Antiracism Resources for Adults | New Lenox Public Library

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Our staff have organized several lists of books and films at New Lenox Library to better understand current events and the history of racism in America. These resources focus on a variety of topics, including historical context, systemic inequality, anti-Black violence, protest, intersectionality, allyship, education, hope, celebration, and resilience.

Our collection is always growing. View our New Releases for a list of monthly new media.

Non-Fiction Reading for Adults
Fiction Reading for Adults
Viewing for Adults

Non-Fiction Reading for Adults

The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein

When They Call You a Terrorist: a Black Lives Matter Memoir
Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, & You
Jason Reynolds

The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago & American Segregation
Natalie Y. Moore

Between the World & Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Michael Eric Dyson

Black Klansman: Race, Hate, & the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime
Ron Stallworth

We Were Eight Years in Power: an American Tragedy
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Mira Jacob

I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
Matt Taibbi

How Does It Feel to be a Problem? Being Young & Arab in America
Moustafa Bayoumi

The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, & Do
Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD

How We Fight for Our Lives: a Memoir
Saeed Jones

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Jose Antonio Vargas

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice & Redemption
Bryan Stevenson

Don't Label Me: an Incredible Conversation for Divided Times
Irshad Manji

Why We Can't Wait
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Manning Marable

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl & Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
Damon Young

Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
Nefertiti Austin

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah

Stay Woke: A Meditation Guide for the Rest of Us
Justin Michael Williams

Rising Out of Hatred: the Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
Eli Saslow

Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America
Vegas Tenold

The Second Coming of the KKK: the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s & the American Political Tradition
Linda Gordon

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy
Carol Anderson; foreword by Senator Dick Durbin

Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly

Heavy: an American Memoir
Kiese Laymon

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
James W. Loewen

When Affirmative Action was White: an Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
Ira Katznelson

The Other Wes Moore: One Name & Two Fates
Wes Moore

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery & the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E. Baptist

Fiction Reading for Adults

Monster
Walter Dean Myers

Homegoing: A Novel
Yaa Gyasi

The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison

Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston

Viewing for Adults

I Am Not Your Negro (DVD)

42: the Jackie Robinson Story (DVD)

Chi-raq (DVD)

BlacKkKlansman (DVD)

If Beale Street Could Talk (DVD)

Loving (DVD)

Selma (DVD)

Get Out (DVD)

Hidden Figures (DVD)