Library Resources for Discussion & Understanding
There are a number of resources to support knowledge-seeking as a step to dismantling systemic racism and social inequity. This list includes titles for readers of all ages, compiled by Superior Public Library staff. This is not a comprehensive list of available resources. To search the library catalog for a specific title or subject, click here.
Adult Non-Fiction
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b1091768~S25
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b1930469~S25
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b2031669~S31
How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b2048878~S25
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b1474536~S25
Just Mercy: A True Story of the Fight for Justice by Bryan Stevenson https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b1900365~S25
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b2064856~S25
The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b1996064~S25
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b2028889~S25
Stamped From the Beginning by Jason Reynolds https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b2063587~S25
Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You by Jason Reynolds https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b2063587~S25
Stolen justice: The Struggle for African-American Voting Rights by Lawrence Goldstone https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b2061861~S25
This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 lessons on how to wake up, take action, and do the work by Tiffany Jewell ; illustrated by Aurelia Durand https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b2062583~S25
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b1733900~S25
White fragility : Why it’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism by Robin DiAngelo https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b2035846~S31
Adult Audiobooks
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad (audiobook) https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b2064597~S25
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (audiobook) by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b2006081~S25
Adult Fiction
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b1961130~S25
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b2037099~S25
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b2003076~S25
Juvenile Fiction
Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b2072460~S25
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b1893677~S25
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b2016844~S2
New Kid by Jerry Craft https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b2033095~S25
Unstoppable Octobia May by Sharon G. Flake https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b1928426~S255
Juvenile Non-Fiction
A Kids Book about Racism by Jelani Memory https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b2073151~S25
Young Adult Non-Fiction
Just Mercy: A True Story of the Fight for Justice (adapted for young adult readers) by Bryan Stevenson (audiobook) https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b2073077~S25
Young Adult Fiction
Dear Martin by Nic Stone https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b2000272~S25
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b1982072~S25
Movies
Just Mercy (Blu-Ray) https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b2069012~S25
Just Mercy (DVD) https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b2069013~S25
Slavery by Another Name (DVD) https://merlin.nwls.lib.wi.us/record=b1784324~S25