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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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Between the World and Me
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Between the World and Me

By Ta-Nehisi Coates ,

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The Broken Shore
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The Broken Shore

By Peter Temple ,

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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
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Franchise

By Marcia Chatelain ,

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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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Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
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Necropolis

By Kathryn Olivarius ,

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

By Mohsin Hamid ,

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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
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Black Folk

By Blair LM Kelley ,

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A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America
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A Country of Strangers

By David K. Shipler ,

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Race: Antiquity and Its Legacy
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Race

By Denise Eileen McCoskey ,

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Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
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Hitler's American Model

By James Q. Whitman. ,

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American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
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American Apartheid

By Douglas S. Massey , Nancy A. Denton ,

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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
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When Affirmative Action Was White

By Ira Katznelson ,

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The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America
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The Beast Side

By D. Watkins ,

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Critical Race Theory: An Introduction
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Critical Race Theory

By Richard Delgado , Jean Stefancic ,

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Call Me Miss Hamilton: One Woman's Case for Equality and Respect
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Call Me Miss Hamilton

By Carole Boston Weatherford , Jeffery Boston Weatherford (illustrator) ,

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Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
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Begin Again

By Eddie S. Glaude Jr. ,

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Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color
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Community as Rebellion

By Lorgia García Peña ,

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How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
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How Race Is Made in America

By Natalia Molina ,

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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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Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912
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Our Rightful Share

By Aline Helg ,

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Freedom Summer
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Freedom Summer

By Deborah Wiles , Jerome Lagarrigue (illustrator) ,

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Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
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Woke Racism

By John McWhorter ,

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The Imperative of Integration
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The Imperative of Integration

By Elizabeth Anderson ,

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The Anatomy of Racial Inequality: With a New Preface
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The Anatomy of Racial Inequality

By Glenn C. Loury ,

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Go: A Coming of Age Novel
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Go

By Kazuki Kaneshiro , Takami Nieda (translator) ,

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The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
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The Chinese Must Go

By Beth Lew-Williams ,

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Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
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Half American

By Matthew F. Delmont ,

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On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone
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On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone

By Philip Ewell ,

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Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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Marching Together

By Melinda Chateauvert ,

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Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World-and How You Can, Too
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Be a Revolution

By Ijeoma Oluo ,

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White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race
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White by Law

By Ian Haney Lopez ,

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Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
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Democracy in Black

By Eddie S. Glaude ,

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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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The New Jim Crow
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The New Jim Crow

By Michelle Alexander ,

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