The Jane Addams Center for Civic Engagement, alongside Howard Colman Library, curates the Anti-Racism eBook Collection. The titles in this collection–which wrestles with the topics of race, racism, and anti-racism–are available free of charge to the campus community via Colman Library. A list of all the titles in the collection is available here, as well as on the library’s website, which is where the books can be downloaded.
If you have suggestions for titles to add to our collection, email us at jacce@rockford.edu with subject line “Suggestion for Anti-Racism eBook Collection.”
Anti-Racism eBook Collection Catalog
Last updated March 2022.
- A Black Woman’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
- American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
- A More Beautiful and Terrible History by Jeanne Theoharis
- An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
- Angela Davis: an Autobiography by Angela Davis
- An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
- Assata: an Autobiography by Assata Shakur
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer Eberhardt
- Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard
- Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century by Monique Morris
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire
- Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Haney López
- Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown
- Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts
- For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…And the Rest of Y’all Too : Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education by Christopher Emdin
- Freedom Is a Constant Struggle : Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis
- From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Habits of Whiteness by Terrance MacMullan
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide by Crystal Marie Fleming
- How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
- How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
- Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents From the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners by Matt Meyer
- Let It Bang: A Young Black Man’s Reluctant Odyssey Into Guns by RJ Young
- Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, From Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill
- On the Other Side of Freedom : The Case for Hope by DeRay Mckesson
- Pleasure Activism : The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown
- Policing the Black Man : Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment by Angela Davis
- Race for Profit : How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Racism Without Racists : Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
- Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
- Sister Citizen by Melissa V. Harris-Perry
- Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther by Jeffrey Haas
- The Color of Success : Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority by Ellen Wu
- The Condemnation of Blackness : Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
- Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre
- Unapologetic : A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene Carruthers
- We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance by Linda Sarsour
- We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba
- We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice by adrienne maree brown
- Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim
- White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism by Kevin Kruse
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- Why We Can’t Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr.
