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Important works that examine the effects globalization and neoliberalism with an eye on gender and other vectors of identity such as race, class/caste, sexuality, and nation.
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The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
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The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
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So You Want to Talk About Race
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How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
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Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
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Empire of Resentment: Populism's Toxic Embrace of Nationalism
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Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
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Recovering Racists
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The White Allies Handbook: 4 Weeks to Join the Racial Justice Fight for Black Women
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Lecia Michelle (Goodreads Author)
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The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice
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No Way to Treat a Child: How the Foster Care System, Family Courts, and Racial Activists Are Wrecking Young Lives
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Naomi Schaefer Riley (Goodreads Author)
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When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America
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With Our Own Eyes/Out of Print
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Under the Strain of Color: Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry
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The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World
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Racism in America: A Reader
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Muted Voice : A Challenge to the Body of Christ to Speak Out Against Racism
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Whose Black Politics?
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Andra Gillespie (Editor)
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How to Be an Antiracist
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Ibram X. Kendi (Goodreads Author)
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
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How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
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Good White Racist?: Confronting Your Role in Racial Injustice
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Kerry Connelly (Goodreads Author)
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Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
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Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore: Franz Boas and John Alden Mason in Porto Rico
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Race, Language, and Culture
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Superior: The Return of Race Science
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Angela Saini (Goodreads Author)
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The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family
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Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race
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Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes (Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History, and the Contemporary)
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Fast Lives: Women Who Use Crack Cocaine
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Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls
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Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy
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