Digital Library
Welcome to Our New Digital Library
Our new library will let you sort, filter and search for resources in one place. Compiled by CHCANYS staff the library contains tools, materials, reference guides, video recordings and more from a variety of topic areas. From Digital Health and Clinical resources to Policy and Advocacy materials, find everything you need in one convenient database.
Black Feminist Thought
In Black Feminist Thought , Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. Read More »
Race Matters
The fundamental litmus test for American democracy-its economy, government, criminal justice system, education, mass media, and culture-remains: how broad and intense are the arbitrary powers used and deployed against black people. Read More »
Citizen
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Read More »
Between the World and Me
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Read More »
Emergent Strategy
In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. Change is constant. The world, our bodies, and our minds are in a constant state of flux. They are a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Read More »
The Nickel Boys
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Flo Read More »
White Tears/Brown Scars
Called “powerful and provocative" by Dr. Ibram X. Read More »
Stamped from the Beginning
Americans like to insist that we are living in a postracial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Read More »
Me and White Supremacy
The New York Times and USA Today bestseller! Read More »
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
A poetic and powerful memoir about what it means to be a Black woman in America—and the co-founding of a movement that demands justice for all in the land of the free. Read More »
The New Jim Crow
Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly‚ Slate‚ Chronicle of Higher Education‚ Literary Hub, Book Riot‚ and Zora Read More »
So You Want To Talk About Race
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America Read More »