2021 Staff Picks for Educators & Activists

By The Institute for Anti-Racist Education
By The Institute for Anti-Racist Education

2021 Staff Picks for Educators & Activists

Our team is sharing some of our favorite books that we have read (or re-read) this year! We hope that you will find them as compelling and inspiring as we have.

Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

Cleo Wade

$18.99
$17.66
All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

Morgan Harper Nichols

$18.99
$17.66
Here the Whole Time

Here the Whole Time

Vitor Martins

$18.99
$17.66
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

W. E. B. Du Bois

$26.00
Bestiary

Bestiary

K-Ming Chang

$17.00
$15.81
Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning: Building Expressways to Success

Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning: Building...

Andratesha Fritzgerald

$32.00
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Carmen Maria Machado

$17.00
$15.81
Song of Solomon

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

$17.00
$15.81
The Wretched of the Earth

The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon

$18.00
$16.74
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

$26.00
$24.18
Pet

Pet

Akwaeke Emezi

$11.99
$11.15
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, with a New Preface

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of...

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

$21.00
$19.53
From Burning to Blueprint: Rebuilding Black Wall Street After a Century of Silence

From Burning to Blueprint: Rebuilding Black Wall Street After...

II Kevin Matthews

$16.99
$15.80
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to...

Resmaa Menakem

$17.95
$16.69
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others

Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self...

Connie Burk and Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky

$22.95
$21.34
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Audre Lorde

$17.99
$16.73
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students

The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing...

Anthony Abraham Jack

$27.95
$25.99
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

Sonya Renee Taylor

$18.95
$17.62
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements

Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for...

Charlene Carruthers

$15.95
$14.83
All about Love: New Visions

All about Love: New Visions

Bell Hooks

$16.99
$15.80
Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition

Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition

Paulo Freire

$30.99
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of...

Derecka Purnell

$28.00
$26.04
Start Here, Start Now: A Guide to Antibias and Antiracist Work in Your School Community

Start Here, Start Now: A Guide to Antibias and Antiracist...

Liz Kleinrock

$38.47
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and...

Bettina Love

$16.95
$15.76
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Adrienne Maree Brown

$19.00
$14.89