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Diverse Non-Fiction for Adults and Teens

Reading widely and from other viewpoints helps us enrich our lives and become more compassionate, intelligent humans. In the lists below you can discover a few of our favourite reading suggestions that we think can help expand our horizons, non-fiction edition!

County of Brant Public Library

34 items

  • Book, 2020Minnneapolis, MN : Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2020. — J 305.8 Jew
  • Disorientation

    Being Black in the World

    Williams, Ian, 1979-
    Book, 2021Toronto : Random House Canada, 2021. — 305.896 Wil
  • Me and White Supremacy

    Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

    Saad, Layla F.
    Book, 2020Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2020] — 305.809 Saa
  • White Rage

    the Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

    Anderson, Carol (Carol Elaine)
    Book, 2016New York : Bloomsbury, 2016. — 305.800973 And
  • White Fragility

    Why It's So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism

    DiAngelo, Robin, 1956-
    Book, 2018Boston : Beacon Press, [2018] — 305.8 DiA
  • Book, 2020New York : The Dial Press, [2020] — 306.7663092 Doy
  • Stamped From the Beginning

    the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

    Kendi, Ibram X.
    Book, 2016New York, NY : Nation Books, [2016] — 305.800973 Ken
  • Stamped

    Racism, Antiracism, and You

    Kendi, Ibram X.
    Book, 2020New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — TEEN 305.800973 Ken
  • Solitary

    Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement : My Story of Transformation and Hope

    Woodfox, Albert
    Book, 2019Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollins Publishers, [2019] — 322.42092 Woo
  • The Skin We're in

    a Year of Black Resistance and Power

    Cole, Desmond, 1982-
    Book, 2020[Toronto] : Doubleday Canada, [2020] — 305.896071 Col
  • Seven Fallen Feathers

    Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

    Talaga, Tanya
    Book, 2017[Toronto] : Anansi, 2017. — 305.897071312 Tal
  • Policing Black Lives

    State Violence in Canada From Slavery to the Present

    Maynard, Robyn, 1987-
    Book, 2017Black Point, Nova Scotia : Fernwood Publishing, [2017] — 305.896071 May
  • Book, 2018Madeira Park, British Columbia : Douglas & McIntyre, 2018. — 305.897323071231092 McLeo
  • Just Mercy

    a Story of Justice and Redemption

    Stevenson, Bryan
    Book, 2014New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2014] — 353.48092 Steve