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• So You Want to Talk About Race

  Oluo, Ijeoma,

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  Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word.…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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  Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.

• "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?"

  and Other Conversations About Race

  Tatum, Beverly Daniel,

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  The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism—now fully revised and updated Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• They Can't Kill Us All

  the Story of #blacklivesmatter

  Lowery, Wesley, 1990-

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  A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Be An Antiracist

  Kendi, Ibram X.,

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  The touchstone book of a movement. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society.

• Stamped From the Beginning

  the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

  Kendi, Ibram X.,

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

• White Fragility

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

  DiAngelo, Robin, 1956-

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  Groundbreaking book that explores the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.

• Just Mercy

  a Story of Justice and Redemption.

  Stevenson, Bryan

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  Bryan Stevenson was a gifted young attorney when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending the poor, the wrongly condemned, and those trapped in the furthest reaches of our criminal justice system.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Between the World and Me

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi

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  Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences.

• Such a Fun Age

  a Novel

  Reid, Kiley,

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  A page-turning and story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.

• The New Jim Crow

  Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

  Alexander, Michelle,

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  Since it was first published in 2010, Alexander's book has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Friday Black

  Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame

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  A debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive voice; a treacherously surreal, and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it’s like to be young and black in America.

• Real Life

  Taylor, Brandon (Brandon L. G.),

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  A debut novel centered on n introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer that also explores the long-hidden currents of hostility and desire within his academic community.

• Heavy

  An American Memoir

  Laymon, Kiese

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  Kiese's personal stories oreflect both on the strife of American society and his experiences with growing up in a country that distrusts black people.

• The Color of Law

  a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

  Rothstein, Richard,

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  A disturbing history of residential segregation in America,.

• Citizen

  An American Lyric

  Rankine, Claudia, 1963-

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  Claudia Rankine's poetry recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media.

• 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 our combustible present, an acclaimed historian reframes the conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.

• I Am Not Your Negro

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  Envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, a narration about race in America.

• Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?

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  The film maker looks at the racial discord and violence in the world around him and has the courage to examine his own legacy.