A Note About Online Resources
While the Godine Library's physical collections are particularly strong, we also have valuable digital collections that sometimes get overlooked.
This page includes a small selection of our ebooks related to racism and the black experience. Please note that some of these books have single user licenses, meaning only one person can use the book at a time. The reason for this is that publishers are not making multi-user licenses available to libraries. Unfortunately this is the case for some of the most popular titles like How to be an Antiracist and White Fragility. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Please get in touch if
- you need help finding a book not listed here.
- you'd like us to purchase a book to add to our collection
- or if you have any technical difficulties using our online resources.
You can find us at library@massart.edu.
Ebooks on the History of Racism and Systemic Racism
An African American and Latinx history of the United States by Call Number: ebookISBN: 0807013900Publication Date: 2018
Algorithms of Oppression: how search engines reinforce racism by Call Number: ebookISBN: 1479837245Publication Date: 2018
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the making of modern America by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780300235623Publication Date: 2018
Final Freedom: the Civil War, the abolition of slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment by Call Number: ebookISBN: 0511040520Publication Date: 2001
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: the Supreme Court and the struggle for racial equality by Call Number: ebookISBN: 0195351673Publication Date: 2004
John Brown Still Lives!: America's long reckoning with violence, equality, & change by Call Number: ebookISBN: 0807869279Publication Date: 2011
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Call Number: ebookISBN: 1620971941Publication Date: 2010
The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: a transatlantic story of antiracial protest by Call Number: ebookISBN: 0520959981Publication Date: 2014
The Promises of Liberty: the history and contemporary relevance of the Thirteenth Amendment by Call Number: ebookISBN: 0231520131Publication Date: 2010
The Punitive Turn: new approaches to race and incarceration by Call Number: ebookISBN: 0813935210Publication Date: 2013
The Thunder of Angels: the Montgomery bus boycott and the people who broke the back of Jim Crow by Call Number: ebookISBN: 1556526415Publication Date: 2006
Tradition and the Black Atlantic: critical theory in the African diaspora by Call Number: ebookISBN: 0465014100Publication Date: 2010
Where Credit Is Due: bringing equity to credit and housing after the market meltdown by Call Number: ebookISBN: 0761856072Publication Date: 2013
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Call Number: ebookISBN: 0465003966Publication Date: 2003
Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: essays on race and sexuality by Call Number: ebookISBN: 0814756859Publication Date: 2005
I Am Not Your Negro
Ava Duvernay's 13th
Ebooks on Activism, Allyship, and Antiracism
Antiracist school leadership : toward equity in education for America's students by Call Number: ebookISBN: 1623962234Publication Date: 2013
Beyond the White Negro: empathy and anti-racist reading by Call Number: ebookISBN: 0252096312Publication Date: 2014
Changing Minds, If Not Hearts: political remedies for racial conflict by Call Number: ebookISBN: 0812208463Publication Date: 2013
Good White People: the problem with middle-class white anti-racism by Call Number: ebookISBN: 1438451709Publication Date: 2014
The Next American Revolution: sustainable activism for the twenty-first century by Call Number: ebookISBN: 0520953398Publication Date: 2012
Race and Social Change: a quest, a study, a call to action by Call Number: ebookISBN: 1119359430Publication Date: 2017
Speaking Treason Fluently: anti-racist reflections from an angry white male by Call Number: ebookISBN: 1593763042Publication Date: 2009
Teaching about race and racism in the college classroom: notes from a white professor by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781949199253Publication Date: 2019
White Fragility: why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism by ISBN: 0807047414Publication Date: 2018
Find Fiction and Popular Nonfiction on Overdrive
To find fiction and popular non-fiction online, take a look at Overdrive, which we subscribe to via the SAILS library network.
You will find titles like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Amerikanah, Colsone Whitehead’s Underground Railroad, Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.
Ebooks on Black Critical Thought
The American Evasion of Philosophy: a genealogy of pragmatism by Call Number: ebookISBN: 0299119637Publication Date: 1989- Tradition and the Black Atlantic: critical theory in the African diaspora by Call Number: ebookISBN: 0465014100Publication Date: 2010
Essays on Art, Race, Politics, and World Affairs by Call Number: ebookISBN: 0826263836Publication Date: 2002
