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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 10th Anniversary Edition - Michelle Alexander
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide - Carol Anderson
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice - Raymond Arsenault
B
Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves - Kevin Bales
Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything - Becky Bond and Zack Exley
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68 - Taylor Branch
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63 - Taylor Branch
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 - Taylor Branch
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West - Dee Brown
To The Mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Mission to Save America: 1955-1968 - Stewart Burns
C
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Clayborne Carson
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
D
Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class - Allison Davis, Burleigh B. Gardner, and Mary R. Gardner
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - Matthew Desmond
Poverty, By America - Matthew Desmond
What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy Revised Edition - Robin DiAngelo
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin DiAngelo
My Bondage and My Freedom - Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass
The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. DuBois
E
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America - Barbara Ehrenreich
Heart-Centered Connections: Seven Essential Skills for Helping Neurodiverse and Marginalized Children Thrive - Niki Elliott
Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence - Keith Ellison
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education - Christopher Emdin
F
Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paolo Freire
G
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America - Juan González
Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin
H
The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley
War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice - Anthony Ray Hinton
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics - bell hooks
J
Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis that Shocked the Nation - Elizabeth Jacoway
The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future - Robert P. Jones
K
We Do This ’til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice - Mariame Kaba
How to be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America - Ibram X. Kendi
Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy - Coretta Scott King
The Other Side of the River: A True Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma - Alex Kotlowitz
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide - Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
M
Race to Incarcerate - Marc Mauer
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - Resmaa Menakem
I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black In America - Tyler Merritt
Holler if You Hear Me: The Education of a Teacher and His Students - Gregory Michie
N
A Different Shade of Gray: Midlife and Beyond in the City - Katherine S. Newman
Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup
O
So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
P
Peacemaking Circles: From Crime to Community - Kay Pranis, Barry Stuart, and Mark Wedge
Unequal Under Law: Race in the War on Drugs - Doris Marie Provine
R
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America - Richard Rothstein
Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law - Richard Rothstein and Leah Rothstein
S
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor - Layla F. Saad
His Name Is George Floyd - Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? - Michael J. Sandel
Lynched: The Power of Memory in a Culture of Terror - Angela D. Sims
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America - Clint Smith
Fear of Judging: Sentencing Guidelines in the Federal Courts - Kate Stith and Jose A. Cabranes
T
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race Revised and Updated - Beverly Daniel Tatum
Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America - Helen Thorpe
Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Too Afraid to Ask: Revised and Expanded - Anton Treuer
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Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington
Race Matters - Cornel West
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration - Isabel Wilkerson
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