darnell L. Moore
The Summer We Got Free – Mia McKenzie
Black Like Me – John Howard Griffin
Rising Out of Hatred – Eli Saslow
Black On Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identiy – C. Riley Snorton