The Carnegie Library: Book Recommendations
The Carnegie Library
The following book recommendations are from The CI community of board members, staff, partners, and other allies doing the work at the intersection of hockey and social justice.
A Fly in a Pail of Milk: The Herb Carnegie Story
by Herb Carnegie with Bernice Carnegie
ISBN-10
1770414959
Publisher, ECW Press
Recommended by: Bryant McBride and Bernice Carnegie, co-founders of the Carnegie Initiative.
Suggested Reads from a variety of those in The CI Community
Bryant McBride’s Important Social Justice “Must Reads”
Books by The CI Board Members & Advisors
Black Girl Hockey Club’s Book Club
HCTA Recipient Alexandria Briggs-Blake
Suggested Reads from a variety of those in The CI Community
Indian Horse
by Richard Wagamese
ISBN-10
1571311300
Publisher, Milkweed Editions
Recommended by: Marian Jacko, Hockey Canada Board Member and former Little Native Hockey League President
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
by Brene Brown
ISBN-10
1592408419
Publisher, Avery
Recommended by: Kendall Boyd-Tyson, Seattle Kraken Senior Vice President Finance and Business Intelligence
Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport That Wasn’t Built for Us
by Alison Mariella Désir.
ISBN-10
059341862X
Publisher, Portfolio
Recommended by: Dr. Courtney Szto, Queen’s University Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology
The Hockey Girls of Kabul
by Zarmina Nekzai
ISBN-13
978-1894813945
Publisher, Wintertickle Press
Recommended by: Zarmina Nekzai, The Hockey Girls of Kabul Founder and winner of the Herbert Carnegie Trailblazer Award
Call Me Indian: From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the NHL’s First Treaty Indigenous Player
Hardcover – May 18, 2021
by Fred Sasakamoose
ISBN-10
0735240019
Publisher, Viking
Recommended by: Eric Hammerstrom, Advisor to The CI
All Roads Home: A Life On and Off the Ice
by Bryan Trottier
ISBN-10
0771084471
Publisher, McClelland & Stewart
Recommended by: Eric Hammerstrom, Advisor to The CI
Bryant McBride’s Important Social Justice “Must Reads”
Bryant McBride is the Co-Chair of The Carnegie Initiative, Founder/CEO of Burst, and the producer of the recent documentary, “Beyond Their Years: The Incredible Legacies of Herb Carnegie and Buck O’Neil.”
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
ISBN-10
0593230256
Publisher, Random House
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
ISBN-10
9780812984965
Publisher, One World
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
by Richard Rothstein
ISBN-10
9781631494536
Publisher, Norton
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander (Author), Cornel West (Introduction)
ISBN-10
1595586431
Publisher, The New Press
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
ISBN-10
0679763880
Publisher, Vintage
How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
ISBN-10
0525509283
Publisher, One World
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
by Heather McGhee
ISBN-10
0525509569
Publisher, One World
The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing (The Social Justice Handbook Series)
by Anneliese A. Singh PhD LPC (Author), Derald Wing Sue Ph.D. (Afterword), Tim Wise (Foreword)
ISBN-10
1684032709
Publisher, New Harbinger Publications
Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
EAN/UPC
9781985038516
Ron MacLean’s Top Ten
Longtime “Hockey Night in Canada” host and The CI Board Member Ron MacLean shares his recommended books. Ron’s note: “‘A Fly in a Pail of Milk’ is our manifesto so that is not on the list.”
1) Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom
By David W. Blight.
Publisher, Simon & Schuster
EAN/UPC
9781416590323
2) Between the World and Me
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Publisher, One World
EAN/UPC
9780812993547
3) The Skin We’re in: Teaching Our Teens to Be Emotionally Strong, Socially Smart, and Spiritually Connected
By Janie Victoria Ward.
Publisher, Free Press
EAN/UPC
9780684859293
4) Shut Out: The Game That Did Not Love Me Black
By Bernie Saunders and Barry Meisel
Publisher, Patrick Crean Editions
ISBN-10
1443465240
5) Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
ISBN-10
9780812984965
Publisher, One World
6) Know My Name: A Memoir
By Chanel Miller
Publisher, Penguin Bookst
EAN/UPC
9780735223721
7) Angela James: The First Superstar of Women’s Hockey (Women Who Rock)
By Tom Bartsiokas and Corey Long
Publisher, Three O’Clock Press
ISBN-10
0986638889
8) Renegades: Born in the USA
By Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen
Publisher, Crown Publishing Group (NY)
EAN/UPC
9780593236314
9) Breaking the Ice: The Black Experience in Professional Hockey
By Cecil Harris
Publisher
Insomniac Pr
ISBN-10
1894663586
10) A Sporting Chance: Achievements of African-Canadian Athletes
By William Humber
Publisher, Natural Heritage
ISBN-10
1896219993
Books by The CI Board Members & Advisors
Life in Two Worlds: A Coach’s Journey from the Reserve to the NHL and Back
by Ted Nolan
ISBN-10
0735244952
Publisher, Viking
One Game at a Time: My Journey from a Small Town to Hockey’s Biggest Stage
by Harnarayan Singh
ISBN-10
0771073895
Publisher, McClelland & Stewart
Sport Matters: Leadership, Power, and the Quest for Respect in Sports
by Kenneth L. Shropshire
ISBN-10
1613630514
Publisher: Wharton School Press
In Black and White: Race and Sports in America
by Kenneth L. Shropshire
ISBN-10
0814780377
What to Do When Things Go Wrong: A Five-Step Guide to Planning for and Surviving the Inevitable―And Coming Out Ahead
by Frank Supovitz | May 9, 2019
ISBN-10
126044158X
Game Misconduct: Hockey’s Toxic Culture and How to Fix It
Hardcover – October 12, 2021
by Evan F. Moore (Author), Jashvina Shah (Author), Renee Hess (Foreword)
ISBN-10
1629379204
More Suggested Reads
HOCKEY’S HIDDEN GODS–The Untold Story of a Paralympic Miracle on Ice
By S. C. Megale
978-1-5381-6664-2 • Hardback
Beartown: A Novel (Beartown Series)
Paperback – February 6, 2018
by Fredrik Backman (Author)
ISBN-10
150116077X
Us Against You: A Novel (Beartown Series)
Paperback – March 5, 2019
by Fredrik Backman (Author)
ISBN-13
978-1501160806
The Winners: A Novel (Beartown Series)
Hardcover – September 27, 2022
by Fredrik Backman (Author)
ISBN-10
1982112794
The Game: 30th Anniversary Edition
Paperback – November 1, 2013
by Ken Dryden
ISBN-10
1600789617
Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925
Authors George Robert Fosty, Darril Fosty
ISBN 0965116875, 9780965116879
Hockey Is for Everybody: Anthony’s Goal
Paperback – October 17, 2022
by Anthony Charles Walsh (Author), Justine Allenette Ross (Illustrator), Paul Nylander (Contributor)
ISBN-13
979-8987089729
Over the Boards: Lessons from the Ice
Hardcover – October 12, 2021
by Hayley Wickenheiser (Author)
ISBN-10
0735240507
Black Girl Hockey Club’s Book Club
The Black Girl Hockey Club (BCHC), founded by The CI Board Member Renee Hess, hosts monthly book clubs. Here are their reading lists.
2022-23 Book Club Wrap-Up
Alexandria Briggs-Blake’s Suggested Books
(Recipient of the inaugural Herbert Carnegie Trailblazer Award)
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race (Revised)
By Beverly Daniel Tatum
ISBN-10
9780465060689
Publisher, Basic Books
A Fly in a Pail of Milk: The Herb Carnegie Story
by Herb Carnegie with Bernice Carnegie
ISBN-10
1770414959
Publisher, ECW Press
Holding Fast to Dreams: Empowering Youth from the Civil Rights Crusade to Stem Achievement
By Freeman A. Hrabowski III
ISBN-10
9780807052440
Publisher, Beacon Press
Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925
By George Fosty
ISBN-10
1551096951
Publisher, Nimbus Pub Ltd
Black Ice: The Val James Story|
By Valmore James with John Gallagher
ISBN-10
1770413634
Publisher, ECW Press
A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete, Volume 1 (1619-1918)
By Arthur Ashe
ISBN-10
1567430066
A Hard Road to Glory, Volume 2 (1919-1945)
ISBN-10
006316227X
A Hard Road to Glory, Volume 3 (1946-1992)
ISBN-13
9780063162327
Publisher, Amistad Press
Breaking the Ice
By K.R. Collins
EAN/UPC
9781950412341
Publisher, Ninestar Press, LLC
Willie: The Game-Changing Story of the Nhl’s First Black Player
By Michael McKinley and Willie O’Ree, Foreword by Jarome Iginla
ISBN-10
0735239746
Publisher, Penguin Books Canada
Hockey Moms: The Heart of the Game
By Theresa Bailey and Terry Marcotte
ISBN-10
1443465763
Publisher, Collins