BORN A CRIME: FURTHER READING AND RESOURCES
Need help using your Spokane Public Library student account? Click here!
RECOMMENDED READING
TITLE: Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
AUTHOR: Mira Jacob SUMMARY: An intimate graphic memoir about American identity as it has shaped the author's interracial family in the aftermath of the 2016 elections. WHERE TO FIND THE BOOK: Check out the ebook or audiobook from OverDrive via Spokane Public Library |
TITLE: Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's
AUTHOR: Tiffany Midge SUMMARY: A powerful and inviting collection of Tiffany Midge's musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in modern America. WHERE TO FIND THE BOOK: Check out the ebook from OverDrive via Spokane Public Library |
TITLE: Becoming
AUTHOR: Michelle Obama SUMMARY: An intimate memoir by the former First Lady chronicles the experiences that have shaped her remarkable life, from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago through her setbacks and achievements in the White House. WHERE TO FIND THE BOOK: Check out the ebook or audiobook from OverDrive via Spokane Public Library or check it out from NC's library |
TITLE: Between the World and Me
AUTHOR: Ta-Nehisi Coates SUMMARY: Told through the author's own evolving understanding of the subject over the course of his life comes a bold and personal investigation into America's racial history and its contemporary echoes. WHERE TO FIND THE BOOK: Check out the ebook or audiobook from OverDrive via Spokane Public Library or check it out from NC's library |
TITLE: I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
AUTHOR: Austin Channing Brown SUMMARY: An eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America. WHERE TO FIND THE BOOK: Check out the ebook or audiobook from OverDrive via Spokane Public Library or check it out from NC's library |
TITLE: So You Want to Talk About Race
AUTHOR: Ijeoma Oluo SUMMARY: A Seattle-based writer, editor and speaker tackles the sensitive, hyper-charged racial landscape in current America, discussing the issues of privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word. WHERE TO FIND THE BOOK: Check out the ebook or audiobook from OverDrive via Spokane Public Library or check it out from NC's library |
TITLE: Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents
AUTHOR: Isabel Wilkerson SUMMARY: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns identifies the qualifying characteristics of historical caste systems to reveal how a rigid hierarchy of human rankings, enforced by religious views, heritage and stigma, impact everyday American lives. WHERE TO FIND THE BOOK: Check out the ebook or audiobook from OverDrive via Spokane Public Library or check it out from NC's library |
TITLE: Such a Fun Age
AUTHOR: Kiley Reid SUMMARY: A story about race and privilege is centered around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both. WHERE TO FIND THE BOOK: Check out the ebook or audiobook from OverDrive via Spokane Public Library or check it out from NC's library |
GO DEEPER:
- VIDEO: Eli Saslow & Derek Black - From Racism to Redemption in “Rising Out of Hatred”
- VIDEO: Trevor Chats with His Grandma About Apartheid and Tours Her Home, “MTV Cribs”-Style
- PODCAST: Code Switch from NPR
- PODCAST EPISODE: Keeping Native Languages Alive with Anton Treuer
- VIDEO: SCC MLK Celebration: "So You Want to Talk About Race" with Ijeoma Oluo
- VIDEO: Trevor Noah on taking "Born a Crime" from the page to students' ears
- ARTICLE: Apartheid | Khan Academy
- ARTICLE: 'Apartheid and Jim Crow are really no different': Why George Floyd's death reverberated in Africa