Anti-Racism and Black Authors
As two white girls we will never begin to understand the hardships that black people go through on a daily basis. What we can do is educate ourselves and support the Black community.
Whilst collating this list, we realised that our bookshelves are very white and we want to change that. Our education only focused on texts by white people (mostly old men) and so we feel like we’re behind the times. Although we have this list, we want recommendations. Who’s your favourite black author? Which books should we read to be better informed? Help us be better.
C🌙 and M🌸
Anti-Racism
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise Your Privilege, COmbat Racism and Change the World by Layla F. Saad
- White Fragility: Why it’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Fiction
- Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
- I Know Why the Caged Birds by Maya Angelou
- My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
- Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
- Children or Blood and Bone by TOmu Adeyemi
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- The Trap by Melanie Raabe
- Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- What Sunny Saw in the Flames by Nnedi Okorafor
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
- Slay by Brittney Morris
- Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
