The list below includes memoirs, historical works, and essays about race-related issues from a multi-generational range or writers.
- Training School for Negro Girls, Camille Acker
- Parable of the Brown Girl, Khristi Lauren Adams
- The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
- Raising Our Hands: Can Stop Avoiding Hard Conversations, Start Accepting Responsibility, and Find Our Place on the New Frontlines, Jenna Arnold
- A Black Women’s History of the United States, Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Austin Channing Brown
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins
- The Cross and the Lynching Tree, James H. Cone
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, Dr. Brittney Cooper
- Thick: And Other Essays, Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture, Emma Dabiri
- Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin
- The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice, Anthony Ray Hamilton
- A Space for Race: Decoding Racism, Multiculturalism, and Post-Colonialism in the Quest for Belonging in Canada and Beyond, Kathy Hogarth and Wendy Fletcher-Marsh
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
- This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work, Tiffany Jewell
- How To Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi
- Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out, Ruth King
- Heavy: An American Memoir, Kiese Laymon
- Race and Place: How Urban Geography Shapes the Journey to Reconciliation, David P. Leong
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, James W. Loewen
- Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Audre Lorde
- The Shadow King, Maaza Mengiste
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Cherríe Moraga
- The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
- So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
- An African-American and Latinx History of the US, Paul Ortiz
- Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor, Layla F. Saad
- Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, Beverly Daniel Tatum
- The Color of Compromise, Jemar Tisby
- The End of Policing, Alex S. Vitale
- The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After, Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson
