In May 2020, you told Jane, via Instagram, non-fiction books to read to be anti-racist and to make us all better people, and she made it into an Ideal Bookshelf.
AND, click here to download a checklist of those books, so you can read them all.
We're donating profits on this mug to the Equal Justice Initiative. Founded in 1989 by Bryan Stevenson (author of Just Mercy), the EJI "is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society." Please visit their website to learn more about them.
This sturdy 11 ounce (i.e., normal size) or 15 ounce (fits more coffee!) white ceramic mug is both microwave and dishwasher safe. There are books all the way around it, so it works beautifully for both coffee and tea drinkers, and for both righties and lefties.
PLEASE NOTE: This is a special edition mug and is printed on demand, and due to COVID-19 delays is currently taking well over a week to ship (instead of the normal 1-2 days), and comes in a plain cardboard box, not our normal red and white branded box.
LIST OF BOOKS
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Blindspot by Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony G. Greenwald
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? by Moustafa Bayoumi
I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
Good Talk by Mira Jacob
This Book Is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell & Aurélia Durand
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
When They Call You A Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele
Mindful of Race by Ruth King
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Tatum
America’s Original Sin by Jim Wallis
The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
