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Madison - Advancing Racial Equity Collection: Print Books

Collection purchased using the Advancing Racial Equity Collection Development Grant provided the Indiana Humanities funded by the Lilly Endowment.

Print Titles

Listed in Alphabetical Order by Title

An Abolitionist's Handbook : 12 steps to changing yourself and the world by Patrisse Cullors
Published 2021
All That She Carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake by Tiya Miles
Published 2021
America on Fire : the untold history of police violence and Black rebellion since the 1960s by Elizabth Hinton
Published 2021
An American Marriage : a novel by Tayari Jones
Published 2018
American Spy : a novel by Lauren Wilkinson
Published 2018
And still I rise : Black America since MLK by Henry Gates
Published 2015
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Published 2018
Begin Again : James Baldwin's America and its urgent lessons for our own by Eddie Glaude
Published 2020
Beloved: a novel by Toni Morrison
Published 2006
Between the world and me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Published 2015
The Big Smoke by Adrian Matejka
Published 2013
The Black Church : this is our story, this is our song by Henry Gates
Published 2021
Black Deutschland by Darryl Pinckney
Published 2016
Blindspot : hidden biases of good people by Mahzarin Banji
Published 2016
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
Published 2019
Bringing Up Race : how to raise a kind child in a prejudiced world by Uju Asika
Published 2021
Caste : the origins of our discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Published 2020
Catch a Star : shining through adversity to become a champion by Tamika Catchings
Published 2016
The Color Purple : a novel by Alice Walker
Published 1982
Colorization : one hundred years of Black films in a white world by Will Haygood
Published 2021
Conjure Women : a novel by Afia Atakora
Published 2020
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Published 2020
Dear Black Girl : letters from your sisters on stepping into your power by Tamara Winfrey-Harris
Published 2021
Death of Innocence : the story of the hate crime that changed America by Mamie Till-Mobley
Published 2005
Decolonizing Wealth : indigenous wisdom to heal divides and restore balance by Edgar Villanueva
Published 2021
Eloquent Rage : a black feminist discovers her superpower by Brittney Cooper
Published 2018
The Essential Etheridge Knight by Etheridge Knight
Published 1986
Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city by Matthew Desmond
Published 2016
Farming While Black : Soul Fire Farm's practical guide to liberation on the land by Leah Penniman
Published 2018
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Published 2015
Five Days : the fiery reckoning of an American city by Wes Moore
Published 2020
Footnotes : the black artists who rewrote the rules of the great white way by Caseen Gaines
Published 2021
Four Hundred Souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram Kendi
Published 2021
Franchise : the golden arches in black America by Marcia Chatelain
Published 2020
Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom by David Blight
Published 2018
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Published 2018
Girl, Woman, Other: a novel by Bernardine Evaristo
Published 2019
Ghosts in the Schoolyard : racism and school closings on Chicago's South side by Eve Ewing
Published 2018
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Published 2020
Hell of a Book : or the altogether factual, Wholly Bona Fide story of a big dreams, hard luck, American-Made Mad Kid by Jason Mott
Published 2021
Hidden Figures : the American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race by Margot Shetterly
Published 2016
Homegoing : a novel by Yaa Gyasi
Published 2016
Hood Feminism : notes from the women that a movement forgot by Mikki Kendall
Published 2020
How the Word Is Passed : a reckoning with the history of slavery across America by Clint Smith
Published 2021
How We Fight for Our Lives : a memoir by Saed Jones
Published 2019
I Came ss a Shadow : an autobiography by John Thompson
Published 2020
Ida B. the Queen : the extraordinary life and legacy of Ida B. Wells by Michelle Duster
Published 2021
I'm Still Here : Black dignity in a world made for whiteness by Austin Brown
Published 2018
In Bibi's Kitchen : the recipes & stories of grandmothers from the eight African countries that touch the Indian Ocean by Hawa Hassan
Published 2020
Indianapolis Jazz : the masters, legends and legacy of Indiana Avenue by David Williams
Published 2014
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Published 1994
Just Mercy : a story of justice and redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Published 2014
Just Us : an American conversation by Claudia Rankine
Published 2020
The Kindest Lie : a novel by Nancy Johnson
Published 2021
A Little Devil in America : notes in praise of black performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
Published 2021
The Lost Etheridge : uncollected poems of Etheridge Knight
Published 2022
Lovecraft Country : a novel by Matt Ruff
Published 2016
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois : a novel by Honoree Jeffers
Published 2021
Native Son by Richard Wright
Published 1998
The Nickel Boys: a novel by Colson Whitehead
Published 2019
The Other Black Girl : a novel by Zakiya Harris
Published 2021
Our Time Is Now : power, purpose, and the fight for a fair America by Stacy Abrams
Published 2020
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Published 2020
The Prophets : a novel by Robert Jones
Published 2021
Queenie : a novel by Candice Carty-Williams
Published 2019
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
Published 2020
Salvage the Bones : a novel by Jesmyn Ward
Published 2021
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Published 2015
Sing, Unburied, Sing : a novel by Jasmyn Ward
Published 2017
Somebody Else Sold the World by Adrian Matejka
Published 2021
Such a Fun Age; a novel by Kiley Reid
Published 2019
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
Published 2021
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Published 2006
They Can't Kill Us All : Ferguson, Baltimore, and a new era in America's racial justice movement by Wesley Lowery
Published 2016
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Published 1992
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Published 2020
The Underground Railroad : a novel by Colson Whitehead
Published 2016
The Vanishing Half: a novel by Brit Bennett
Published 2020
Voice of Freedom : Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
Published 2018
The Water Dancer : a novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Published 2019
When stars rain down : a novel by Angela Jackson-Brown
Published 2021
The World Doesn't Require You : stories by Rion Scott
Published 2019