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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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The Warmth of Other Suns

By Isabel Wilkerson ,

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

By Maya Angelou ,

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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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The Color of Law

By Richard Rothstein ,

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

By Michelle Alexander ,

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By Malcolm X , Alex Haley ,

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Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
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Fearing the Black Body

By Sabrina Strings ,

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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

By W.E.B. Du Bois ,

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Blacktop Wasteland
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Blacktop Wasteland

By S.A. Cosby ,

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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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The 1619 Project

By Nikole Hannah-Jones ,

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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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All That She Carried

By Tiya Miles ,

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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
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The Hemingses of Monticello

By Annette Gordon-Reed ,

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Between the World and Me
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Between the World and Me

By Ta-Nehisi Coates ,

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King: A Life
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King

By Jonathan Eig ,

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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement

By Barbara Ransby ,

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The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
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The Cooking Gene

By Michael W. Twitty ,

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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
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Medical Apartheid

By Harriet A. Washington ,

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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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Sister Outsider

By Audre Lorde ,

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Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
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Vanguard

By Martha S. Jones ,

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Brown Girl Dreaming
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Brown Girl Dreaming

By Jacqueline Woodson ,

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Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
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Rest Is Resistance

By Tricia Hersey ,

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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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Slavery by Another Name

By Douglas A. Blackmon ,

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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
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Crusade for Justice

By Ida B. Wells ,

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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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The Half Has Never Been Told

By Edward E. Baptist ,

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The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches
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The Souls of Black Folk

By W. E. B. Du Bois ,

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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
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Hood Feminism

By Mikki Kendall ,

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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
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Never Caught

By Erica Strong Dunbar ,

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Freedom in Congo Square
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Freedom in Congo Square

By Carole Boston Weatherford , R. Gregory Christie (illustrator) ,

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You Should See Me in a Crown
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You Should See Me in a Crown

By Leah Johnson ,

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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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Dreams from My Father

By Barack Obama ,

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The Yellow House: A Memoir
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The Yellow House

By Sarah M Broom ,

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Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
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Confederate Reckoning

By Stephanie McCurry ,

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The Fire Next Time
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The Fire Next Time

By James Baldwin ,

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W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
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W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits

By The W E B Du Bois Center at the Universi ,

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Notes of a Native Son
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Notes of a Native Son

By James Baldwin ,

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Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston
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Jump at the Sun

By Alicia Williams , Jacqueline Alcántara (illustrator) ,

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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

By Jeanne Theoharis ,

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The Undefeated
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The Undefeated

By Kwame Alexander , Kadir Nelson (illustrator) ,

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The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
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The Color of Money

By Mehrsa Baradaran ,

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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South
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Coming of Age in Mississippi

By Anne Moody ,

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The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
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The Black Butterfly

By Lawrence T. Brown ,

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When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
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When and Where I Enter

By Paula J. Giddings ,

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Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
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Dispatches from Pluto

By Richard Grant ,

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This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
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This Here Flesh

By Cole Arthur Riley ,

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Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies
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Forgotten Readers

By Elizabeth McHenry ,

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Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
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Allow Me to Retort

By Elie Mystal ,

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In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
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In the Wake

By Christina Sharpe ,

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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow

By C. Vann Woodward ,

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Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps
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Embattled Freedom

By Amy Murrell Taylor ,

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Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History
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Bloods

By Wallace Terry ,

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Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
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Until Justice Be Done

By Kate Masur ,

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The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935
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The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935

By James D. Anderson ,

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Warriors Don't Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
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Warriors Don't Cry

By Melba Pattillo Beals ,

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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
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Harriet Tubman

By Catherine Clinton ,

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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
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Malcolm X

By Manning Marable ,

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I Came as a Shadow: An Autobiography
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I Came as a Shadow

By John Thompson , Jesse Washington ,

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The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome
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The Social Life of DNA

By Alondra Nelson ,

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Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
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Dark Matters

By Simone Browne ,

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Manchild in the Promised Land
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Manchild in the Promised Land

By Claude Brown ,

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Blues People: Negro Music in White America
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Blues People

By Leroi Jones ,

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Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon
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Dream Builder

By Kelly Starling Lyons , Laura Freeman (illustrator) ,

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Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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Bearing the Cross

By David J. Garrow ,

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Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film
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Framing Blackness

By Ed Guerrero ,

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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
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Reconstruction

By Eric Foner ,

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Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom
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Black Culture and Black Consciousness

By Lawrence W. Levine ,

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Race Rebels : Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class
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Race Rebels

By Robin D. G. Kelley ,

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Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City
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Black Gotham

By Carla L. Peterson ,

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Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
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Making Whiteness

By Grace Elizabeth Hale ,

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The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
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The Promised Land

By Nicholas Lemann ,

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When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
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When Marian Sang

By Pam Muñoz Ryan , Brian Selznick (illustrator) ,

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Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
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Schomburg

By Carole Boston Weatherford , Eric Velasquez (illustrator) ,

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The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial
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The First Step

By Susan E. Goodman , E.B. Lewis (illustrator) ,

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12 Million Black Voices
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12 Million Black Voices

By Richard Wright ,

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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
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Claudette Colvin

By Phillip Hoose ,

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Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
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Liner Notes for the Revolution

By Daphne A. Brooks ,

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All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
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All God's Dangers

By Theodore Rosengarten ,

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From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
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From Here to Equality

By William A. Darity , A. Kirsten Mullen ,

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Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement
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Household Workers Unite

By Premilla Nadasen ,

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A Piece of Cake: A Memoir
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A Piece of Cake

By Cupcake Brown ,

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Assata: An Autobiography
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Assata

By Assata Shakur ,

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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, with a New Preface
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The Condemnation of Blackness

By Khalil Gibran Muhammad ,

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Lost in the City
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Lost in the City

By Edward P. Jones ,

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My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
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The Music of Black Americans: A History
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The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
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The Broken Heart of America

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Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
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Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family
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Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
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Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
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Why We Can't Wait
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The Routledge Handbook of the War of 1812
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The Routledge Handbook of the War of 1812

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Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
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Illusions of Emancipation

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They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I
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They Left Great Marks on Me

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Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
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Black Wealth / White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality
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Black Wealth / White Wealth

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The Street
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In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990
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A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau
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A New Orleans Voudou Priestess

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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
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Devil in the Grove

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Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty
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Mules and Men
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