Books about racial discrimination become best-sellers as US protests grow

Children's books, such as the 'We're Different, We're The Same' from the Sesame Street stable, have been selling fast in the United States. Photo: Handout

From White Fragility to The New Jim Crow, literature about the history of racial discrimination in the United States is selling out as white Americans seek to educate themselves as nationwide protests grow over the killing of unarmed black people.

As the death of George Floyd, who was pinned under the knee of a white police officer in Minneapolis, has prompted more than a week of street protests throughout the states, Americans at home are turning to books, movies and television shows that lay bare decades of discrimination.