Blog > Social Justice and Race Book and Movie List
Posted June 16, 2020
Matteson residents can place holds on the items in this list and pick them up through our curbside pickup service by requesting them on our catalog through their SWAN account here. Also find all the details about curbside pickup here.
NON-FICTION MATERIALS:
American Experience. Scottsboro : an American tragedy
Backlash : what happens when we talk honestly about racism in America. Yancy, George
Between the World and Me. Coates, Ta-Nehisi e-book & e-audio
Called to Rise : A Life in Faithful Service to the Community that Made Me. Brown, David O.
The Central Park Five. – DVD
Chokehold: Policing the Black Men. Butler, Paul
Debating race with Michael Eric Dyson. Dyson, Michael Eric
Handcuffed : What Holds Policing Back, and the Keys to Reform. Sparrow, Malcolm
How to Be an Antiracist. Kendi, Ibram X
I Am Not Your Negro. Baldwin, James. – DVD
Invisible No More : Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. Ritchie, Andrea J.
Search Results for Just Mercy : a story of justice and redemption. Stevenson, Bryan , audiobook,, e-book & e-audio
More Than a Month. – DVD
The Murder of Emmett Till. – DVD
The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Alexander, Michelle – , e-book & e-audio
So You Want to Talk About Race. Oluo, Ijeoma. – 305.8 OLU
Stamped From the Beginning :The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. Kendi, Ibram X.
We Can’t Breathe : On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival. Asim, Jabari.
White rage : the unspoken truth of our racial divide. Anderson, Carol
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? : And Other Conversations About Race. Tatum, Beverly Daniel
Whose Streets?. – DVD
FICTION BOOKS:
An American Marriage . Jones, Tayari. – AFRAM AM Jones
Invisible Man. Ellison, Ralph. – AFRM AM ELLISON, audiobook, e-book & e-audiobook
To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee, Harper. – FIC LEE, audiobook, e-book, e-audiobook
Native Son . Richard Wright. – FIC Wright, AFRM AM FIC Wright, e-book & e-audiobook, audiobook
Sing, Unburied, Sing. – AFR AM FIC WARD, e-book & e-audiobook
Their eyes Were Watching God. Hurston, Nora Zeale. – AFR AM FIC HURSTON
Fiction Movie, Playaway, audiobook, e-book
The Turner House. Flournoy, Angela – e-book
The Water Dancer : A Novel. Coates, Ta-Nehisi – e-book &e-audiobook, audiobook,, playaway
The Underground Railroad : A Novel. Whitehead, Colson. – AFR AM FIC WHITEHEAD, Playaway & audiobook
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