This intentionally broad discussion series seeks to encourage and support community members in their exploration of and engagement with works that provide insight on anti-Black racism.
Recent Discussions
The Other Black Girl (2021) by Zakiya Dalila Harris | Request now
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What the Fireflies Knew (2022) by Kai Harris | Request now
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Lover Man (1959) by Alston Anderson | Request now
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Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives From Black History Volume 1 (2014) by Joel Christian Gill | Request now
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Oreo (1974) by Fran Ross | Request now
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Swing Time (2016) by Zadie Smith | Request now or audiobook
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The Pretty One : On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me (2019) by Keah Brown | Request now
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The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl (2015) by Issa Rae | Request now
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Parable of the Sower (1993) by Octavia Butler | Request book or audiobook
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Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas (1960s) by Henry Dumas | Request now
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Past Discussions
Queenie (2019) by Candice Carty-Williams | Request now or audiobook
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Akata Witch (2019) by Nnedi Okorafor | Request now
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Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston | Request book or audiobook
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019) by Marlon James | Request book or audiobook
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Indigo (2014) by Beverly Jenkins | Request book or audiobook
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The Street (1946) by Ann Petry | Request now
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Passing (1929) by Nella Larsen | Watch the discussion
Brown Girl Dreaming (2014) by Jacqueline Woodson | Watch the discussion
My Sister, the Serial Killer (2018) by Oyinkan Braithwaite | Watch the discussion
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet A. Jacobs | Watch the discussion
The Souls of Black Folk (1903) by W.E.B. Du Bois | Watch the discussion
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992) by Toni Morrison | Watch the discussion
The Other Side (2001) by Jacqueline Woodson | Watch the discussion
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) by Rebecca Skloot | Watch the discussion
The New Jim Crow (2010) by Michelle Alexander | Watch the discussion
Selma (2015) directed by Ava DuVernay | Watch the discussion
White Rage (2016) by Carol Anderson | Watch the discussion
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (2017) by Riley Snorton | Watch the discussion
I am not your Negro (2017) directed by Raul Peck | Watch the discussion
Invisible No More (2017) by Andrea J. Ritchie | Watch the discussion
The Color of Law (2017) by Richard Rothstein | Watch the discussion
The Cooking Gene (2017) by Michael Twitty | Watch the discussion
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (2017) by Beverly Tatum | Watch the discussion
Eloquent Rage (2018) by Brittney Cooper | Watch the discussion
I Can't Date Jesus (2018) by Michael Arceneaux | Watch the discussion
King in the Wilderness (2018) directed by Peter Kunhardt | Watch the discussion
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness (2018) by George Lipsitz | Watch the discussion
Possible Future Discussions
• Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (1868) by Elizabeth Keckley | Request now
• Iola Leroy: Shadows Uplifted (1892) by Frances E. W. Harper | Request now
• Of One Blood The Hidden Self (1902) by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins | Request now
• Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick (1925) by Zora Neale Hurston | Request book or audiobook
• Not Without Laughter (1930) by Langston Hughes | Request now
• A Raisin in the Sun (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry | Request book or audiobook
• Sons Of Darkness, Sons Of Light: A Novel of Some Probability (1969) by John A. Williams
• Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo (1982) by Ntozake Shange
• Thomas and Beulah (1986) by Rita Dove | Request now
• Devil in a Blue Dress (1990) by Walter Mosley | Request book or audiobook
• Meridian (2003) by Alice Walker | Request now
• The Fifth Season (2015) by N. K. Jemisin | Request now
• Another Brooklyn (2016) by Jacqueline Woodson | Request now
• Such a Fun Age (2019) by Kiley Reid | Request now
• Conjure Women (2020) by Afia Atakora | Request now
• Babel-17 (1967) by Samuel R. Delany | Request now