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Ibram X. Kendi's Reading List

Historian and director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research; National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist.

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Ibram X. Kendi's Antiracist Reading List (2019)

Antiracist reading list Kendi curated for Oprah Daily.

Source: www.oprah.com

Cover of Fatal Invention
Fatal Invention
Dorothy Roberts · 2011 · Buy on Amazon
"No book destabilized my fraught notions of racial distinction and hierarchy."
Cover of West Indian Immigrants: A Black Success Story?
West Indian Immigrants: A Black Success Story?
Suzanne Model · 2008 · Buy on Amazon
"Some of the same forces have led Americans to believe that the recent success of West Indian immigrants is rooted in cultural distinctiveness."
Cover of The Condemnation of Blackness
The Condemnation of Blackness
Khalil Gibran Muhammad · 2010 · Buy on Amazon
""Black" and "criminal" are as wedded in America as "star" and "spangled.""
Cover of Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston · 1937 · Buy on Amazon
"The black body exists within a wider black culture — one Hurston portrayed."
Cover of The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
Langston Hughes · 1926 · Buy on Amazon
"We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame."
Cover of The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison · 1970 · Buy on Amazon
Cover of The Blacker the Berry
The Blacker the Berry
Wallace Thurman · 1929 · Buy on Amazon
"Beautiful and hard-working black people come in all shades."
Cover of The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X · 1965 · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Dying of Whiteness
Dying of Whiteness
Jonathan M. Metzl · 2019 · Buy on Amazon
"Malcolm X began by adoring whiteness, grew to hate white people — Metzl explains how seemingly pro-white policies are killing whites."
Cover of Locking Up Our Own
Locking Up Our Own
James Forman Jr. · 2017 · Buy on Amazon
"Just as Metzl explains how seemingly pro-white policies are killing whites, Forman explores how black communities reckoned with crime."
Cover of Black Marxism
Black Marxism
Cedric J. Robinson · 1983 · Buy on Amazon
"Black America has been economically devastated by what Robinson calls racial capitalism."
Cover of Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour
Peniel E. Joseph · 2006 · Buy on Amazon
"Joseph chronicles how Black Power organized a response to racial capitalism."
Cover of How We Get Free
How We Get Free
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (ed.) · 2017 · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Well-Read Black Girl
Well-Read Black Girl
Glory Edim (ed.) · 2018 · Buy on Amazon
"Edim's anthology offered a generation of Black women writers naming what reading made possible for them."
Cover of Redefining Realness
Redefining Realness
Janet Mock · 2014 · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Sister Outsider
Sister Outsider
Audre Lorde · 1984 · Buy on Amazon
"Lorde's essays unmoor Christian-household thinking about queerness."

Books from Baldwin & Co.: Ibram X. Kendi & Eddie Glaude Jr. (2026)

Extracted via LLM from auto-captions of Baldwin & Co. (2026-04-13).

Source: www.youtube.com

Cover of Begin Again
Begin Again
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. · 2020 · Buy on Amazon
"People who are right now engaged in campaigns to radically transform systems were inspired by Begin Again."

Books from Penguin Random House: Ibram X. Kendi and Heather McGhee | CHAIN OF IDEAS (2026)

Extracted via LLM from auto-captions of Penguin Random House (2026-03-16).

Source: www.youtube.com

Cover of The Sum of Us
The Sum of Us
Heather McGhee · 2021 · Buy on Amazon
"I don't know if I would have been able to write this book without your work."

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