Reading tips for the Week Against Racism

The UN’s International Day Against Racism is celebrated on March 21.

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.   

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



Ahmed, Sara, 2014



Ahmed, Sara, 2012 



Alemanji, Aminkeng A. (ed.), 2018



Coates, Ta-Nehisi, 2015



Gates, Henry Louis Jr, 2019



Hervik, Peter (ed.), 2019



Hubara, Koko, 2017



Kendi, Ibram, 2019



Keskinen, Suvi, Seikkula, Minna, Mkwesha, Faith (eds.), 2021 



Oluo, Ijeoma, 2018 



Rossi, Leena-Maija, 2015

 

Saad, Layla F., 2020 



Ward, Jesmyn (ed.), 2016 

 

Fiction



Achebe, Chinua, 1958 



Angelou, Maya, 1969



Butler, Octavia E.; Jennings, John; Duffy, Damian, 2017 



Evaristo, Bernardine, 2008

 

Gyasi, Yaa, 2016

 

Hurston, Zora Neale, 1937



Morrison, Toni, 1987 



Vuong, Ocean, 2019 



Ward, Jesmyn, 2017



Whitehead, Colson, 2016