This list is as much for me as for anyone else. I have not read most of these books, but they have been recommended to me by people smarter and more informed than me. I have included links for the books to be purchased from Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, because it is our local book store. [These aren’t affiliate links]. These books are in no particular order, but I can assure you that The Color of Law is a great place to start.
**Update**
Order Online (Locally, other than Raleigh):
- Durham: The Regulator Bookshop, Letters Bookshop, Golden Fig Books
- Chapel Hill: Flyleaf Books
The Color of Law — Richard Rothstein
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Segregation by Design — Jessica Trounstine
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Root Shock — Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD
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Race for Profit — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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American Apartheid —Douglass Massey and Nancy Denton
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Evicted — Matthew Desmond
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Sorting out the New South City — Thomas Hanchett
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The Poisoned City — Anna Clark
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Policing the Open Road — Sarah Seo
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The Big Sort — Bill Bishop
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The New Jim Crow — Michelle Alexander
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Black in Place — Brandi Thompson Summers
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How to Kill a City — P.E. Moskowitz
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Color & Character — Pamela Grundy
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How to Be an Antiracist — Ibram X. Kendi
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Capital City — Samuel Stein
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Know Your Price — Andre M. Perry
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To be continued. If you have any books you think I should add to the list, shoot me a note at [email protected]!
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