Lynnfield Public Library Shares Resources For Understanding Racial Injustice: Updated March 2021

Press release from the Lynnfield Public Library:

March 19, 2021

Update: In light of the rise in hate crimes against Asian-Americans over the past year, we have updated this list of anti-racism resources originally posted in June 2020.

Below are some recommended resources for understanding racism and racial injustice. These titles are all available through our catalog, Overdrive/Libby, or hoopla. Please email lfd@noblenet.org or call 781-334-5411 with any questions or for further titles.

Children’s Resources

Count Me In by Varsha Bajaj
Book

Something Happened In Our Town by Marianne Celano
Book | eAudiobook

Blended by Sharon M. Draper
Book | eAudiobook

Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
Book | eBook | eAudiobook

A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
Book | eBook

Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
Book | eBook | eAudiobook | DVD | Stream

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Book | eBook | eAudiobook

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Book | eBook | CD Audiobook | eAudiobook

Front Desk by Kelly Yang
Book | eBook | eAudiobook | Playaway

Teen Resources

Swing by Kwame Alexander
Book | eBook

We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
Book

How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
Book | eBook | eAudiobook

Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Book | eBook | eAudiobook

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
Book | eBook | CD Audiobook | eAudiobook

Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Book | eBook | CD Audiobook | eAudiobook

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Book | Large Print | eBook | CD Audiobook | eAudiobook | Playaway | DVD

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Book

American Street by Ibi Zoboi
Book | eBook | eAudiobook | Playaway

Adult Resources

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Book | eBook | CD Audiobook | eAudiobook

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness by Michelle Alexander
Book | eBook | CD Audiobook | eAudiobook

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Book | Large Print | eBook | CD Audiobook | eAudiobook

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Book | eBook

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
Book | eBook | eAudiobook

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Book | Large Print | CD Audiobook | eBook | eAudiobook | en Español

When They Call You a Terrorist: a Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
Book | eBook | CD Audiobook | eAudiobook

How to Respond to Coronavirus Racism by Learning for Justice
Article

The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee
Book

Immigrant Acts: on Asian American Cultural Politics by Lisa Lowe
Book

No-No Boy by John Okada
Book

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Book | eBook | CD Audiobook | eAudiobook

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Book | Large Print | eBook | CD Audiobook | eAudiobook | Playaway

Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White by Frank Wu
Book

#AsianAmCovidStories Documentary Series
Youtube

I Am Not Your Negro Documentary
DVD | Stream

This press release was produced by the Lynnfield Public Library. The views expressed are the author's own.