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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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How the Word Is Passed

By Clint Smith ,

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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
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Just Mercy

By Bryan Stevenson ,

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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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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
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Algorithms of Oppression

By Safiya Umoja Noble ,

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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
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Locking Up Our Own

By James Forman Jr. ,

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

By Jennifer L. Eberhardt ,

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The Other Black Girl
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The Other Black Girl

By Zakiya Dalila Harris ,

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This Is Your Brain on Stereotypes: How Science Is Tackling Unconscious Bias
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This Is Your Brain on Stereotypes

By Tanya Lloyd Kyi , Drew Shannon (illustrator) ,

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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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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
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Golden Gulag

By Ruth Wilson Gilmore ,

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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

By Gilbert King ,

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Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia's Criminal Justice System
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Criminal Injustice

By Glenn McNair ,

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The Bias That Divides Us: The Science and Politics of Myside Thinking
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The Bias That Divides Us

By Keith E. Stanovich ,

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Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing & Prisons
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Abolition for the People

By Colin Kaepernick (editor) ,

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Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries Into Indigenous Deaths in Custody
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Dying from Improvement

By Sherene Razack ,

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Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
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Better, Not Bitter

By Yusef Salaam ,

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Lessons from the Dying
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Lessons from the Dying

By Rodney Smith ( ,

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City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965
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City of Inmates

By Kelly Lytle Hernández ,

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Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
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Beneath a Ruthless Sun

By Gilbert King ,

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The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives
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The Hidden Brain

By Shankar Vedantam ,

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In Black and White: A Young Barrister's Story of Race and Class in a Broken Justice System
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In Black and White

By Alexandra Wilson ,

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The Undeserving Poor: America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty
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The Undeserving Poor

By Michael B. Katz ,

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Blood Brothers
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Blood Brothers

By Rob Sanders ,

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Back in Your Arms
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Back in Your Arms

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Ethical Machines: Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent, and Respectful AI
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Ethical Machines

By Reid Blackman ,

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I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
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I Can't Breathe

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U.P.
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U.P.

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Border Songs
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Border Songs

By Jim Lynch ,

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The Fear of Too Much Justice: How Race and Poverty Undermine Fairness in the Criminal Courts
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The Fear of Too Much Justice

By Stephen Bright , James Kwak ,

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Don't Label Me: How to Do Diversity Without Inflaming the Culture Wars
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Don't Label Me

By Irshad Manji ,

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Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights
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Manifesting Justice

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Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions
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Blind Injustice

By Mark Godsey ,

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Christianity and Critical Race Theory: A Faithful and Constructive Conversation
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Christianity and Critical Race Theory

By Robert Chao Romero , Jeff M. Liou ,

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The New Jim Crow
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The New Jim Crow

By Michelle Alexander ,

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