March 21 is the UN’s International Day Against Racism. The day has been celebrated since 1966, and it also marks the start of the Week Against Racism. You can find more information on the Red Cross website.
The library’s reading recommendations include both fiction and nonfiction books. All links take you to the library's Helka database, where you can find more information on the availability of the books.
Nonfiction
The cultural politics of emotion
Ahmed, Sara, 2014
On being included : racism and diversity in institutional life
Ahmed, Sara, 2012
Antiracism education in and out of schools
Alemanji, Aminkeng A. (ed.), 2018
Between the world and me
Coates, Ta-Nehisi, 2015
Stony the road : reconstruction, white supremacy, and the rise of Jim Crow
Gates, Henry Louis Jr, 2019
Racialization, racism, and anti-racism in the Nordic countries
Hervik, Peter (ed.), 2019
Ruskeat Tytöt : tunne-esseitä
Hubara, Koko, 2017
How to be an antiracist
Kendi, Ibram, 2019
Rasismi, valta ja vastarinta : rodullistaminen, valkoisuus ja koloniaalisuus Suomessa
Keskinen, Suvi, Seikkula, Minna, Mkwesha, Faith (eds.), 2021
So you want to talk about race
Oluo, Ijeoma, 2018
Muuttuva sukupuoli : seksuaalisuuden, luokan ja värin politiikkaa
Rossi, Leena-Maija, 2015
Me and white supremacy: combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor
Saad, Layla F., 2020
The fire this time : a new generation speaks about race
Ward, Jesmyn (ed.), 2016
Fiction
Things fall apart
Achebe, Chinua, 1958
I know why the caged bird sings
Angelou, Maya, 1969
Kindred: a graphic novel adaptation
Butler, Octavia E.; Jennings, John; Duffy, Damian, 2017
Blonde roots
Evaristo, Bernardine, 2008
Homegoing
Gyasi, Yaa, 2016
Their eyes were watching God
Hurston, Zora Neale, 1937
Beloved
Morrison, Toni, 1987
On Earth we're briefly gorgeous
Vuong, Ocean, 2019
Sing, unburied, sing
Ward, Jesmyn, 2017
The Underground Railroad
Whitehead, Colson, 2016