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Nonfiction
40 Ways to Raise a Nonracist Child by Barbara Mathias & Mary Ann French
Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story by Timothy B. Tyson
Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics & the Retreat from Racial Equity by Tim Wise
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki
Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America by Michael O. Emerson & Christian Smith
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium by Joseph L. Graves, Jr.
Free to Be Bound: Church Beyond the Color Line by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Half + Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural by Claudine C. O’Hearn
Just Don’t Marry One: Interracial Dating, Marriage, and Parenting by George A. Yancey and Sherelyn Whittum Yancey
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America by Joseph L. Graves, Jr.
Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism & the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections from an Angry White Male by Tim Wise
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans by Ronald Takaki
Understanding & Dismantling Racism: The 21st Century Challenge to White America by Joseph Barndt
White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism edited by Paula S. Rothenberg
“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black & White by Frank H. Wu
Fiction
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie
Zora & Nicky: A Novel in Black & White by Claudia Mair Burney

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