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A Black Women's History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY #5) Cover Image

A Black Women's History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY #5) (Hardcover)

$27.95

ISBN: 9780807033555

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Published: Beacon Press - February 4th, 2020

2021 NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction

Honorable Mention for the 2021 Organization of American Historians Darlene Clark Hine Award

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy Cover Image

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy (Paperback)

By Carol Anderson, Dick Durbin (Foreword by)

$18.00

ISBN: 9781635571394

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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - September 17th, 2019

As featured in the documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy

PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award Finalist, Longlisted for the National Book Award
Best Books of the Year--Washington Post, Boston Globe, NPR, Bustle, NYPL

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools Cover Image

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (Paperback)

By Monique Morris, Mankaprr Conteh (Foreword by), Melissa Harris-Perry (Foreword by)

$18.95

ISBN: 9781620973424

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Published: New Press - January 16th, 2018

The powerful (Michelle Alexander) exploration--featured by The Atlantic, Essence, the Washington Post, New York magazine, NPR, and others--of the harsh and harmful experiences confronting Black girls in schools
In a work that Lisa Delpit calls imperative reading, Monique W.

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies Cover Image

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies (Paperback)

By Resmaa Menakem

$17.95

ISBN: 9781942094470

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Published: Central Recovery Press - September 19th, 2017

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER
My Grandmother's Hands will change the direction of the movement for racial justice.— Robin DiAngelo, New York Times bestselling author of White Fragility
In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.

Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)

By Frantz Fanon, Richard Philcox (Translator)

$16.00

ISBN: 9780802143006

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Published: Grove Press - January 1st, 2008

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon's masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers.

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Cover Image

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Paperback)

By David W. Blight

$22.00

ISBN: 9781416590323

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Published: Simon & Schuster - January 7th, 2020

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History**

“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.

As a young man Frederick Douglass

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness Cover Image

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)

By Austin Channing Brown

$25.00

ISBN: 9781524760854

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Published: Convergent Books - May 15th, 2018

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK • From a leading voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female that exposes how white America’s love affair with “diversity” so often falls short of its ideals.

Segregation by Design (Paperback)

By Jessica Trounstine

$24.99

ISBN: 9781108454988

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Published: Cambridge University Press - January 2nd, 2019

Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation.

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (Vintage International) Cover Image

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By Toni Morrison

$16.95

ISBN: 9780525562795

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Published: Vintage - January 14th, 2020

Here is Toni Morrison in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades.

“Profoundly insightful. . . . Speaks to today’s social and political moment as directly as this morning’s headlines.” —NPR

N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law Cover Image

N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law (Paperback)

By Jody David Armour, Abdullah (Introduction by), Krasner (Foreword by)

$18.00

ISBN: 9781940660684

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Published: Los Angeles Review of Books - August 18th, 2020

A MUST-READ FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN UNDERSTANDING AND DISMANTLING MASS INCARCERATION. --Chesa Boudin, District Attorney of San Francisco America's criminal justice system is among the deadliest and most racist in the world and it disproportionately targets Black Americans, who are also disproportionately poor, hungry, houseless, jobless, sick, and poorly educated.

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism Cover Image

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Paperback)

By Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by)

$16.00

ISBN: 9780807047415

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Published: Beacon Press - June 26th, 2018

The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.

How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)

By Ibram X. Kendi

$27.00

ISBN: 9780525509288

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Published: One World - August 13th, 2019

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves.

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning Cover Image

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning (Hardcover)

By Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi

$18.99

ISBN: 9780316453691

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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - March 10th, 2020

The #1 New York Times bestseller and a USAToday bestseller!
A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America

This is NOT a history book.
This is a book about the here and now.
A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.
A book about race.

Are Prisons Obsolete? (Open Media Series) Cover Image

Are Prisons Obsolete? (Open Media Series) (Paperback)

By Angela Y. Davis

$15.95

ISBN: 9781583225813

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Published: Seven Stories Press - August 5th, 2003

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Cover Image

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Paperback)

By Michelle Alexander

$18.99

ISBN: 9781620971932

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Published: New Press - January 7th, 2020

Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate' Chronicle of Higher Education' Literary Hub, Book Riot' and Zora

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Cover Image

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Paperback)

By Ibram X. Kendi

$19.99

ISBN: 9781568585987

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Published: Bold Type Books - August 15th, 2017

The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.

Between the World and Me (Hardcover)

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

$26.00

ISBN: 9780812993547

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Published: One World - July 14th, 2015

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT

So You Want to Talk About Race Cover Image

So You Want to Talk About Race (Paperback)

By Ijeoma Oluo

$16.99

ISBN: 9781580058827

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Published: Seal Press - September 24th, 2019

In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Cover Image

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Paperback)

By Isabel Wilkerson

$17.95

ISBN: 9780679763888

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Published: Vintage - October 4th, 2011

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER

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