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• My Grandmother's Hands

  Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

  Menakem, Resmaa,

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  "The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sum of Us

  What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

  McGhee, Heather C.,

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  "Heather C. McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. As she dug into subject after subject, from the financial crisis to declining wages to collapsing public infrastructure,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Inner Work of Racial Justice

  Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness

  Magee, Rhonda V.,

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  "Law professor and mindfulness practitioner Rhonda Magee shows that the work of racial justice begins with ourselves. When conflict and division are everyday realities, our instincts tell us to close ranks, to find the safety of our own…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Racial Healing Handbook

  Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, & Engage in Collective Healing

  Singh, Anneliese A.,

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  Healing from the effects of racism is a journey that often involves reliving trauma and experiencing feelings of shame, guilt, and anxiety. The Racial Healing Handbook offers practical tools to help readers navigate daily and past…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

  Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

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

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  "In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world."…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Raising Multiracial Children

  Tools for Nurturing Identity in a Racialized World

  Nayani, Farzana, 1977-

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  "Raising Multiracial Children gives caregivers the tools for exploring race with their children, offering practical guidance on how to initiate conversations; consciously foster racial identity development; discuss issues like…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fatal Invention

  How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century

  Roberts, Dorothy E., 1956-

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  This groundbreaking book by legal scholar and social critic Dorothy Roberts examines how the myth of race as a biological concept―revived by purportedly cutting-edge science, race-specific drugs, genetic testing, and DNA…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wretched of the Earth

  Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961

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  "Frantz Fanon was one of the twentieth century's most important theorists of revolution, colonialism, and racial difference, and this, his masterwork, is a classic alongside Orientalism and The Autobiography of Malcolm X." "The Wretched of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Be Less Stupid About Race

  on Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide

  Fleming, Crystal Marie, 1981-

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  "A primer that explores how our racist American society socializes us all to be racially stupid--and what we can do about it"-- Provided by publisher.

• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

  Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1939-

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  "Historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. In An…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An African American and Latinx History of the United States

  Ortiz, Paul, 1964-

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  "Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A People's History of the United States

  Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010,

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  Library Journal calls Howard Zinn’s iconic A People's History of the United States “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those…whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.” Packed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Algorithms of Oppression

  How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

  Noble, Safiya Umoja,

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  "In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities. Data discrimination is a real social problem. Noble…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• America for Americans

  a History of Xenophobia in the United States

  Lee, Erika,

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  "Many of us like to think of the United States as a nation of immigrants. We pride ourselves on our history of welcoming foreigners and believe this sets our nation apart from every other. But the phrase 'a nation of immigrants' only dates…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Like Me

  Reflections on Life Between Cultures

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  520 This vibrant and varied collection of essays contains first person accounts about the experience of growing up between cultures. Ferrera has edited together the stories of immigrants, children or grandchildren of immigrants, indigenous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Asian American Dreams

  the Emergence of An American People

  Zia, Helen

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  "Helen Zia, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, was born in the 1950s when there were only 150,000 Chinese Americans in the entire country, and she writes as a personal witness to the dramatic changes involving Asian Americans. Written for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Big Little Man

  in Search of My Asian Self

  Tizon, Alex

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  "A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's memoir, in the spirit of Richard Rodriquez's Hunger for Memory and Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler--an intimate look at the mythology, experience, and psyche of the Asian American male"--…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Citizen

  An American Lyric

  Rankine, Claudia, 1963-

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  "Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear America

  Notes of An Undocumented Citizen

  Vargas, Jose Antonio,

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  The journalist and immigration-rights activist relates how he was sent from the Philippines to the U.S. as a child, his discovery of his undocumented status as a teenager, and his decision to reveal his immigration status publicly in 2011.

• Funny in Farsi

  a Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

  Dumas, Firoozeh

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  An autobiography of growing up as an Iranian-American describes the author's family's 1971 move from Iran to Southern California, the members of her diverse family, and their struggle with culture shock.