Racial Justice Collection

Law Library staff provide a complete and up-to-date title list for the Racial Justice Collection below.

Collection Titles 

• A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland, by DaMaris Hill E185.86 .H656 2020
• A World Without Racism: Building Antiracist Futures, by Joshua Virasami, HT1563 .W67 2024
• Affrilachia, by Frank X Walker PS3623.A359 A34 2000
• Are Prisons Obsolete?, by Angela Y.  Davis HV9471 .D375 2003
• Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates E185.615 .C6335 2015b
• Black Bone: 25 Years of the Affrilachian Poets, by Bianca Lynne Spriggs and Jeremy Paden PS591.N4 B478 2018
• Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, by Cedric J. Robinson, HX436.5 .R63 2000
• Blacks in Appalachia, by William H. Turner, E185.912 .T875 1991
• Carceral Capitalism, by Jackie Wang, K2305 .W36 2018
• Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia, by Judy Schept, HV9475 .A55 S34 2022
• Country Queers: A Love Letter, by Rae Garringer, HQ73.3 .U6 G37 2024
• Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, by Richard Delgado, KF4755 .D454 2017 
• Deviant Hollers by Zane McNeill & Rebecca Scott, HQ73.73 .A6 D38 2024
• Discrimination and Disparities, by Thomas Sowell, E184.A1 S686 2019
• Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland, by Jonathan M. Metzl, RA563.M56 M48 2020
• Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else), by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, HM 753 .T35 2022
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, by Brittney Cooper, HQ1413.C67 C67 2019
• Engage: Indigenous, Black, and Afro-Indigenous Futures, by Joy James, JV305 .E54 2025
• Environmentalism From Below: How Global People's Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet, by Ashley Dawson, GE199 D44 D39 2024
• Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, by Angela Y. Davis, Frank Barat, et. al., E185.93.M6 F738 1999
• From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America, by Elizabeth Hinton (ebook, awaiting print copy availability)
• Gone Home: Race and Roots Through Appalachia, by Karida L. Brown, E185.93.K3 B76 2018
• #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice, by Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brook Foucault Welles, P302.37 .J35 2020
• Heavy: An American Memoir, by Kiese Laymon, PS3612.A959 Z46 2019
• How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America, Sara Sinclair, E89 .H69 2020
• How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi, E184.A1 K344 2019 
• How to Be Less Stupid about Race: Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide, by Crystal Marie Fleming, E184.A1 F576 2018
• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, HQ1426 .H689 2017 
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou and Oprah Winfrey (ebook, awaiting print copy availability)
• Intersectionality: Key Concepts, by Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge, HM480 .H55 2016
• Is Everyone Really Equal?  An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education, by Özlem Sensoy and Robin J DiAngelo, LC191 .S38 2017
• Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System, by M. Chris Fabricant, HV9950 .F33 2023
• Let This Radicalize You, by Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba, HM883 .H69 2023
• Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights, by Valena Beety, KF9756 .B44 2022
• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and become a Good Ancestor, by Layla F. Saad, HT1575 .S23 2020
• On Solidarity, by Deborah Chasman & Matt Lord, P94.6 .O576 2023
• Our History is the Future, by Nick Estes, E99 .D1 E87 2003
• Policing the Black Man, by Angela J. Davis , Bryan Stevenson, et al., HV9950 .P64 2018
• Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach, by Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, E184.A1 G5652 2019
• Racism without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States, by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, E184.A1 B597 2018 
• Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism, by Olúfẹmi O Táíwò, KZ6785 .T35 2025
• Rednecks and Barbarians: Uniting the White and Racialized Working Class, by Houria Bouteldja, DC34 .B633813 2004
• Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law: Why Structural Racism Persists, by Natsu Taylor Saito, KF4755 .S25 2020  
• Sister Outsider, by  Audre Lorde and Cheryl Clarke, PS3562.O75 S5 2007
• So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo, E184.A1 O454 2019
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibram X. Kendi, E185.61 .K358 2017   
• Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, by Michael Eric Dyson, E185.615 .D97 2017 
• The Anatomy of Racial Inequality, by Glenn C. Loury, E185.615 .L675 2002
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Alex Haley, et al., E185.97.L5 A3 2015 
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein, E185.61 .R8185 2018 
• The End of Policing, by Alex S. Vitale, HV8139 .V58 2018 
• The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns, by William H. Turner, E185.912 .T87 2021
• The Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry, by Maryann Erigha, PN1995.9 .N4 E75 2019
• The Myth That Made Us: How False Beliefs About Racism and Meritocracy Broke Our Economy (And How to Fix It), by Jeff Fuhrer, HC110 .I5 F847 2023
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander, HV9950 .A437 2020
• The Racial Glass Ceiling: Subordination in American Law and Culture, by Roy L. Brooks, E185.615 .B7294 2017
• Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, PS3515 .U789 T639 2006
• To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Paine, and Care, by Christopher Paul Harris, E184 .A1 H334 2023
• Two-Faced Racism : Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage, by Leslie Houts Picca, E184.A1 P53 2007
• When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America, by Paula J Giddings, E185.86 .G49 2006
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele, E185.97 .K43 A3 2020 
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin DiAngelo, HT1521 .D486 2018
• White Rage: the Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, by Carol Anderson, E185.61 .A5438 2017
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, by Beverly Daniel Tatum, E185.625 .T38 2017
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, by Reni Eddo-Lodge, DA125.A1 E33 2019 
• You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent, by Justin Brooks, KF9756 .B76 2023