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• How to Be An Antiracist

  Kendi, Ibram X.,

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  Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step:…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Me and White Supremacy

  Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

  Saad, Layla F.

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  A break down of how white supremacy impacts the daily lives of People of Color, with steps to check ones own privilege, and work toward an antiracist future.

• Tears We Cannot Stop

  a Sermon to White America

  Dyson, Michael Eric,

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  A call for change in the United States argues that racial progress can only be achieved after facing difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, and discounted.

• Stamped From the Beginning

  the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

  Kendi, Ibram X.,

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  A comprehensive history of anti-black racism focuses on the lives of five major players in American history, including Cotton Mather and Thomas Jefferson, and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• White Rage

  the Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

  Anderson, Carol (Carol Elaine)

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  From the end of the Civil War to the tumultuous issues in America today, an acclaimed historian reframes the conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.

• Girl in Black and White

  the Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement

  Morgan-Owens, Jessie,

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  The riveting, little-known story of Mary Mildred Williams―a slave girl who looked “white”―whose photograph transformed the abolitionist movement.

• I'm Still Here

  Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

  Brown, Austin Channing,

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  Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age 7, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. Growing up in majority-white schools,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Under the Affluence

  Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America

  Wise, Tim, 1968-

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  In his bracing new book, Under the Affluence, Wise brilliantly engages the roots and ramifications of radical inequality in our nation, carefully detailing the heartless war against the poor and the swooning addiction to the rich that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing

  the Incarceration of African American Women From Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland

  Hill, DaMaris B.,

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  DaMaris B. Hill shines a light on the plight of incarcerated black American women . . . It’s a difficult, powerful subject, and a history far too few Americans are familiar with; Hill tells these stories with passion and strength,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• So You Want to Talk About Race

  Oluo, Ijeoma,

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  Straight talk to blacks and whites about the realities of racism. A clear and candid contribution to an essential conversation.

• Race After Technology

  Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

  Benjamin, Ruha,

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  From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.

• Race After Technology

  Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

  Benjamin, Ruha,

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  From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.

• White Fragility

  Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

  DiAngelo, Robin, 1956,

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  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.

• Breathe

  a Letter to My Sons

  Perry, Imani, 1972-

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  Imani Perry issues an unflinching challenge to society to see Black children as deserving of humanity. She admits fear and frustration for her African American sons in a society that is increasingly racist and at times seems irredeemable.

• What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker

  a Memoir in Essays

  Young, Damon, 1978-

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  From one of our most respected cultural observers, What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker is a hilarious and honest debut that is both a celebration of the idiosyncrasies and distinctions of blackness and a critique of white supremacy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Why I?m No Longer Talking to White People About Race : The Sunday Times Bestseller

  Eddo-Lodge, Reni

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  A collection of essays delving into topics like structural racism, class and feminism, beginning with a crash course in feminism.

• Motherhood So White

  a Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America

  Austin, Nefertiti,

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  "In this timely, insightful memoir, novelist Austin examines adoption and child-rearing as a single black woman confronting gender and racial bias...juxtaposing tender mother-child moments with the dangers facing African-American boys,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Motherhood So White : A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America

  Austin, Nefertiti

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• Angela Davis puts the case for abolition of prisons. Factual, eye opening quick read.

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• A collection of essays, interviews and speeches world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.

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