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Race & Racism in the united States

7/23/2019

 
This list has been updated.
Alexander
The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander, 364.973 ALE *ª
The Sellout, Paul Beatty, F BEA *
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez, Aaron Bobrow-Strain, 972.1 BOB *
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates, 305.8 COA *ª
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, 970.004 DUN *ª
The Fire This Time, edited by Jesmyn Ward, 305.896 FIR
Locking Up Our Own, James Forman, 364.6 FOR *

Get Out
Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay, 814 GAY *ª
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Get Out, DVD GET
The Black and the Blue, Matthew Horace, 363.2092 HOR
I Am Not Your Negro, DVD 323.1196 IAM
Survival Math, Mitchell S. Jackson, 305.8 JAC
Negroland, Margo Jefferson, 305.896 JEF *ª
Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi, 305.8 KEN *
Heavy: An American Memoir, Kiese Laymon, 305.89 LAY *ª
​The Making of Black Lives Matter, Christopher J. Lebron, 305.896 LEB
Brown White Black, Nishta Mehra, 305.8 MEH

Oluo

Dying of Whiteness, Jonathan Metzl, 362.1089 MET *
The Origin of Others, Toni Morrison, 305 MOR
So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo, 305.8 OLU *ª
Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine, 811 RAN *
​No Human Is Illegal, J.J. Mulligan Sepulveda, 325.73 SEP

Good Kids Bad City, Kyle Swenson, 345.77 SWE
A More Beautiful and Terrible History, Jeanne Theoharis, 323.1196073 THE
The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas, YA F THO *ª
​The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, David Treuer, 970.004 TRE *ª

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After Reading or Watching The Handmaid's Tale

7/23/2019

 
Alderman
The Power, Naomi Alderman, SF ALD *ª
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson, YA F AND *ª
The Heart Goes Last, Margaret Atwood, F ATW *ª
Women & Power: A Manifesto, Mary Beard, 305.42 BEA *
Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler, SF BUT PAR-2 *
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, Meg Elison, SF ELI ROA-1
​The Children of Men, P.D. James, F JAM *ª
Glory O'Brien's History of the Future, A.S. King, YA F KIN *
California, Edan Lepucki, F LEP *ª

Lepucki
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel, F MAN *ª
Gather the Daughters, Jennie Melamed, F MEL *
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, edited by Roxane Gay, 364.15 NOT *
Birthmarked, Caragh M. O'Brien, YA F OBR 1 *ª
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, Anne Helen Petersen, 305.409 PET
​​Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit, 305.42 SOL *
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Bannerless, Carrie Vaughn, SF VAU BAN-1 *
The Color Purple, Alice Walker, F WAL *
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf, 305.42 WOO *

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    Booklists and reading suggestions from the team at Monroe Public Library.

    After each title, you'll find links to reserve these items on LINKcat and Wisconsin's Digital Library. In many cases, you can choose from print, large print, audio CD, and Playaway, or ebooks and eaudiobooks.

    (LINKcat links from 2021 through 4/2022 may be broken. We'll fix them ASAP!)

    For lists before 2021:
    Titles with an asterisk * are available as ebooks and titles with an ª are available as digital audiobooks on Wisconsin's Digital Library.
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