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How to Be an Antiracist
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Ibram X. Kendi (Goodreads Author)
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In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
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So You Want to Talk About Race
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Between the World and Me
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Why We Can't Wait
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The Souls of Black Folk (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books)
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Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
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Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership
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Ed Gordon (Narrator)
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One Person, No Vote: How All Voters Are Not Treated Equally
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
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Long Walk to Freedom
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
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How We Fight White Supremacy
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
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The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
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How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
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Soar: How Boys Learn, Succeed, and Develop Character
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A Dream Too Big: The Story of an Improbable Journey from Compton to Oxford
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Caylin Louis Moore (Goodreads Author)
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The Nickel Boys
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Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)
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The Underground Railroad
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Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)
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Homegoing
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Yaa Gyasi (Goodreads Author)
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
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Mikki Kendall (Goodreads Author)
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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
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Danielle L. McGuire (Goodreads Author)
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You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
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The Vanishing Half
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Brit Bennett (Goodreads Author)
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
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Angie Thomas (Goodreads Author)
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Riot Baby
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Lot
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Long Way Down
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
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Jesmyn Ward (Goodreads Author)
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An American Marriage
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Tayari Jones (Goodreads Author)
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The Poet X
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Elizabeth Acevedo (Goodreads Author)
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The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters
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Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina
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Americanah
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The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
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N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)
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How Long 'til Black Future Month?
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N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)
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In West Mills
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Red at the Bone
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Jacqueline Woodson (Goodreads Author)
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Slay
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Brittney Morris (Goodreads Author)
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Color Me In
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Natasha Diaz (Goodreads Author)
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How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
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Natalia Molina (Goodreads Author)
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The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography
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Miriam Pawel (Goodreads Author)
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Children of the Land
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How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
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Julia Alvarez (Goodreads Author)
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Ordinary Girls
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Jaquira Díaz (Goodreads Author)
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American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures
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America Ferrera (Contributor)
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Juliet Takes a Breath
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The Making of Asian America: A History
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Erika Lee (Goodreads Author)
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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
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Interior Chinatown
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Charles Yu (Goodreads Author)
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Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
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Ali Wong (Goodreads Author)
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The Magical Language of Others
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E.J. Koh (Goodreads Author)
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How Much of These Hills Is Gold
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C Pam Zhang (Goodreads Author)
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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They Called Us Enemy
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Butterfly Yellow
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Thanhhà Lại (Goodreads Author)
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The Tenth Muse
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Catherine Chung (Goodreads Author)
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Malaya: Essays on Freedom
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Cinelle Barnes (Goodreads Author)
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A Place for Us
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Fatima Farheen Mirza (Goodreads Author)
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Milk and honey
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Rupi Kaur (Goodreads Author)
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America's Fight for Religious Freedom
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Three Ways to Disappear
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Katy Yocom (Goodreads Author)
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My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
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Jennine Capó Crucet (Goodreads Author)
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Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
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Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls
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Know My Name
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
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The Rules Do Not Apply
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Make Your Moment: The Savvy Woman's Communication Playbook For Getting The Success You Want
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Dion Lim (Goodreads Author)
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A Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug: The Working Woman's Guide to Overthrowing the Patriarchy
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Sarah Lacy (Goodreads Author)
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You Don't Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism
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See Jane Win: The Inspiring Story of the Women Changing American Politics
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Caitlin Moscatello (Goodreads Author)
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Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America
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Jacquelyn Dowd Hall (Goodreads Author)
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The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed As You Are
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Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
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Reframing Change: How to Deal with Workplace Dynamics, Influence Others, and Bring People Together to Initiate Positive Change
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A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
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Truth Has a Power of Its Own: Conversations about A People's History
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Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
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David Treuer (Goodreads Author)
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God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England
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Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
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The Words of My Father
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A Field Guide to the Jewish People: Who They Are, Where They Come From, What to Feed Them…and Much More. Maybe Too Much More
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Dave Barry (Goodreads Author)
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The Light Years
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Chris Rush (Goodreads Author)
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Stay and Fight
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