Racial Justice and Anti-Racist E-Reading List: Great Reads

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Cane by Jean Toomer

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

Iron Cast by Destiny Soria

Monument by Natasha Trethewey

The Mule-Bone by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston

The New Black by Evie Shockley

The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry by Hilary Herbold; Arnold Rampersad (Editors)

Refuse by Julian Randall

Semiautomatic by Evie Shockley

Novels: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved by Toni Morrison

Be Holding by Ross Gay

Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Deacon King Kong by James McBride

A Phoenix First Must Burn by Patrice Caldwell (Editor)

Bedrock Faith by Eric Charles May

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements by Walidah Imarisha (Editor)

Dear Justyce by Nic Stone

Poems on various subjects, religious and moral by Phillis Wheatley

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano

Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World by David Walker

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States by William Wells Brown

Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black by Harriet E. Wilson

Incidents in the life of a slave girl : written by herself by Harriet Jacobs

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line by Charles W. Chesnutt

Slave Narratives by William L. Andrews; Henry Louis Gates

Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington

The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. DuBois

The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Red Record by Ida B. Wells