Understanding and Uprooting Racism

By Walden Pond Books

By Walden Pond Books

Understanding and Uprooting Racism

A list of important books from a variety of perspectives on racism in America. 

We can't dismantle racism just by reading about it - but it's a start.  

Though this list is predominantly nonfiction, we have included five works of fiction in the bottom row that we consider just as impactful.

How to Argue with a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say...

Adam Rutherford

$21.95
$20.19

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Cathy Park Hong

$18.00
$16.56

One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race

Yaba Blay

$30.00
$27.60

Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir

Rebecca Carroll

$26.00
$23.92

The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space...

Lawrence T. Brown

$29.95
$27.55

Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of...

David Zucchino

$18.00
$16.56

Just Us: An American Conversation

Claudia Rankine

$30.00
$27.60

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can...

Heather McGhee

$28.00
$25.76

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man

Emmanuel Acho

$27.99
$25.75

The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto

Charles M. Blow

$26.99
$24.83

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

Ijeoma Oluo

$28.00
$25.76

Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from...

Rachel Ricketts

$27.00
$24.84

Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America

Michael Eric Dyson

$25.99
$23.91

Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic...

Shaun King

$26.00
$23.92

We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility

Marc Lamont Hill

$12.95
$11.91

Dispatches from the Race War

Tim Wise

$17.95
$16.51

White Fright: The Sexual Panic at the Heart of America's...

Jane Dailey

$30.00
$27.60

Do Right by Me: Learning to Raise Black Children in White Spaces

Valerie I Harrison and Kathryn Peach D'Angelo

$20.00
$18.40

The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

Alicia Garza

$27.00
$24.84

Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and...

Derald Wing Sue

$29.95
$27.55

We're Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy

James Dale and Elijah Cummings

$28.99
$26.67

How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

$27.00
$24.84

So You Want to Talk about Race

Ijeoma Oluo

$16.99
$15.63

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist...

Ibram X. Kendi

$19.99
$18.39

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We...

Jennifer L. Eberhardt

$18.00
$16.56

Killing Rage: Ending Racism

Bell Hooks

$18.00
$16.56

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring...

Joy a. Degruy

$19.95

From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

$17.95
$16.51

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise...

Henry Louis Gates

$20.00
$18.40

Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and...

$18.00
$16.56

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

$13.95
$12.83

N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law

Jody David Armour

$18.00
$16.56

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk...

Robin Diangelo

$16.00
$14.72

Check Your Privilege: Live into the Work

$12.99

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of...

Michelle Alexander

$18.99
$17.47

Men We Reaped: A Memoir

Jesmyn Ward

$17.00
$15.64

They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of the Struggle for Black...

Wesley Lowery

$17.99
$16.55

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the...

Angela Y Davis

$15.95
$14.67

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race

Reni Eddo-Lodge

$18.00
$16.56

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

$26.00
$23.92

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business...

Dorothy Roberts

$19.95
$18.35

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo

Zora Neale Hurston

$16.99
$15.63

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons...

Eddie S. Glaude

$27.00
$24.84

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Audre Lorde

$16.98
$15.62

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

James Forman

$17.00
$15.64

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

Michael Eric Dyson

$24.99
$22.99

Towards the "Other America": Anti-Racist Resources for White...

Chris Crass

$16.99
$15.63

A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses...

Jeanne Theoharis

$18.00
$16.56

Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice

Paul Kivel

$24.99
$22.99

What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and...

Michael Eric Dyson

$24.99
$22.99

Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race

Debby Irving

$19.98
$18.38

How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a...

Jim Grimsley

$16.95

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the...

Beverly Daniel Tatum

$18.98
$17.46

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

Asha Bandele and Patrisse Cullors

$16.98
$15.62

White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son...

Tim Wise

$16.95
$15.59

The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr.,...

Nicholas Buccola

$29.95
$27.55

America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the...

Jim Wallis

$17.99
$16.55

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is...

Jonathan M Metzl

$17.99
$16.55

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and...

Layla Saad

$25.99
$23.91

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

Carol Anderson

$17.00
$15.64

We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide

Tonya Bolden and Carol Anderson

$10.99
$10.11

We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of...

Jabari Asim

$17.00
$15.64

Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

Dave Zirin and Michael Bennett

$17.95
$16.51

Things That Make White People Uncomfortable (Adapted for...

Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin

$18.99
$17.47

Afropessimism

Frank B. Wilderson

$29.95
$27.55

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Barack Obama

$18.99
$17.47

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

Resmaa Menakem

$17.95
$16.51

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

Bettina Love

$16.00
$14.72

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government...

Richard Rothstein

$17.95
$16.51

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

$26.00
$23.92

Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City

Wes Moore and Erica L. Green

$28.00
$25.76

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race

Jesmyn Ward

$16.00
$14.72

Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their...

Matthew Van Meter

$28.00
$25.76

How to Be Less Stupid about Race: On Racism, White Supremacy,...

Crystal Marie Fleming

$14.95
$13.75

Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism

Drew G. I. Hart

$16.99
$15.63

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Austin Channing Brown

$25.00
$23.00

Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair...

Stacey Abrams

$27.99
$25.75

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of...

Edward E Baptist

$21.99
$20.23

Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their...

Erica Armstrong Dunbar

$16.99
$15.63

An African American and Latinx History of the United States

Paul Ortiz

$16.00
$14.72

The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm...

Peniel E. Joseph

$30.00
$27.60

Down Along with That Devil's Bones: A Reckoning with...

Connor Towne O'Neill

$26.95
$24.79

The Confessions of Frannie Langton

Sara Collins

$16.99
$15.63

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

$16.00
$14.72

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward

$17.00
$15.64

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

$16.95
$15.59

A Kind of Freedom

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

$16.95
$15.59