When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would spread as widely as it did. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it. Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and nearly 100,000 people downloaded the Me and White Supremacy Workbook. Updated and expanded from the original workbook, Me and White Supremacy, takes the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources. Conversations about racism can be difficult and uncomfortable, but they’re absolutely essential in the dismantling of systems of oppression. Books are a great place to start in informing ourselves on these systems: their history in this country, how many of us benefit from and uphold them, and action plans for combatting their hold. That’s why we asked for your favorite nonfiction books about racism and white supremacy, and you delivered! We’ve rounded up 30 of your favorites: let’s all read up, then open up the conversation and affect meaningful change. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo Black Skin, White Mask by Frantz Fanon On Intersectionality by Kimberle Crenshaw Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnel Moore The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Five Smooth Stones by Ann Fairburn How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Angry White People by Hsiao-Hung Pai I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust by Mary Stanton The Color of Water by James McBride Black is the Body by Emily Bernard White Fragility by Robin J. DiAngelo Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation by Beth E. Richie The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson Black Boy by Richard Wright The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X A Choice of Weapons by Gordon Parks Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan M. Metzl White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
