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12 Years a Slave (Movie Tie-In) (Penguin Classics)
Solomon Northup - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The official movie tie-in edition to the winner of the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyongo, and directed by Steve McQueen New York Times bestseller"I could not believe that I had never heard of this book. It felt as important... |
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All American Boys
Jason Reynolds - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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In an unforgettable new novel from award-winning authors Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely, two teens - one black, one white - grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by racial tension.A... |
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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the YearLONGLISTED 2015 - International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face... |
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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ONE OF TIME'S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURYIn the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black... |
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Becoming
Michelle Obama - Crown Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of Americathe first African American to serve in that roleshe helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House... |
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Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review * The Washington Post * People * Entertainment Weekly * Vogue * Los Angeles Times * Chicago Tribune * Newsday * Vulture * Library... |
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Black Like Me
John Howard Griffin
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The author tells of his experiences after he darkened his skin and traveled through the South in order to find out how it feels to be black. |
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The Blacker the Berry
Joyce Carol Thomas - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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We are color struck The way an artist strikesHis canvas with his brush of many huesLook closely at these mirrorsthese palettes of skinEach color is richin its own rightBlack is dazzling and distinctive, like toasted wheat berry bread snowberries in the fall rich, red cranberries and the bronzed... |
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Citizen: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback
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* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *ONE... |
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Best Books of 2017 Long-listed for the National Book Award "Rothstein has presented what I consider to be the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation." -- William... |
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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
James McBride - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, and Kill 'Em and Leave, a James Brown biography. Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity,... |
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Dear Martin
Nic Stone - Ember
Format: Paperback
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"Powerful, wrenching." -JOHN GREEN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down"Raw and gripping." -JASON REYNOLDS, New York Times bestselling coauthor of All American Boys"A must-read!" -ANGIE THOMAS, #1 New... |
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama - Crown; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voices in American politics, Barack Obama published this lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. Dreams... |
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
Jesmyn Ward - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race - collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation - are "thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful. The Fire This Time is vivid proof that... |
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The Hate U Give
A C THOMAS - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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8 starred reviews William C. Morris Award Winner National Book Award Longlist Printz Honor Book Coretta Scott King Honor Book #1 New York Times Bestseller!"Absolutely riveting!" - Jason Reynolds"Stunning." - John Green"This story is necessary. This story... |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou - Random House; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover
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Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make... |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot - Large Print Press; Lrg edition
Format: Large Print]
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This title is an international bestseller. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer whose cancer cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first 'immortal' human tissue... |
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph... |
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Paperback
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A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice - from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice... |
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
JAMES JR FORMAN - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Paperback
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"Locking Up Our Own should be read by everybody who cares about race and justice in America." -- Van JonesIn recent years, America's criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing... |
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Race Matters
Cornel West
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With a new introduction, the groundbreaking classic Race Matters affirms its position as the bestselling, most influential, and most original articulation of the urgent issues in America's ongoing racial debate.Cornel West is at the forefront of thinking about race. |
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde - Crossing Press
Format: Paperback(Reprint)
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Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsidercelebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class,... |
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So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling... |
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X Kendi - Nation Books
Format: Print book
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Some Americans cling desperately to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society, that the election of the first Black president spelled the doom of racism. In fact, racist thought is alive and well in America - more sophisticated and more insidious than ever.And as award-winning... |
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in AmericaThis 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. The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep... |
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind.The abolition of slavery... |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston - Harper; 1st HarperCollins hardcover ed edition
Format: Hardcover
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“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth... |
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Things Fall Apart (Everyman's Library)
Chinua Achebe - Everyman's Library; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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[This book is] a simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger ... Uniquely ... African, at the same time it reveals [the author's] ... awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.-Back cover. |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
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"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Throug |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery a |
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Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
GLORY EDIM - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature.Remember that moment when you first encountered a character in a book who seemed to be written just for you?... |
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Robin J DiAngelo - Beacon Press
Format: Paperback
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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. In this "vital, necessary, and beautiful book" (Michael Eric Dyson) , antiracist... |
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Carol Anderson - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as "black rage," historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, "white... |
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Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
David Zucchino - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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By 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina, was a shining example of a mixed-race community -- a bustling port city with a thriving African American middle class and a government made up of Republicans and Populists, including black aldermen, police officers, and magistrates. But across the state... |
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prizendashwinning author Isabel Wilkerson 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. From... |
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