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Superior: The Return of Race Science
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Superior

By Angela Saini ,

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One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life - A Story of Race and Family Secrets
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One Drop

By Bliss Broyard ,

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Race: Antiquity and Its Legacy
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Race

By Denise Eileen McCoskey ,

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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
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Playing in the Dark

By Toni Morrison ,

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Spheres of Influence: The Social Ecology of Racial and Class Inequality: The Social Ecology of Racial and Class Inequality
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Spheres of Influence

By Douglas S. Massey , Stefanie Brodmann ,

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The Invisible Line: A Secret History of Race in America
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The Invisible Line

By Daniel J. Sharfstein ,

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Decolonizing Feminisms: Race, Gender & Empire Building
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Decolonizing Feminisms

By Laura E. Donaldson ,

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The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America
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The Ethnic Myth

By Stephen Steinberg ,

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Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical
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Becoming Belafonte

By Judith E. Smith ,

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Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre
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Weird Westerns

By Kerry Fine (editor) , Michael K. Johnson (editor) , Rebecca M. Lush (editor)

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The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening
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The Sonic Color Line

By Jennifer Lynn Stoever ,

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Selected Writings on Race and Difference
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Selected Writings on Race and Difference

By Stuart Hall ,

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The Complexion of Race: Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture
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The Complexion of Race

By Roxann Wheeler ,

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Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Activism and Action
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Anti-Racist Ally

By Sophie Williams ,

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Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
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Whiteness of a Different Color

By Matthew Frye Jacobson ,

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Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music Race and New Beginnings in a New South
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Dixie Lullaby

By Mark Kemp ,

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The Archaeology of Race: The Eugenic Ideas of Francis Galton and Flinders Petrie
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The Archaeology of Race

By Debbie Challis ,

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Living Colour's Time's Up
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Living Colour's Time's Up

By Kimberly Mack ,

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We Are Not Like Them
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We Are Not Like Them

By Christine Pride , Jo Piazza ,

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Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination
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Just around Midnight

By Jack Hamilton ,

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Archaeology, Nation, and Race: Confronting the Past, Decolonizing the Future in Greece and Israel
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Archaeology, Nation, and Race

By Raphael Greenberg , Yannis Hamilakis ,

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Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: An "Integrated Effort"
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Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era

By Beth Fowler ,

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Mapping the Interior
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Mapping the Interior

By Stephen Graham Jones ,

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Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: An "Integrated Effort"
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Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era

By Beth Fowler ,

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The Way of Tenderness: Awakening Through Race, Sexuality, and Gender
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The Way of Tenderness

By Zenju Earthlyn Manuel ,

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White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White
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White Awake

By Daniel Hill ,

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Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race
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Our Skin

By Megan Madison , Jessica Ralli , Isabel Roxas (illustrator)

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Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind
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Blinded by Sight

By Osagie Obasogie ,

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