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• Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man

  Acho, Emmanuel

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  "You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have." So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide to the truths Americans need to know to address the systemic racism that has recently electrified protests in all fifty states. There is a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• White Tears Brown Scars

  How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

  Hamad, Ruby

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  An exhaustive look at how White women perpetuate White supremacy at the expense of women of color.

• Caste

  the Origins of Our Discontents

  Wilkerson, Isabel

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  The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist chronicles the formation and fortunes of social hierarchy

• Stay Woke

  a People's Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter

  Lopez Bunyasi, Tehama

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  The essential guide to understanding how racism works and how racial inequality shapes black lives, ultimately offering a road-map for resistance for racial justice advocates and antiracists. (Publisher)

• So You Want to Talk About Race

  Oluo, Ijeoma

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  Straight talk to blacks and whites about the realities of racism. A local author who won the Washington State Book Award in 2019 for Nonfiction.

• So You Want to Talk About Race

  Oluo, Ijeoma

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  Straight talk to blacks and whites about the realities of racism. A local author who won the Washington State Book Award in 2019 for Nonfiction. (Always available)

• Backlash

  What Happens When We Talk Honestly About Racism in America

  Yancy, George

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  When George Yancy penned a New York Times article entitled "Dear White America," he knew that he was courting controversy. Here, Yancy chronicles the ensuing blowback as he seeks to understand what it was that created so much rage among so…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Uprooting Racism

  How White People Can Work for Racial Justice

  Kivel, Paul

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  Explores the manifestations of racism in politics, work, community, and family life. (Publisher)

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

  and Other Conversations About Race

  Tatum, Beverly Daniel

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  Tatum illuminates ``why talking about racism is so hard'' and what we can do to make it easier, leaving her readers more confident about facing the difficult terrain on the road to a genuinely color-blind society.

• When They Call You a Terrorist

  A Black Lives Matter Memoir

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  A founder of Black Lives Matter chronicles growing up sensitive and black in a country militarized against her community.

• Between the World and Me

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi

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  The powerful story of a father’s past and a son’s future.

• How to Be An Antiracist

  Kendi, Ibram X.

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  A combination memoir and extension of Atlantic columnist Kendi’s towering Stamped From the Beginning (2016) that leads readers through a taxonomy of racist thought to anti-racist action.

• Stamped From the Beginning

  the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

  Kendi, Ibram X.

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  An accomplished history of racist thought and practice in the United States from the Puritans to the present.

• Stamped

  Racism, Antiracism, and You

  Kendi, Ibram X.

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  Award-winning author Reynolds (Look Both Ways, 2019, etc.) presents a young readers’ version of American University professor Kendi’s (How To Be an Antiracist, 2019, etc.) Stamped From the Beginning (2016).

• The New Jim Crow

  Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

  Alexander, Michelle

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  A civil-rights lawyer’s disturbing view of why young black men make up the majority of the more than two million people now in America’s prisons.

• Self-portrait in Black and White

  Unlearning Race

  Williams, Thomas Chatterton, 1981-

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  A standout memoir that digs into vital contemporary questions of race and self-image—among the most relevant, “What is proximity to the idea of whiteness worth and what does color cost? And the reverse?”

• What Truth Sounds Like

  Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America

  Dyson, Michael Eric

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  A social and political analyst reflects on racial tensions in contemporary America.

• Tears We Cannot Stop

  A Sermon to White America

  Dyson, Michael Eric

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  The provocateur-scholar returns to the pulpit to deliver a hard-hitting sermon on the racial divide, directed specifically to a white congregation.

• Rest in Power

  the Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin

  Fulton, Sybrina, 1966-

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  The parents of Trayvon Martin (1995-2012) tell their sides of the story about his death.

• Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil

  The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown

  McSpadden, Lezley

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  The mother of the 18-year-old killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014 relates the saga of her life in the St. Louis suburb, expressing her love for her children on nearly every page.