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• A Little Devil in America

  Notes in Praise of Black Performance

  Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983-

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  In this staggeringly intimate meditation, essayist and poet Abdurraqib (Go Ahead in the Rain), chronicles Black performance in American culture. -- Publishers Weekly

• The Trayvon Generation

  Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962-

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  Poet and scholar Alexander expands on her viral New Yorker essay and examines the power of Black art and culture to articulate the ongoing violence against Black people in America.

• The Second

  Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America

  Anderson, Carol (Carol Elaine)

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  Anderson (White Rage) takes an illuminating look at how U.S. laws and customs around gun ownership have been used to subjugate Black Americans. -- Publishers Weekly

• Seattle From the Margins

  Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City

  Asaka, Megan

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  Uncovering a history that has been erased and distorted, Asaka explores the critical role seasonal migrant workers, largely Indigenous and Asian people, played in the development of Seattle.

• The Secret to Superhuman Strength

  Bechdel, Alison, 1960-

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  Bechdel (Are You My Mother?) makes a welcome return with this dense, finely wrought deep dive into her lifelong fixation with exercise as a balm for a variety of needs. -- Publishers Weekly

• Unraveled

  the Life and Death of a Garment

  Bédat, Maxine

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  Bédat, founder of the New Standard Institute, traces the life cycle of an average pair of jeans "from farm to landfill" in this rich exposé of the fast fashion industry. -- Publishers Weekly

• Broken Horses

  a Memoir

  Carlile, Brandi

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  Carlile, a multiple Grammy Award--winning musician, recalls the pivotal events that shaped her music and identity in this captivating memoir. -- Publishers Weekly

• Our Team

  the Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball

  Epplin, Luke

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  Sportswriter Epplin debuts with an inspirational account of the rise of the newly racially integrated 1940s Cleveland Indians, focusing on four remarkable men--players Larry Doby, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige, and team owner Bill Veeck.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Somebody's Daughter

  a Memoir

  Ford, Ashley C.

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  Journalist Ford debuts with a blistering yet tender account of growing up with an incarcerated father. -- Publishers Weekly

• Four Hundred Souls

  a Community History of African America, 1619-2019

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  Bestseller Kendi (How to Be an Antiracist) and historian Blain (Set the World on Fire) present an engrossing anthology of essays, biographical sketches, and poems by Black writers tracing the history of the African American experience from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Footnotes

  the Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way

  Gaines, Caseen, 1986-

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  Journalist Gaines (The Dark Crystal) unearths in this energetic, meticulously researched survey the story behind the 1921 musical Shuffle Along, the first show on Broadway that featured an "all-Black creative team." -- Publishers Weekly

• Essential Labor

  Mothering as Social Change

  Garbes, Angela

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  Combining personal narrative with cultural history and analysis, Seattle journalist and author Garbes calls for a reassessment of mothering that values care work and strengthens relationships and community.

• The Kissing Bug

  a True Story of a Family, An Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease

  Hernández, Daisy

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  A deeply personal, unsparing analysis of how neglected diseases disproportionately affect marginalized peoples in the world’s richest country—and why they need not. -- Kirkus

• Still Here

  a Southend Mixtape From An Unexpected Journalist

  Jackson, Reagan E. J.

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  Jackson writes with both perspective and purpose, illuminating stories that reflect the mosaic of stories comprised in Seattle. -- publisher's copy

• Admissions

  a Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

  James, Kendra

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  James offers a funny and searing portrait of race, class, and privilege in America as she recalls her experience as a Black student at an elite boarding school and as an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment.

• No More Police

  a Case for Abolition

  Kaba, Mariame

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  Two prominent prison and police abolitionists make the case for creating a world that can prevent, transform, and interrupt violence outside a system of policing.

• I'm in Seattle, Where Are You?

  a Memoir

  Kazār, Murtaḍá

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  A memoir from an Iraqi novelist, journalist, and visual artist about how the search for a lost love brought him to America and saved him from persecution as a gay Muslim man. -- Kirkus

• Red Paint

  the Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  LaPointe, Sasha taqwšeblu

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  Coast Salish poet and artist LaPointe recounts her nomadic life and examines her ancestral heritage in a search for healing and a place to call home.

• The Premonition

  a Pandemic Story

  Lewis, Michael (Michael M.)

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  Maverick doctors, scientists, and public health officials took charge of the fight against Covid-19 when the CDC and the Trump administration failed to act, according to this illuminating rehash of recent history. -- Publishers Weekly

• Indelible City

  Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong

  Lim, Louisa

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  A fascinating portrait of Hong Kong that mixes reportage and memoir to capture the city, its people, and its history.