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BostonPL_Black Lives Matter: 24 eBooks & eAudiobooks for Current Times

Now and always, the Boston Public Library stands with the Black community. Check out one of these titles today to educate yourself about police brutality, anti-Black racism, and the BLM movement. Some of these books may also be available in other languages and formats. Check the catalog, or the Overdrive booklist linked below, for other options. Learn more about our digital platforms and how to access them here: https://www.bpl.org/stream-and-download/ #BlackLivesMatter

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25 items

  • White Fragility

    Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

    DiAngelo, Robin
    In this in-depth exploration, anti-racist educator Robin DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what can be done to engage more constructively.
    eBookBeacon Press, 2018
  • In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and…
    eBookRandom House Publishing Group, 2015
  • The New Jim Crow

    Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

    Alexander, Michelle
    Former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it.
    eBookThe New Press, 2020
  • Unapologetic

    A Black, Queer and Feminist Mandate for Our Movement

    Carruthers, Charlene
    An inside look from an on-the-ground activist and movement leader about how to move people from the margins to the center of political strategy and practice.
    eBookBeacon Press, 2018
  • Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word.
    eAudiobookBlackstone Publishing, 2018
  • A poetic and powerful memoir about what it means to be a Black woman in America—and the co-founding of a movement that demands justice for all in the land of the free.
    eBookSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2018
  • Dyson argues that if we are to make real racial progress we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted.
    eBookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2017. — E184.A1
  • The Color of Law

    a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

    Rothstein, Richard,
    Through extraordinary revelations and extensive research, Rothstein comes to chronicle an untold story that begins in the 1920s, showing how the process of de jure segregation began with explicit racial zoning, as millions of African…
    eBookNew York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2017] — E185.61 .R8185 2017x
  • Kendi weaves together an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science, bringing it all together with an engaging personal narrative of his own awakening to antiracism.
    eBookRandom House Publishing Group, 2019
  • Me and White Supremacy

    Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

    Saad, Layla
    Based on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated participants worldwide, Me and White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day journey of how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously)…
    eBookSourcebooks Inc, 2020
  • Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Tatum argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication…
    eBookBasic Books, 2017
  • How to Be Less Stupid About Race

    On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide

    Fleming, Crystal M.
    An essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the way race is represented in the classroom, pop culture, media, and politics.
    Downloadable AudiobookBeacon Press, 2018
  • Exploring issues from eradicated black history to the political purpose of white dominance, whitewashed feminism to the inextricable link between class and race, Eddo-Lodge offers a timely and essential new framework for how to see,…
    eBookBloomsbury Publishing, 2017
  • I'm Still Here

    Reese's Book Club: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

    Brown, Austin Channing
    In a time when nearly all institutions claim to value "diversity" in their mission statements, here is a powerful account of how and why our actions so often fall short of our words. Austin writes in detail about her journey to self-worth…
    eBookHarmony/Rodale/Convergent, 2018
  • White Rage

    The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

    Anderson, Carol
    As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as “black rage,” historian Carol Anderson wrote that this was, instead, “white rage…
    eBookBloomsbury Publishing
  • The Fire This Time

    A New Generation Speaks about Race

    Ward, Jesmyn
    Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin’s 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our…
    eBookScribner, 2016
  • Just Mercy

    A Story of Justice and Redemption

    Stevenson, Bryan
    Bryan Stevenson founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need. This is a powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken…
    eBookRandom House Publishing Group, 2014
  • Eloquent Rage

    A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

    Cooper, Brittney
    Cooper argues that ultimately feminism, friendship, and faith in one's own superpowers are all we really need to turn things right side up again.
    eBookSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2018
  • They Can't Kill Us All

    Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement

    Lowery, Wesley, 1990-
    By posing the question, "What does the loss of any one life mean to the rest of the nation?" Lowery examines the cumulative effect of decades of racially biased policing in segregated neighborhoods with failing schools, crumbling…
    eBookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016. — E185.86 .L69 2016x
  • Haunted and haunting, Jones’s memoir tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears.
    eBookSimon & Schuster, 2019