Race & Ethnicity Resources

Bibliotherapy

Self-Help

• The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health by Rheeda Walker

• Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body & Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters

• The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women by Marita Golden

• The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

• You Are More Than Magic: The Black & Brown Girls’ Guide to Finding Your Voice by Minda Harts

• Breathe: A Guided Healing Journal for Black Men by Brennan Allan Steele

• The Pain We Carry by Natalie Y. Gutiérrez, LMFT

• My Grandmother’s Hands by Rasmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP

• Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace by Minda Harts

Memoirs

• Unbound by Tarana Burke

• Migrations of the Heart by Marita Golden

• Miseducated by Brandon P. Fleming

• Cry Like a Man by Jason Wilson

• Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

• All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson (LGBTQIA+ & Black Male)

• You Got Anything Stronger? By Gabrielle Union

• Feeding the Soul by Tabitha Brown

• More than Enough by Elaine Welteroth (ethnic identity & feminist themes)

• My Broken Language by Quiara Alegría Hudes (Hispanic)

• Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jensen (Indigenous)

• A Mind Spread Out On The Ground by Alicia Elliott (Indigenous & Bicultural)

• What We Carry by Mya Shanbhag Lang (Indian Immigrant)

• A Dream Called Home by Reyna Grande (Mexican Immigrant)

• All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung (Adoption & Asian American)

• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (Korean American, bicultural, grief)

• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

• Speak, Okinawa by Elizabeth Miki Brina (bicultural identity)

• Ma and Me by Putsata Reang (Cambodian refugee & queer)

• Not Here by Hieu Minh (Vietnamese-American poetry)

Novels

• The Wide Circumference of Love by Marita Golden (Black Experience, Family, & Alzheimer’s)

• Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes (Black Experience & Police Brutality)

• Open Water by Caleb Zumah Nelson (Black Experience)

• Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes (good for YA)

• There There by Tommy Orange (Indigenous)

• We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride & Jo Piazza

• What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons (Bicultural)

• Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? By Lizzie Damilola Blackburn (Bicultural & Feminist)

• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Vietnamese-American, immigrant, & LGBTQ themes)