Understanding and Uprooting Racism

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.

Also browse: Anti-Racism Books for Children, Parents, and Teachers

The Antiracist Business Book: An Equity Centered Approach to...

Trudi Lebron

$27.99

$25.75

All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope--And Hard Pills...

Andre Henry

$26.00

$23.92

We Can't Talk about That at Work!: How to Talk about Race,...

Mary-Frances Winters

$21.95

$20.19

What's Up with White Women?: Unpacking Sexism and White...

Tilman Smith and Ilsa Govan

$19.99

$18.39

Social Justice Parenting: How to Raise Compassionate,...

Traci Baxley

$27.99

$25.75

The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto

Charles M. Blow

$17.99

$16.55

Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture

Randall Kennedy

$30.00

$27.60

What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

Emma Dabiri

$13.99

$12.87

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

Stacey Abrams

$18.00

$16.56

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

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of...

Clint Smith

$29.00

$26.68

The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America

Carol Anderson

$28.00

$25.76

You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and...

$27.00

$24.84

Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Activism and Action

Sophie Williams

$15.99

$14.71

We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and...

Mariame Kaba

$16.95

$15.59

Soul on Ice

Eldridge Cleaver

$17.00

$15.64

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

Black Like Me

John Howard Griffin

$9.99

$9.19

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

Lawrence T Brown

$29.95

$27.55

Wilmington's Lie (Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize): The...

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

Also be sure to check out: Anti-Racism Books for Children, Parents, and Teachers