The current discussions about empathy and learning more about the BIPOC (and other) experiences and supporting creators who are BIPOC, LGBTQ+, or otherwise marginalized, has resulted in a wave of amazing book/media recommendations, especially about or relevant to anti-Black racism. Unfortunately, especially in the current climate (global pandemic etc), many of us cannot afford to buy books, which can be very expensive.
I wanted to remind everyone with a Toronto Library Card that many of these books are available as e-books or audiobooks, for free. You don't need a special device; there are reader apps for smartphones, tablets, and computers.
If you didn't have a library card when everything shut down, you're NOT out of luck. If you live in Toronto and have a phone number which can receive text messages with the area code 647, 416, or 437, you can get temporary (to Sept 1) access to Overdrive (TPL's main ebook and audiobook source), and instructions are here: https://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/digital-services/2020/04/digital-library-card-tpl2020.html
Just as examples, the following ebooks from the following recommendation lists are available on Overdrive from TPL (some also have an audiobook available):
From Ibram X. Kendi, "An Antiracist Reading List", NYT, 29 May 2020 (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/books/review/antiracist-reading-list-ibram-x-kendi.html):
- FATAL INVENTION: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century By Dorothy Roberts (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3813543&R=3813543)
- THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD By Zora Neale Hurston (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM2809125&R=2809125)
- TPL doesn't have an ebook of THE NEGRO ARTIST AND THE RACIAL MOUNTAIN, but has other works by Langston Hughes (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/search.jsp?N=37910+4294911070&Ntt=Langston+Hughes)
- THE BLUEST EYE By Toni Morrison (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM2808789&R=2808789)
- THE BLACKER THE BERRY By Wallace Thurman (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3567443&R=3567443)
- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X By Malcolm X and Alex Haley (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3338480&R=3338480)
- DYING OF WHITENESS: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland By Jonathan M. Metzl (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3800645&R=3800645)
- LOCKING UP OUR OWN: Crime and Punishment in Black America By James Forman Jr. (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3538725&R=3538725)
- HOW WE GET FREE: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3695583&R=3695583)
- WELL-READ BLACK GIRL: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves Edited by Glory Edim (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3743072&R=3743072)
- REDEFINING REALNESS: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3198257&R=3198257)
- SISTER OUTSIDER: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3411491&R=3411491)
From Suyin Haynes, "Several Antiracist Books Are Selling Out. Here's What Else Black Booksellers and Publishers Say You Should Read", TIME Magazine, 2 June 2020 (https://time.com/5846732/books-to-read-about-anti-racism/):
- Conversations in Black: On Politics, Power and Leadership, Ed Gordon (2020) (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3909791&R=3909791)
- 55, Underemployed and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Retirement Life, Elizabeth White (2019) (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3762139&R=3762139)
- An African American and Latinx History of the United States, Paul Ortiz (2018) (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3671920&R=3671920)
- Chokehold: Policing Black Men, Paul Butler (2017) (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3579518&R=3579518)
- What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays, Damon Young (2019) (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3788932&R=3788932)
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015) (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3326922&R=3326922)
- The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates (2019) (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3846121&R=3846121)
- (Children/Youth) Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi (2020) (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3909183&R=3909183)
- (Children/Youth) Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson (2014) (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3175255&R=3175255)
And from TPL's own "Black Lives Matter: A Booklist" (https://account.torontopubliclibrary.ca/shared/blacklivesmatter-a-booklist/7a30VmdcoaVzXnHz5QRMyCEAsh7MfWLIhaF08xO8JLFLNB1xuF):
- The skin we're in : A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=3894274&Entt=RDM3894274)
- Until we are free : Reflections on Black Lives Matter Canada Edited by Rodney Diverlus et al. (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=3920213&Entt=RDM3920213)
- Me and white supremacy : combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor by Layla F Saad (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=3894256&Entt=RDM3894256)
- Breathe : a letter to my sons by Imani Perry (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=3844485&Entt=RDM3844485)
- How to be an antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=3835356&Entt=RDM3835356)
- How we fight for our lives : a memoir by Saeed Jones (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=3849512&Entt=RDM3849512)
- I'm still here : Black dignity in a world made for whiteness by Austin Channing Brown (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=3713867&Entt=RDM3713867)
- I've been meaning to tell you : a letter to my daughter by David Chariandy (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=3691813&Entt=RDM3691813)
- So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=3650400&Entt=RDM3650400)
- White fragility : why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin J. DiAngelo (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=3704886&Entt=RDM3704886)
- Policing Black lives : state violence in Canada from slavery to the present by Robyn Maynard (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=3649259&Entt=RDM3649259)
- We were eight years in power : an American tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=3590493&Entt=RDM3590493)
- Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race by Reni Eddo-Lodge (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=3656927&Entt=RDM3656927)
- Viola Desmond's Canada : a history of blacks and racial segregation in the promised land by Graham Reynolds (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=3649193&Entt=RDM3649193)
- The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children : the hurt, the hope, and the healing by Wanda Lauren Taylor (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=3452387&Entt=RDM3452387)
- (Children/Youth) We are not yet equal : understanding our racial divide by Carol Anderson (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=3781907&Entt=RDM3781907)
- (Children/Youth) Coping with racial profiling by Del Sandeen (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=3872198&Entt=RDM3872198)
- (Children/Youth) What do I do when people I know are racist? by Caitie McAneney (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=3897190&Entt=RDM3897190)
- (Children/Youth) # blacklivesmatter : Protesting Racism by Rachael L. Thomas (https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=3885865&Entt=RDM3885865)
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