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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
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The Sum of Us

By Heather McGhee ,

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Prairie Lotus
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Prairie Lotus

By Linda Sue Park ,

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The Weight of Blood
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The Weight of Blood

By Tiffany D. Jackson ,

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Antiracist Baby
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Antiracist Baby

By Ibram X. Kendi , Ashley Lukashevsky (illustrator) ,

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Our Missing Hearts
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Our Missing Hearts

By Celeste Ng ,

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Scary Monsters: A Novel in Two Parts
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Scary Monsters

By Michelle de Kretser ,

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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning
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Stamped

By Jason Reynolds , Ibram X. Kendi ,

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You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
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You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey

By Amber Ruffin , Lacey Lamar ,

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Hell of a Book
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Hell of a Book

By Jason Mott ,

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The Violin Conspiracy
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The Violin Conspiracy

By Brendan Slocumb ,

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Where the Light Fell
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Where the Light Fell

By Philip Yancey ,

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Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
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Robert E. Lee and Me

By Ty Seidule ,

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Dimension of Miracles
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Dimension of Miracles

By Robert Sheckley ,

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Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
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Under the Skin

By Linda Villarosa ,

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Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the Afronet to Black Lives Matter
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Black Software

By Charlton D. McIlwain ,

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Ours to Explore: Privilege, Power, and the Paradox of Voluntourism
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Ours to Explore

By Pippa Biddle ,

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A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South
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A Shot in the Moonlight

By Ben Montgomery ,

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Can You Sign My Tentacle?: Poems
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Can You Sign My Tentacle?

By Brandon O'Brien ,

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My Monticello: Fiction
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My Monticello

By Jocelyn Nicole Johnson ,

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Red Thorns
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Red Thorns

By Rina Kent ,

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Finding Junie Kim
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Finding Junie Kim

By Ellen Oh ,

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The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America
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The Profession

By Bill Bratton , Peter Knobler ,

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Strangeworlds Travel Agency: Volume 1
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Strangeworlds Travel Agency

By L.D. Lapinski ,

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Other People's Houses
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Other People's Houses

By Kelli Hawkins ,

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Three Hours
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Three Hours

By Rosamund Lupton ,

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Old Cold Cannibal
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Old Cold Cannibal

By Todd Maternowski ,

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Against the Wall: My Journey from Border Patrol Agent to Immigrant Rights Activist
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Against the Wall

By Jenn Budd ,

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Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism
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Whiter

By Nikki Khanna ,

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Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
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Abolition Geography

By Ruth Wilson Gilmore , Brenna Bandar (editor) , Alberto Toscano (editor)

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Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt
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Beyond Innocence

By Phoebe Zerwick ,

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Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System
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Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System

By M. Chris Fabricant ,

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The Racial Contract
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The Racial Contract

By Charles W. Mills ,

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The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism
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The Trouble with White Women

By Kyla Schuller ,

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Sandman Mystery Theatre Compendium One
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Sandman Mystery Theatre Compendium One

By Matt Wagner , Guy Davis (illustrator) ,

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East of Troost
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East of Troost

By Ellen Barker ,

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Beatrice and Croc Harry
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Beatrice and Croc Harry

By Lawrence Hill ,

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Fattily Ever After: A Black Fat Girl's Guide to Living Life Unapologetically
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Fattily Ever After

By Stephanie Yeboah ,

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The Brown Bullet: Rajo Jack's Drive to Integrate Auto Racing
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The Brown Bullet

By Bill Poehler ,

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Lurking Under the Surface: Horror, Religion, and the Questions that Haunt Us
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Lurking Under the Surface

By Brandon R. Grafius ,

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Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love
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Racism and the Making of Gay Rights

By Laurie Marhoefer ,

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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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The Unfortunates
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The Unfortunates

By J K Chukwu ,

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How to Argue with a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say about Human Difference
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How to Argue with a Racist

By Adam Rutherford ,

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Land That I Love: a Novel of the Texas Hill Country
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Land That I Love

By Gail Kittleson ,

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The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861
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The Democratic Collapse

By Lauren N. Haumesser ,

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The Songbook of Benny Lament
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The Songbook of Benny Lament

By Amy Harmon ,

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A Kids Book About Racism
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A Kids Book About Racism

By Jelani Memory ,

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Horror Noire: A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present
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Horror Noire

By Robin R. Means Coleman ,

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The Good Turn
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The Good Turn

By Sharna Jackson ,

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Crime Novels of the 1960s: Nine Classic Thrillers
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Crime Novels of the 1960s

By Geoffrey O'Brien (editor) ,

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Dear White Peacemakers: Dismantling Racism with Grit and Grace
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Dear White Peacemakers

By Osheta Moore ,

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A Global Racial Enemy: Muslims and 21st-Century Racism
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A Global Racial Enemy

By Saher Selod , Inaash Islam , Steve Garner

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I Could Be So Good for You: A Portrait of the North London Working Class
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I Could Be So Good for You

By John Medhurst ,

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Avalanche
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Avalanche

By Jessica Westhead ,

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The Bad Immigrant
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The Bad Immigrant

By Sefi Atta ,

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Imperial Liquor: Poems
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Imperial Liquor

By Amaud Jamaul Johnson ,

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I am The Rage: A Black Poetry Collection
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I am The Rage

By Martina McGowan , Diana Ejaita (illustrator) ,

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Teachers of Color: Resisting Racism and Reclaiming Education
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Teachers of Color

By Rita Kohli , H. Richard Milner (editor) ,

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The Outsider
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The Outsider

By Richard Wright ,

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In Every Mirror She's Black
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In Every Mirror She's Black

By Lola Akinmade Akerstrom ,

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Fast Pitch
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Fast Pitch

By Nic Stone ,

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Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
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Ancestor Trouble

By Maud Newton ,

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No Politics But Class Politics
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No Politics But Class Politics

By Walter Benn Michaels , Adolph Reed Jr. , Daniel Zamora (editor) , Anton Jager (editor)

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Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis
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Late Fascism

By Alberto Toscano ,

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I Rise
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I Rise

By Marie Arnold ,

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You Think You Know Me
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You Think You Know Me

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The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
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The Wrath to Come

By Sarah Churchwell ,

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The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism
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The Color of Compromise

By Jemar Tisby ,

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The Religion of Whiteness: How Racism Distorts Christian Faith
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The Religion of Whiteness

By Michael O. Emerson , Glenn E. Bracey II ,

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Anne of West Philly
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Anne of West Philly

By Ivy Noelle Weir , Myisha Haynes (illustrator) ,

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Fifteen Cents on the Dollar
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Fifteen Cents on the Dollar

By Louise Story , Ebony Reed ,

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Believe-in-You Money
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Believe-in-You Money

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A Most Peculiar Act
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