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The following resources are recommended by the High Point University Diversity Committee to facilitate the work of becoming actively anti-racist, and to help frame discussion about race inside and outside the classroom. HPU Libraries provides electronic or physical access to all the materials listed below.
Books & eBooks
All of the following are available through HPU Libraries. If you are prompted to login when viewing an ebook, use your HPU username and password (the same password as for your email). You’ll see the login screen when opening library content from off campus.
- HomeGrown Anti-Racism Reading List
This reading list is a curated selection of eBook titles available in the NC LIVE HomeGrown Collection. The collection includes titles from North Carolina publishers. No Holds. No Checkout Limits. No Wait Lists. HomeGrown titles are available in perpetuity with unlimited, simultaneous access.
How to Be an Antiracist by Call Number: Smith Library, 2nd Floor Readerspace: 305.800973 K34ho 2019ISBN: 9780525509288Publication Date: 2019
Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781576759844Publication Date: 2009
White Fragility: Why it's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780807047415Publication Date: 2018
Raising Our Hands: How White Women Can Stop Avoiding Hard Conversations, Start Accepting Responsibility, and Find Our Place on the New Frontlines by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781950665075Publication Date: 2020
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Call Number: Smith Library, 3rd Floor: 364.973089 AL2ne 2012ISBN: 9781595588197Publication Date: 2012
Between the World and Me by Call Number: Smith Library, 3rd Floor: 305.896073 C63be 2015rISBN: 9780812993547Publication Date: 2015
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780415924849Publication Date: 1999
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Call Number: Smith Library, 3rd Floor: 814.54 An4i 1997ISBN: 9780553380019Publication Date: 1997
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Call Number: Smith Library, 3rd Floor: 323.41 St5ju 2014ISBN: 9780812994520Publication Date: 2014
The Bluest Eye by Call Number: Smith Library, 3rd Floor: 813.54 M83bL 1994ISBN: 9780452273054Publication Date: 1994
The Fire Next Time by Call Number: Smith Library, 3rd Floor: 305.896073 B19fi 1963ISBN: 9780613186391Publication Date: 1963
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781501126345Publication Date: 2016
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Call Number: Smith Library, 3rd Floor: 973.0496073 W65wa 2010ISBN: 9780679444329Publication Date: 2010
All American Boys by Call Number: Wanek Learning Commons, 813.62 R332aL 2015ISBN: 9781481463331Publication Date: 2015
Topic Pages via HPU Libraries
The following are a few topic sub-collections within select library databases.
Films & Documentaries
The following are available either as streaming film or as a physical DVD from the media collection on Smith Library's First Floor.
- Race & Class Studies Documentaries via Kanopy
Roughly 30 documentaries on topics such as racism, representation, and African American Studies via the library's Kanopy database.
- If Beale Street Could Talk
Smith Library, First Floor, Drama AV 791.4372 If11tw 2019 - Fruitvale Station
Smith Library First Floor, Drama, AV 791.4372 F943an 2014 - King in the Wilderness
Streaming video via Films on Demand - The Hate U Give
Smith Library, 1st Floor, Drama AV 791.4372 H282tw 2019 - I Am Not Your Negro
Streaming film via Kanopy. - Selma
Smith Library, 1st Floor, Drama AV 791.4372 Se4911pa 2015 - The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Streaming video via Films on Demand.
