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1 - South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Imani Perry - Ecco

An essential journey through the American South - and the way it defines American identity - from one our most extraordinary writers on race and culture at work today We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there, who have never even been there, can rattle off a list...
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2 - All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Tiya Miles - Random House

In a display case in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture sits a rough cotton bag, called Ashley's Sack, embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love, passed down through generations. In 1850s...
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3 - The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

Les Payne - Liveright

An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Beginning in 1990 on a quest that would consume him for the rest of his life, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Les Payne...
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4 - The Yellow House

Sarah M. Broom - Grove Press

In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant -- the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed,...
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Sarah H. Broom

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5 - The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

Jeffrey C Stewart - Oxford University Press, USA

A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro -- the creative African Americans whose art, literature,...
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6 - The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

MASHA GESSEN - Riverhead Books

WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONThe essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most...
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7 - Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X Kendi - Nation Books

WINNER OF THE 2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IN RACE AND CIVIL RIGHTSFINALIST FOR THE 2016 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTIONTHE MOST AMBITIOUS BOOK OF 2016 - The Washington PostA BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2016A WASHINGTON...
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8 - Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates - Spiegel & Grau

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER | NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER | PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST | NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST | NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review * O: The Oprah Magazine * The Washington...
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9 - Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

Evan Osnos - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; F First Edition edition

Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalistWinner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction.An Economist Best Book of 2014.A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformationFrom abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation...
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10 - The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

George Packer - Farrar, Straus and Giroux

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKAN NPR BEST BOOKSelected by New York Times critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite BookA Washington Post Best Political BookA New Republic Best BookA riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest...
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