ANTIRACIST READING LIST ADULT

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

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Paperback)

By Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by)
$16.00
ISBN: 9780807047415
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Published: Beacon Press - June 26th, 2018
How to Be an Antiracist Cover Image

How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)

By Ibram X. Kendi
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525509288
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Published: One World - August 13th, 2019
So You Want to Talk About Race Cover Image

So You Want to Talk About Race (Paperback)

By Ijeoma Oluo
$16.99
ISBN: 9781580058827
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Published: Seal Press - September 24th, 2019
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness Cover Image

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)

By Austin Channing Brown
$25.00
ISBN: 9781524760854
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Published: Convergent Books - May 15th, 2018
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do Cover Image

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do (Paperback)

By Jennifer L. Eberhardt
$18.00
ISBN: 9780735224957
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Published: Penguin Books - March 3rd, 2020
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Cover Image

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Paperback)

By Michelle Alexander
$18.99
ISBN: 9781620971932
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Published: New Press - January 7th, 2020
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America Cover Image

Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America (Paperback)

By Jennifer Harvey
$18.99
ISBN: 9781501878077
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Published: Abingdon Press - February 5th, 2019
I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street Cover Image

I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street (Paperback)

By Matt Taibbi
$18.00
ISBN: 9780812988857
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Published: Random House - September 4th, 2018
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America Cover Image

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Paperback)

By James Forman, Jr.
$17.00
ISBN: 9780374537449
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - February 6th, 2018
Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream Cover Image

Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream (Hardcover)

By Blair Imani, Patrisse Cullors (Foreword by)
$18.99
ISBN: 9781984856920
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Published: Ten Speed Press - January 14th, 2020
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature Cover Image

The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature (Paperback)

By J. Drew Lanham
$16.00
ISBN: 9781571313508
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Published: Milkweed Editions - June 13th, 2017
Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race Cover Image

Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race (Paperback)

By Debby Irving
$19.99
ISBN: 9780991331307
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Published: Elephant Room Press - January 9th, 2014
Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family Cover Image

Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family (Paperback)

By Mitchell Jackson
$17.00
ISBN: 9781501131738
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Published: Scribner - February 4th, 2020
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Cover Image

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Paperback)

By Bryan Stevenson
$17.00
ISBN: 9780812984965
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Published: One World - August 18th, 2015
Just Mercy (Movie Tie-In Edition): A Story of Justice and Redemption Cover Image

Just Mercy (Movie Tie-In Edition): A Story of Justice and Redemption (Paperback)

By Bryan Stevenson
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593133934
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Published: One World - December 3rd, 2019
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays Cover Image

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays (Paperback)

By Damon Young
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062684318
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Published: Ecco - January 14th, 2020
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir Cover Image

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Saeed Jones
$26.00
ISBN: 9781501132735
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Published: Simon & Schuster - October 8th, 2019
The Cure for Hate: A Former White Supremacist's Journey from Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion Cover Image

The Cure for Hate: A Former White Supremacist's Journey from Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion (Paperback)

By Tony McAleer
$18.95
ISBN: 9781551527697
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Published: Arsenal Pulp Press - November 5th, 2019
Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist Cover Image

Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist (Paperback)

By Eli Saslow
$16.00
ISBN: 9780525434955
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Published: Anchor - September 3rd, 2019
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League Cover Image

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League (Paperback)

By Jeff Hobbs
$17.00
ISBN: 9781476731919
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Published: Scribner - July 28th, 2015
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland Cover Image

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland (Hardcover)

By Jonathan M. Metzl
$32.00
ISBN: 9781541644984
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Published: Basic Books - March 5th, 2019
Activist: Portraits of Courage (Civil Rights Book, Social Justice Book, Inspirational Gift) Cover Image

Activist: Portraits of Courage (Civil Rights Book, Social Justice Book, Inspirational Gift) (Hardcover)

By KK Ottesen
$35.00
ISBN: 9781452182773
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Published: Chronicle Books - October 8th, 2019
Raising Multiracial Children: Tools for Nurturing Identity in a Racialized World Cover Image

Raising Multiracial Children: Tools for Nurturing Identity in a Racialized World (Paperback)

By Farzana Nayani, DR. Paul Spickard (Foreword by), Dr. Velina Hasu Houston (Afterword by)
$15.95
ISBN: 9781623174491
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Published: North Atlantic Books - March 20th, 2020
Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America Cover Image

Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America (Paperback)

By Sharmila Sen
$16.00
ISBN: 9780143131380
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Published: Penguin Books - August 28th, 2018
Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now Cover Image

Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now (Paperback)

By Andre Perry
$15.99
ISBN: 9781937512835
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Published: Two Dollar Radio - November 12th, 2019
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us Cover Image

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Paperback)

By Hanif Abdurraqib, Eve L. Ewing (Foreword by)
$16.99
ISBN: 9781937512651
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Published: Two Dollar Radio - November 7th, 2017
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation Cover Image

Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation (Paperback)

By Steve Luxenberg
$19.95
ISBN: 9780393357691
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - February 4th, 2020
The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom Cover Image

The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom (Paperback)

By William Still, Ta-Nehisi Coates (Introduction by), Quincy T. Mills (Editor)
$18.00
ISBN: 9781984855053
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Published: Modern Library - September 24th, 2019
Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of America Cover Image

Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of America (Paperback)

By Richard Gergel
$18.00
ISBN: 9781250251268
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Published: Picador - February 18th, 2020
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow Cover Image

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow (Hardcover)

By Henry Louis Gates
$30.00
ISBN: 9780525559535
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Published: Penguin Press - April 2nd, 2019
Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home Cover Image

Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home (Hardcover)

By Richard Bell
$27.00
ISBN: 9781501169434
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Published: 37 Ink - October 15th, 2019
Finding Freedom: The Untold Story of Joshua Glover, Runaway Slave Cover Image

Finding Freedom: The Untold Story of Joshua Glover, Runaway Slave (Hardcover)

By Walter T. McDonald, Ruby West Jackson
$18.95
ISBN: 9780870203824
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Published: Wisconsin Historical Society Press - May 1st, 2007
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases Cover Image

Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (Hardcover)

By Michael Chabon (Editor), Ayelet Waldman (Editor), Dave Cole (Foreword by), Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jacqueline woodson, Ann Patchett, Brit Bennett, Steven Okazaki, David Handler, Geraldine Brooks, Yaa Gyasi, Sergio De La Pava, Dave Eggers, Timothy Egan, Li Yiyun, Meg Wolitzer, Hector Tobar, Aleksandar Hemon, Elizabeth Strout, Rabih Alameddine, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Jonathan Lethem, Salman Rushdie, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Egan, Scott Turow, Morgan Parker, Victor Lavalle, Michael Cunningham, Neil Gaiman, Jesmyn Ward, Moses Sumney, George Saunders, Marlon James, William Finnegan, Anthony Doerr, C.J. Anders, Brenda J. Childs, Andrew Sean Greer, Louise Erdrich, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
$27.00
ISBN: 9781501190407
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Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - January 21st, 2020
Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness Cover Image

Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness (Hardcover)

By Jennifer Berry Hawes
$28.99
ISBN: 9781250117762
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Published: St. Martin's Press - June 4th, 2019
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Cover Image

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Paperback)

By Trevor Noah
$18.00
ISBN: 9780399588198
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Published: One World - February 12th, 2019
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor Cover Image

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)

By Layla Saad, Robin Diangelo (Foreword by)
$25.99
ISBN: 9781728209807
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Published: Sourcebooks - January 28th, 2020
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Cover Image

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Paperback)

By Ibram X. Kendi
$19.99
ISBN: 9781568585987
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Published: Bold Type Books - August 15th, 2017
Between the World and Me Cover Image

Between the World and Me (Hardcover)

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
$26.00
ISBN: 9780812993547
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Published: One World - July 14th, 2015
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race Cover Image

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Paperback)

By Reni Eddo-Lodge
$18.00
ISBN: 9781635572957
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - March 5th, 2019
Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America Cover Image

Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America (Hardcover)

By Candacy Taylor
$35.00
ISBN: 9781419738173
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Published: Harry N. Abrams - January 7th, 2020
Heavy: An American Memoir Cover Image

Heavy: An American Memoir (Paperback)

By Kiese Laymon
$16.00
ISBN: 9781501125669
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Published: Scribner - March 5th, 2019
The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner) Cover Image

The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner) (Hardcover)

By Sarah M. Broom
$26.00
ISBN: 9780802125088
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Published: Grove Press - August 13th, 2019
Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America Cover Image

Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America (Paperback)

By Dorothy Butler Gilliam
$17.99
ISBN: 9781546083450
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Published: Center Street - September 10th, 2019
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America Cover Image

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America (Paperback)

By Darnell L. Moore
$16.99
ISBN: 9781568589404
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Published: Bold Type Books - February 19th, 2019
Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship Cover Image

Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship (Paperback)

By Michelle Kuo
$17.00
ISBN: 9780812987140
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - April 3rd, 2018
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More Cover Image

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More (Paperback)

By Janet Mock
$16.99
ISBN: 9781476709130
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Published: Atria Books - December 2nd, 2014
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century Cover Image

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)

By Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige, Danny Glover (Foreword by)
$22.00
ISBN: 9780520272590
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Published: University of California Press - May 31st, 2012
Barracoon: The Story of the Last

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)

By Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (Foreword by), Deborah G. Plant (Introduction by)
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062748218
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Published: Amistad - January 7th, 2020
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Cover Image

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (Paperback)

By Roxane Gay
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062420718
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Published: Harper Perennial - June 12th, 2018
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Cover Image

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Paperback)

By David W. Blight
$22.00
ISBN: 9781416590323
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Published: Simon & Schuster - January 7th, 2020
killing rage: Ending Racism Cover Image

killing rage: Ending Racism (Paperback)

By bell hooks
$18.00
ISBN: 9780805050271
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Published: Holt Paperbacks - October 15th, 1996
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother Cover Image

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (Paperback)

By James McBride
$16.00
ISBN: 9781594481925
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Published: Riverhead Books - February 7th, 2006
Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People Cover Image

Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People (Hardcover)

By Ben Crump
$26.99
ISBN: 9780062375094
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Published: Amistad - October 15th, 2019
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons Cover Image

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons (Hardcover)

By Imani Perry
$18.00
ISBN: 9780807076552
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Published: Beacon Press - September 17th, 2019
More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say) Cover Image

More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say) (Hardcover)

By Elaine Welteroth
$26.00
ISBN: 9780525561583
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Published: Viking - June 11th, 2019
Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime Cover Image

Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime (Paperback)

By Ron Stallworth
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250299055
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Published: Flatiron Books - July 31st, 2018
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing Cover Image

Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (Paperback)

By Stephanie Stokes Oliver (Editor), Nikki Giovanni (Foreword by)
$16.00
ISBN: 9781501154294
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Published: 37 Ink - December 4th, 2018
Nigger: An Autobiography Cover Image

Nigger: An Autobiography (Paperback)

By Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte
$16.00
ISBN: 9780593086148
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Published: Plume - June 11th, 2019
Check Your Privilege: Live into the Work Cover Image

Check Your Privilege: Live into the Work (Paperback)

By Myisha T. Hill (Contribution by), Brandy Varnado (Contribution by), Jennifer Kinney (Contribution by)
$12.99
ISBN: 9780990522331
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Published: Dirt Path Publishing - March 2nd, 2020
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools Cover Image

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (Paperback)

By Monique Morris, Mankaprr Conteh (Foreword by), Melissa Harris-Perry (Foreword by)
$18.95
ISBN: 9781620973424
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Published: New Press - January 16th, 2018
Becoming Cover Image

Becoming (Hardcover)

By Michelle Obama
$32.50
ISBN: 9781524763138
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Published: Crown - November 13th, 2018
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine Cover Image

Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine (Paperback)

By Emily Bernard
$16.00
ISBN: 9781101972410
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Published: Vintage - December 3rd, 2019
Tales of East Africa: (African Folklore Book for Teens and Adults, Illustrated Stories and Literature from Africa) Cover Image

Tales of East Africa: (African Folklore Book for Teens and Adults, Illustrated Stories and Literature from Africa) (Hardcover)

By Jamilla Okubo
$22.95
ISBN: 9781452182582
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Published: Chronicle Books - March 10th, 2020
The Gift of Our Wounds: A Sikh and a Former White Supremacist Find Forgiveness After Hate Cover Image

The Gift of Our Wounds: A Sikh and a Former White Supremacist Find Forgiveness After Hate (Hardcover)

By Arno Michaelis, Pardeep Singh Kaleka
$26.99
ISBN: 9781250107541
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Published: St. Martin's Press - April 10th, 2018
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America Cover Image

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America (Hardcover)

By Michael Eric Dyson
$24.99
ISBN: 9781250135995
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Published: St. Martin's Press - January 17th, 2017
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America Cover Image

What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America (Hardcover)

By Michael Eric Dyson
$24.99
ISBN: 9781250199416
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Published: St. Martin's Press - June 5th, 2018
The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America Cover Image

The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America (Paperback)

By Michael Eric Dyson
$15.95
ISBN: 9780544811805
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Published: Mariner Books - January 10th, 2017
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment Cover Image

Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment (Paperback)

By Angela J. Davis, Bryan Stevenson, Marc Mauer, Bruce Western, Jeremy Travis
$16.00
ISBN: 9780525436614
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Published: Vintage - May 15th, 2018