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Anti-Racism, Health Equity, and Inclusion

Recommended Books

Novice

Owned by the Library:

Not in the Library
You may try the local public library (Rosenberg for Galveston residents) or consider purchasing from a black-owned bookstore (links below)

  • Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
    Dorothy Roberts; The New Press; 2012; ISBN: 978-1595588340
  • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
    Austin Channing Brown; Convergent Books; 2018; ISBN:  978-1524760854
  • So You Want to Talk About Race
    Ijeoma Oluo; Seal Press; 2019; ISBN: 978-1580058827
  • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
    Ibram X Kendi; Bold Type Books; 2017; ISBN:  978-1568585987

Intermediate

In the Library - see links in the Novice Section
White Fragility & Medical Apartheid

Not in the Library 
You may try the local public library (Rosenberg for Galveston residents) or consider purchasing from a black-owned bookstore (links below)

  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
    Angela Davis & Frank Barat; Haymarket Books; 2016; ISBN: 978-1608465644
  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
    Michelle Alexander; New Press; 2012; ISBN:  978-1595586438
  • This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
  • Cherríe Moraga  &  Gloria Anzaldú; State University of New York Press; 2015; ISBN:  978-1438454382

Expert

In the Library:

Expert

Not in the Library 
You may try the local public library (Rosenberg for Galveston residents) or consider purchasing from a black-owned bookstore (links below)

  • Assata: An Autobiography
    Assata Shakur; Lawrence Hill Boks; 2001; ISBN: 978-1556520747
  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
    Angela Davis & Frank Barat; Haymarket Books; 2016; ISBN: 978-1608465644
  • Black Skin, White Masks
    Frantz Fannon; Grove Press; 2008; ISBN: 978-0802143006
  • How to be an Anti-Racist
    Ibram X. Kendi; One World; 2019; ISBN:  978-0525509288
  • Are Prisons Obsolete?
  • Angela Davis. Seven Stories Press; 2003; ISBN:  978-158322581
  • This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
    Cherríe Moraga  &  Gloria Anzaldú; State University of New York Press; 2015; ISBN:  978-1438454382

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