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Books about How to be an Antiracist, Black Author titles
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ISBN: 9780375707544
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Published: Vintage - June 13th, 2000
From the author of bestselling Invisible Man—the classic novel of African-American experience—this long-awaited second novel tells an evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century. Brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise, Juneteenth is the work of an American master.
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ISBN: 9781580058827
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Published: Seal Press - September 24th, 2019
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America
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ISBN: 9781524760854
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Published: Convergent Books - May 15th, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK • From a leading voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female that exposes how white America’s love affair with “diversity” so often falls short of its ideals.
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ISBN: 9781620142639
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Published: Tu Books - October 10th, 2017
The Hate U Give meets The Lovely Bones in this unflinching graphic novel about the afterlife of a young man killed by an off-duty police officer, co-illustrated by New York Times bestselling artist John Jennings.
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ISBN: 9780060533489
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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics - September 30th, 2003
Now an HBO Film!
“If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son.” – Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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ISBN: 9781728209807
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Published: Sourcebooks - January 28th, 2020
The New York Times and USA Today bestseller This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.
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ISBN: 9781632173409
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Published: Spruce Books - July 23rd, 2020
Celebrate resistance and spark change!
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ISBN: 9780525509288
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Published: One World - August 13th, 2019
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves.
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ISBN: 9781620971932
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Published: New Press - January 7th, 2020
Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate' Chronicle of Higher Education' Literary Hub, Book Riot' and Zora
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ISBN: 9781631494536
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Published: Liveright - May 1st, 2018
New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection
One of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the Year
One of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction
An NPR Best Book of the Year
Winner of the Hillman Prize for Nonfiction
Gold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfi
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ISBN: 9780812984965
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Published: One World - August 18th, 2015
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.
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ISBN: 9781642590234
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Published: Haymarket Books - September 3rd, 2019
A version for Young Adults is also available.
Michael Bennett is a Super Bowl Champion, a three-time Pro Bowl defensive end, a fearless activist, a feminist, a grassroots philanthropist, an organizer, and a change maker. He's also one of the most scathingly humorous athletes on the planet, and he wants to make you uncomfortable.
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ISBN: 9781620974834
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Published: New Press - September 18th, 2018
Finalist for the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency's Media for a Just Society Awards
Nominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction) A 2017 Washington Post Notable Book A Kirkus Best Book of 2017
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ISBN: 9780316453691
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - March 10th, 2020
The #1 New York Times bestseller and a USAToday bestseller!A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America
This is NOT a history book.
This is a book about the here and now.
A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.
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ISBN: 9781555976903
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Published: Graywolf Press - October 7th, 2014
* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry *
* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
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ISBN: 9780679744726
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Published: Vintage - December 1st, 1992
"Basically the finest essay I’ve ever read. . . . Baldwin refused to hold anyone’s hand. He was both direct and beautiful all at once. He did not seem to write to convince you. He wrote beyond you.” --Ta-Nehisi Coates
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ISBN: 9781568585987
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Published: Bold Type Books - August 15th, 2017
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
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ISBN: 9780307473431
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Published: Vintage - August 23rd, 2016
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the Heartland Prize
A New York Times Notable Book
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ISBN: 9780525560548
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Published: Viking - February 25th, 2020
A New York Times Bestseller
"If Hood Feminism is a searing indictment of mainstream feminism, it is also an invitation. . . . [Kendall] offers guidance for how we can all do better."--NPR
"A rousing call to action for today's feminists. It should be required reading for everyone."--Gabrielle Union, author of We're Going to Need More Wine
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ISBN: 9781620973424
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Published: New Press - January 16th, 2018
The "powerful" (Michelle Alexander) exploration--featured by The Atlantic, Essence, the Washington Post, New York magazine, NPR, and others--of the harsh and harmful experiences confronting Black girls in schools
In a work that Lisa Delpit calls "imperative reading," Monique W.
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ISBN: 9780679763888
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Published: Vintage - October 4th, 2011
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
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ISBN: 9780711245211
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Published: Frances Lincoln Children's Books - January 7th, 2020
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Featured by Oprah's Book Club on the Anti-Racist Books for Young Adults list curated by best-selling author Jacqueline Woodson
A USA TODAY Bestseller
Recommended by ESSENCE, We Need Diverse Books, ellentube, Brit + Co, PureWow, Teen Vogue, Time magazine, and New York$18.00ISBN: 9780399590573Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: One World - October 30th, 2018In this “urgently relevant”* collection featuring the landmark essay “The Case for Reparations,” the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath”*—including the election of Donald Trump.
$14.36ISBN: 9781784782924Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Verso - August 28th, 2018LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
$17.00ISBN: 9781608197651Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Bloomsbury USA - September 16th, 2014Named one of the Best Books of the Century by New York Magazine
Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing) contends with the deaths of five young men dear to her, and the risk of being a black man in the rural South.$15.30ISBN: 9781501132742Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Simon & Schuster - July 7th, 2020From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives—winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award—is a “moving, bracingly honest memoir” (The New York Times Book Review) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power.
One of the best books of the year as selected by The New York Times; The Washington Post$26.00ISBN: 9780812993547Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: One World - July 14th, 2015#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
$16.00ISBN: 9780807047415Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Beacon Press - June 26th, 2018The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
$17.00ISBN: 9781250083258Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Picador - March 1st, 2016Winner of the Man Booker Prize
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction
Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature
New York Times Bestseller
Los Angeles Times Bestseller
Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review$18.99ISBN: 9780062498533Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Balzer + Bray - February 28th, 20178 starred reviews ∙ Goodreads Choice Awards Best of the Best ∙ William C. Morris Award Winner ∙ National Book Award Longlist ∙ Printz Honor Book ∙ Coretta Scott King Honor Book ∙ #1 New York Times Bestseller!
"Absolutely riveting!" —Jason Reynolds
$13.49ISBN: 9781328911247Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Mariner Books - October 23rd, 2018INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“An unbelievable debut, one that announces a new and necessary American voice.” —Tommy Orange, New York Times Book Review
“An excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny.” —George Saunders
“Dark and captivating and e$10.79ISBN: 9781481463348Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books - August 29th, 2017A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature.
$14.40ISBN: 9780807005934Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Beacon Press - December 11th, 2018An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights
Email or call for priceISBN: 9780060929077Availability: Special OrderPublished: Harper Perennial - June 23rd, 1998"A compelling page-turner that will keep readers hoping against hope that everything will somehow, magically, turn out for the best." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
$17.99ISBN: 9781632060976Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Restless Books - February 14th, 2017Restless Classics presents The Souls of Black Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois’s seminal work of sociology, with searing insights into our complex, corrosive relationship with race and the African-American consciousness. Reconsidered for the era of Obama, Trump, and Black Lives Matter, the new edition includes an incisive introduction from rising cultural critic Vann R.
$25.20ISBN: 9781580059510Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order NowPublished: Seal Press - December 1st, 2020From the author of the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity.
What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments?
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