Following is a list of books that we recommend to people invested in anti-racism work and their own racial literacy education. All of these books are available in our Color-Brave Lending Library. We also have an extensive library of children's books. Come check us out and get your Fit Oshkosh library card.

For an enhanced experience, we do recommend that these readings be accompanied by guided conversations with our expert facilitators whenever possible. Please contact us at colorbrave@fitoshkoshinc.org or (920) 267-8687.
Adult
Nonfiction
  • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Brown)
  • A People's History of the United States (Zinn)
  • White Folks (Lensmire)
  • Madison Park (Motely)
  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting in the Cafeteria (Tatum)
  • Between the World and Me (Coates)
  • Waking up White (Irving)
  • White Like Me (Wise)
  • The New Jim Crow (Alexander)
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Skloot)
  • Deep Diversity Overcoming Us Versus Them (Choudhury)
  • Everyday White People Confront Racial & Social Injustice (Moore and Penick-Parks)
Memoirs
  • The Late Homecomer (Yang)
  • Born a Crime (Noah)
  • Becoming (Obama)
Poetry
  • Poems (Angelou)
  • Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton (Clifton)
  • A Good Cry (Giovanni)
Movies
  • The Affair
  • Race
  • Hidden Figures
  • Vel Phillips: Dream Big Dreams
  • Malcolm X
  • I Am Not Your Negro
Youth
Picture Books (Age 0-5)
  • Snowy Day (Keats)
  • Mama, Do You Love Me? (Joose)
  • Papa, Do You Love Me? (Joose)
  • Jubari Jumps (Cornwall)
  • Dr. Dyslexia Dude! (Robinson)
 Young Adult
  • ​Copper Sun (Draper)
Ages 6-12
  • Dave the Potter (Hill)
  • We Were Here (de la Pena)
  • A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Lewis (de la Pena)
  • Stella by Starlight (Draper)
  • The Buried Bones Mystery (Draper)
  • Blended (Draper)
  • Mama's Nightingale (Danicat)
  • Of Thee I Sing (Obama)

Questions? Fit Oshkosh Can Help.

email
colorbrave@fitoshkoshinc.org
address
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Suite 310
Oshkosh, WI 54901
phone
920-267-8687