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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Ibram X. Kendi (Goodreads Author)
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Between the World and Me
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Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
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Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
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Homegoing
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Yaa Gyasi (Goodreads Author)
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Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
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The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
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Thenmozhi Soundararajan (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 399 ratings
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Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
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Ibram X Kendi, We Need To Talk: About Your 'Antiracist' Book
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The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
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Antony Loewenstein (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 2,469 ratings
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So You Want to Talk About Race
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The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
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On Palestine
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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
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How to Be an Antiracist
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Ibram X. Kendi (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 118,677 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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Isabel Wilkerson (Goodreads Author)
4.48 avg rating — 114,495 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
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Killing Rage: Ending Racism
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Becoming
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Michelle Obama (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 1,171,708 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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Matthew Desmond (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 111,265 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses
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Lawrence C. Ross (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 253 ratings
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The Bluest Eye
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
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Angie Thomas (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 994,297 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Native Son
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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The Water Dancer
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Queenie
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Candice Carty-Williams (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 155,546 ratings
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Giovanni’s Room
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
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Real Life
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Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
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No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies
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E. Patrick Johnson (Editor)
4.41 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Since I Laid My Burden Down
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The Other Side of Paradise
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No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
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Darnell L. Moore (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 2,773 ratings
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The Summer We Got Free
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Mia McKenzie (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 1,497 ratings
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How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Editor)
4.47 avg rating — 4,641 ratings
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
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Bad Feminist
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Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 118,155 ratings
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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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Women, Race & Class
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Assata: An Autobiography
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Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
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Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions
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Tiffany Jana (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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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
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Student Activism, Politics, and Campus Climate in Higher Education
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Demetri L. Morgan (Editor)
4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
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Just Mercy
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