Your Anti-Racist Reading List, Courtesy Of Boise’s Rediscovered Bookshop

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers nearly one month ago, the conversation about race changed rapidly in the U.S. Calls for white people to educate themselves about systemic racism and how they benefit from it were brought to the forefront. And many white people who hadn’t engaged before seemed to listen.

Anti-racist book recommendations began popping up everywhere and local bookshops couldn’t keep their shelves stocked with many of the suggestions. 

All those recommendations can be overwhelming, especially for someone just beginning to acknowledge racism and white supremacy in our society and within themselves. 

So to help us begin our journey, we’re joined today by Laura DeLaney, owner of the Rediscovered Bookshop, to give us an anti-racist reading list and talk about why reading and learning is the best place to start.

Laura’s Suggestions, in order of mention: 

• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning, Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi (link)
  
• So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo (link)
  
• Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family, Mitchell Jackson (link) -- Jackson will be joining Rediscovered Bookshop for the July meeting of the Human Rights Book Club. Information about the July 9 event can be found on their website.
  
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo (link) 
  
• YA Book: This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work, Tiffany Jewell (link)
  
• Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi (link)
  
• Transcendent Kingdom: A novel, Yaa Gyasi (link) 
  
• How Long 'til Black Future Month?: Stories, N. K. Jemisin (link)
  
• Kids Book: One Crazy Summer, Rita Williams-Garcia (link)
  
• Kids Book: Ghost, Jason Reynolds (link)
  
• Deacon King Kong, James McBride (link)
  
• The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas (link) -- Gemma Gaudette's choice!
  

 
Rediscovered Bookshop's Best Seller List as of June 23, 2020: 

1. So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Olou
2. White Fragility:  Why it is so hard for White people to talk about Race, Robin Diangelo
3. Stamped from the Beginning:  A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi
4. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness, Michelle Alexander
5. Stamped: Racism, Anti-racism, and You -  a Remix, Jason Reynolds
6. Color of Law, Richard Rothstein
7. The Trouble I’ve Seen:  Changing the Way the Church Views Racism, Drew Hart
8. How to be an Anti-Racist, Ibram X. Kendi
9. Moment of Lift:  How Empowering Women Changes the World, Melinda Gates
10. Tie: Discovering Idaho’s Scenic Drives and Backroad Treasures, Linda Lantzy and Shari Hart & Numbered: Inside Idaho’s Prison for Women, 1887 - 1968, Todd Shallat & Amber Beierle

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