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• Stamped From the Beginning

  the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

  Kendi, Ibram X.,

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  "A comprehensive history of anti-black racism focuses on the lives of five major players in American history, including Cotton Mather and Thomas Jefferson, and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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  Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

• When They Call You a Terrorist

  A Black Lives Matter Memoir

  Khan-Cullors, Patrisse/ Bandele, Asha

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  "A memoir by the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement explains the movement's position of love, humanity, and justice, challenging perspectives that have negatively labeled the movement's activists while calling for essential…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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  When they call you a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors

• Me and White Supremacy

  Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

  Saad, Layla F.

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  "Based on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated participants worldwide, Me and White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day journey of how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously)…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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  Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad

• Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

  Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

  Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-

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  "Activist and scholar Angela Davis tackles our 21st-century notion of freedom--who has it, who is denied it, and the powerful forces that corrupt or distort it to marginalize individuals and groups. She narrates this collection of essays,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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  Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis

• The New Jim Crow

  Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

  Alexander, Michelle

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  "Argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race." --NoveList Plus

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  The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

• What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker

  Young, Damon

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  "The co-founder of VerySmartBrothas.com presents a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the direct impact of racism on his life, the shifting definition of Black male identity and the ongoing realities of white…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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  What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young

• So You Want to Talk About Race

  Oluo, Ijeoma,

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  "You are going to screw this up royally. More than once," notes writer and editor Oluo in this slim but potent guide to discussing race. Nevertheless, she urges readers to push past their discomfort; to do otherwise is to accept a society…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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  So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

• White Fragility : Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

  Diangelo, Robin

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  "According to antiracism scholar and educator DiAngelo, in conversations about race and combating racism, white participants often struggle with intense feelings of anger and defensiveness when presented with evidence that they benefit…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Between the World and Me

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi,

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  "Told through the author's own evolving understanding of the subject over the course of his life comes a bold and personal investigation into America's racial history and its contemporary echoes." -- NovelList Plus

• How to Be An Antiracist

  Kendi, Ibram X.,

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  Read it again. "Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Yellow House

  Broom, Sarah M.,

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  "Describes the author’s upbringing in a New Orleans East shotgun house as the unruly 13th child of a widowed mother, tracing a century of family history and the impact of class, race and Hurricane Katrina on her sense of identity."…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Can't Breathe

  a Killing on Bay Street

  Taibbi, Matt,

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  "On July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old black man named Eric Garner died on a Staten Island sidewalk after a police officer put him in what has been described as an illegal chokehold during an arrest for selling bootleg cigarettes. The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Were Eight Years in Power

  An American Tragedy

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi,

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  "A compelling portrait of the historic Barack Obama era, combining new and annotated essays from the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, includes the articles, "Fear of a Black President" and "The Case for…Read moreRead more of this annotation