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Book Title
Author(s)
Book Info
Discussion Date
Book Type
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pub date
Categories
Author gender
Author race and/or ethnicity
Borrow links
Buy links
Notes
1919
Eve L. Ewing

Details

Poetry
88
2019
Anti-Black racism
Chicago
History
F
Black

ChiPubLib, Hoopla: aBook, eBook

Haymarket

Chicago Race Riots of 1919

All About Love
bell hooks

Details

Feb 20, 2022
Non-fiction
272
2001
Feminism
F
Black

ChiPubLib, Hoopla

Semicolon

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists
Mikki Kendall

Details

Graphic novel
208
2019
Abolition
Anti-Black racism
Feminism
History
Politics
Social Justice
F
Black

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

covers the key figures and events that have advanced women’s rights from antiquity to the modern era

America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
Elizabeth Hinton

Details

Non-fiction
408
2021
Anti-Black racism
History
Police Violence
Social Justice
Politics
F
Black

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

American Pharoah: Mayor Richard J. Daley: His Battle for Chicago and the Nation
Adam Cohen & Elizabeth Taylor

Details

Bio/Memoir
624
2000
Chicago
History
Urban Development
M/F
White

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Details

Non-fiction
296
2014
History
Indigenous
F
White

ChiPubLib, Hoopla

Semicolon

Young reader's version also available.

Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Davis

Details

Non-fiction
128
2003
Abolition
Anti-Black racism
Social Justice
F
Black

ChiPubLib, Hoopla

Semicolon

Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Details

Non-fiction
176
2015
Anti-Black racism
History
M
Black

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

Black Power : The Politics of Liberation
Kwame Ture & Charles Hamilton

Details

Non-fiction
258
1967/2011
Anti-Black racism
Social Justice
M/M
Black

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

Born a Crime
Trevor Noah

Details

Bio/Memoir
304
2019
Anti-Black racism
Immigration
M
Black

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

Great audiobook.

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson

Details

Fiction
496
2020
Anti-Black racism
History
F
Black

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

Criticism of this analogy is that caste can change but race cannot.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask
Anton Treuer

Details

Essays
188
2012
Indigenous
M
Ojibwe

ChiPubLib, Hoopla

Semicolon

Young Readers version also available

Extremism
John Berger

Details

Non-fiction
216
2018
Politics
M
White

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race & Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America
Beryl Satte

Details

Non-fiction
528
2010
Anti-Black racism
Chicago
History
Urban Development
F
White

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
Eve L. Ewing

Details

Aug 21, 2022
Non-fiction
240
2018
Anti-Black racism
Chicago
Urban Development
F
Black

ChiPubLib, Hoopla

Semicolon

High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
Ben Austen

Details

Non-fiction
400
2019
Anti-Black racism
Chicago
Urban Development
M
White

ChiPubLib, Hoopla: aBook, eBook

Semicolon

Story of Cabrini-Green

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall

Details

Jan 16, 2022
Essays
288
2021
Anti-Black racism
Feminism
F
Black

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

Discussion Guide, Author site, NPR Review, Author interview

Imprints: The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and the City of Chicago
John N. Low

Details

Oct 16, 2022
Essays
328
2016
Chicago
Indigenous
Urban Development
M
Potawatomi

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu

Details

Fiction
288
2020
Asian American
M
Chinese-American

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson

Details

Non-fiction
368
2015
Anti-Black racism
Social Justice
M
Black

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

Also a film. And here's a discussion guide.

Killing Rage: Ending Racism
bell hooks

Details

Essays
288
1996
Anti-Black racism
Social Justice
Feminism
F
Black

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change
Stacey Abrams

Details

Jun 19, 2022
Self-help
256
2019
Politics
Social Justice
F
Black

ChiPubLib, Hoopla

Semicolon

March trilogy
John Lewis

Details

Graphic novel
500
2016
Anti-Black racism
History
Politics
Social Justice
M/var
Black

ChiPubLib: Book 1, Book 2, Book 3 Hoopla: Bk 1, Bk 2, Bk 3

Semicolon

New sequel: Run

Me and White Supremacy
Layla F. Saad

Details

Self-help
256
2020
Anti-Black racism
F
Black

ChiPubLib, Hoopla

Semicolon

Read together in the group in 2021. There is also a journal.

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Cathy Park Hong

Details

May 15, 2022
Essays
224
2020
Asian American
F
Korean-American

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

New Yorker Review

My Time Among the Whites
Jennine Capó Crucet

Details

Essays
208
2018
Latinx
F
Cuban-American

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election
Stephen and Paul Kendrick

Details

Non-fiction
368
2021
History
Politics
M/M
White

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder

Details

Essays
128
2017
History
Politics
M
White

ChiPubLib, illustrated version

Semicolon

A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism.

Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
Maya Schenwarm Victoria Law

Details

Non-fiction
336
2021
Abolition
Social Justice
F/F
White
Chinese-American
Stamped family of books
Ibram X Kendi

Details

Non-fiction
var
var
Anti-Black racism
History
Social Justice
M
Black

Stamped from the Beginning, Stamped (YA), Stamped for Kids, HTBaA

Semicolon

There are 4 books: Stamped from the Beginning; How to be an Antiracist; Stamped (YA); Stamped for kids

Teaching to Transgress
bell hooks

Details

Non-fiction
216
1994
Education
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones/various

Details

Jul 17, 2022
Essays
624
2021
Anti-Black racism
History
F/var
Black/various

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein

Details

Non-fiction
368
2018
Anti-Black racism
History
Urban Development
M
White

ChiPubLib, Hoopla

Semicolon

The Cooking Gene | A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
Michael W. Twitty

Details

Non-fiction
464
2017
History
Politics
M
Black

ChiPubLib, Hoopla

Semicolon

The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
Charles Blow

Details

Non-fiction
256
2021
Anti-Black racism
Politics
Social Justice
M
Black

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin

Details

Essays
112
1963
Anti-Black racism
Social Justice
M
Black

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

A stirring, intimate reflection on the nature of race and American nationhood that has inspired generations of writers and thinkers, first published in 1963, the same year as the March on Washington

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
Jesmyn Ward; various

Details

Essays
240
2017
Anti-Black racism
History
F/var
Black/various

ChiPubLib, Hoopla

Semicolon

a response to The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot

Details

Non-fiction
381
2010
Anti-Black racism
History
Medicine
F
White

ChiPubLib

Semicolon


The Lost Black Scholar: Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought
David A. Varel

Details

Bio/Memoir
304
2018
Anti-Black racism
History
M
White

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

The Round House
Louise Erdich

Details

Fiction
368
2013
Indigenous
F
Ojibwe

ChiPubLib, Hoopla: aBook, eBook

Semicolon

The Sentence
Louise Erdrich

Details

Fiction
400
2021
Indigenous
F
Ojibwe
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
Natalie Y. Moore

Details

Mar 20, 2022
Non-fiction
272
2017
Chicago
Urban Development
F
Black

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Anne Fadiman

Details

Apr 17, 2022
Non-fiction
368
2012
Asian American
Medicine
Abolition
F
White

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Heather McGhee

Details

Non-fiction
448
2021
Anti-Black racism
Social Justice
F
Black

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism
Kyla Schuller

Details

Non-fiction
304
2021
Feminism
F
White

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

Brings to life the two-hundred-year counter history of Black, Indigenous, Latina, poor, queer, and trans women pushing back against white feminists and uniting to dismantle systemic injustice

The Undocumented Americans
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Details

Sept 18, 2022
Non-fiction
208
2021
Immigration
Latinx
F
Ecuadorian-American

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson

Details

Fiction
640
2010
Anti-Black racism
History
Politics
Social Justice
F
Black

ChiPubLib, Hoopla

Semicolon

They Called Us Enemy
George Takei

Details

Graphic novel
224
2020
Asian American
M
Japanese-American

ChiPubLib, Hoopla

Semicolon

We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Mariame Kaba

Details

Dec 18, 2022
Non-fiction
240
2021
Abolition
Anti-Black racism
F
Black

ChiPubLib, Hoopla: aBook, eBook

Semicolon

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

Details

Nov 20, 2022
Essays
400
2017
Anti-Black racism
History
Politics
Social Justice
M
Black

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

Draws a line between Reconstruction era and today's landscape

White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
Kevin Kruse

Details

Non-fiction
352
2005
Anti-Black racism
Urban Development
M
White

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White
Frank H. Wu

Details

Essays
416
2003
Asian American
Immigration
M
Chinese-American

ChiPubLib

Semicolon

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