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Antiracism Reading Recommendations

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
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
Friday Black (Paperback)

By Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

$14.99

ISBN: 9781328911247

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Published: Mariner Books - October 23rd, 2018
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Paperback)

By Richard Rothstein

$17.95

ISBN: 9781631494536

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Published: Liveright - May 1st, 2018
The History of White People (Paperback)

By Nell Irvin Painter

$18.95

ISBN: 9780393339741

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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 18th, 2011
A Black Women's History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY #5) (Hardcover)

By Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross

$27.95

ISBN: 9780807033555

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Published: Beacon Press - February 4th, 2020
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)

By Claudia Rankine

$20.00

ISBN: 9781555976903

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Published: Graywolf Press - October 7th, 2014
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race (Paperback)

By Beverly Daniel Tatum

$18.99

ISBN: 9780465060689

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Published: Basic Books - September 5th, 2017
From #blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation (Paperback)

By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

$17.95

ISBN: 9781608465620

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Published: Haymarket Books - February 23rd, 2016
Don't Call Us Dead: Poems (Paperback)

By Danez Smith

$16.00

ISBN: 9781555977856

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Published: Graywolf Press - September 5th, 2017
Red at the Bone: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Jacqueline Woodson

$26.00

ISBN: 9780525535270

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Published: Riverhead Books - September 17th, 2019
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Paperback)

By Hanif Abdurraqib, Eve L. Ewing (Foreword by)

$16.99

ISBN: 9781937512651

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Published: Two Dollar Radio - November 7th, 2017
March: Book One (Paperback)

By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell (Illustrator)

$14.95

ISBN: 9781603093002

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Published: Top Shelf Productions - August 13th, 2013
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)

By Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (Foreword by), Deborah G. Plant (Introduction by)

$16.99

ISBN: 9780062748218

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Published: Amistad - January 7th, 2020
Real Life: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Brandon Taylor

$26.00

ISBN: 9780525538882

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Published: Riverhead Books - February 18th, 2020
Americanah (Paperback)

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

$16.00

ISBN: 9780307455925

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Published: Anchor - March 4th, 2014

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