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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man By Emmanuel Acho Cover Image

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man (Hardcover)

By Emmanuel Acho
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250800466
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Published: Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book - November 10th, 2020
I Don't Want to Die Poor: Essays By Michael Arceneaux Cover Image

I Don't Want to Die Poor: Essays (Paperback)

By Michael Arceneaux
$17.99
ISBN: 9781982129309
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Published: Atria Books - April 7th, 2020
Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America By Nefertiti Austin Cover Image

Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America (Hardcover)

By Nefertiti Austin
$25.99
ISBN: 9781492679011
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Published: Sourcebooks - September 20th, 2019
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap By Mehrsa Baradaran Cover Image

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap (Paperback)

By Mehrsa Baradaran
$21.00
ISBN: 9780674237476
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Published: Belknap Press - March 11th, 2019
The Vanishing Half: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) By Brit Bennett Cover Image

The Vanishing Half: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) (Hardcover)

By Brit Bennett
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525536291
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Published: Riverhead Books - June 2nd, 2020
The Water Dancer: A Novel By Ta-Nehisi Coates Cover Image

The Water Dancer: A Novel (Paperback)

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
$18.00
ISBN: 9780399590610
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Published: One World - November 17th, 2020
Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family By Garrard Conley Cover Image

Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family (Paperback)

By Garrard Conley
$18.00
ISBN: 9780735213463
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Published: Riverhead Books - February 7th, 2017
The Likely World By Melanie Conroy-Goldman Cover Image

The Likely World (Paperback)

By Melanie Conroy-Goldman
$18.95
ISBN: 9781597098083
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Published: Red Hen Press - August 4th, 2020
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower By Brittney Cooper Cover Image

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (Paperback)

By Brittney Cooper
$18.00
ISBN: 9781250112880
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Published: Picador - March 5th, 2019
White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960 By Lisa Lindquist Dorr Cover Image

White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960 (Paperback)

By Lisa Lindquist Dorr
$42.50
ISBN: 9780807855140
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Published: University of North Carolina Press - March 22nd, 2004
Dear White Women, It's Not You. It's Me. I'm Breaking Up With You!: Commentaries on Race, White Feminism, Allyship and Intersectionality By Hannah L. Drake Cover Image

Dear White Women, It's Not You. It's Me. I'm Breaking Up With You!: Commentaries on Race, White Feminism, Allyship and Intersectionality (Paperback)

By Hannah L. Drake
$20.00
ISBN: 9780997299229
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Published: Drake Publishing - October 14th, 2019
Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching By Crystal N. Feimster Cover Image

Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching (Paperback)

By Crystal N. Feimster
$27.00
ISBN: 9780674061859
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Published: Harvard University Press - September 30th, 2011
I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir By Malaka Gharib Cover Image

I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir (Paperback)

By Malaka Gharib
$16.99
ISBN: 9780525575115
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Published: Clarkson Potter - April 30th, 2019
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat By Aubrey Gordon Cover Image

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat (Hardcover)

By Aubrey Gordon
$25.95
ISBN: 9780807041307
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Published: Beacon Press - November 17th, 2020
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto By George M. Johnson Cover Image

All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto (Hardcover)

By George M. Johnson
$18.99
ISBN: 9780374312718
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) - April 28th, 2020
The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person By Frederick Joseph Cover Image

The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person (Hardcover)

By Frederick Joseph
$17.99
ISBN: 9781536217018
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Published: Candlewick - December 1st, 2020
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot By Mikki Kendall Cover Image

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)

By Mikki Kendall
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525560548
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Published: Viking - February 25th, 2020
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America By Ibram X. Kendi Cover Image

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Paperback)

By Ibram X. Kendi
$19.99
ISBN: 9781568585987
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Published: Bold Type Books - August 15th, 2017
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How to Be an Antiracist By Ibram X. Kendi Cover Image

How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)

By Ibram X. Kendi
$22.95
ISBN: 9780525509288
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Published: One World - August 13th, 2019
Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy By Talia Lavin Cover Image

Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy (Hardcover)

By Talia Lavin
$27.00
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ISBN: 9780306846434
Published: Legacy Lit - October 13th, 2020
The Making of Asian America: A History By Erika Lee Cover Image

The Making of Asian America: A History (Paperback)

By Erika Lee
$22.00
ISBN: 9781476739410
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Published: Simon & Schuster - August 16th, 2016
On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope By DeRay Mckesson Cover Image

On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope (Paperback)

By DeRay Mckesson
$17.00
ISBN: 9780525560579
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Published: Penguin Books - September 3rd, 2019
Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business By Pamela Newkirk Cover Image

Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business (Hardcover)

By Pamela Newkirk
$27.00
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ISBN: 9781568588223
Published: Bold Type Books - October 22nd, 2019
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America By Ijeoma Oluo Cover Image

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America (Hardcover)

By Ijeoma Oluo
$28.00
ISBN: 9781580059510
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Published: Seal Press - December 1st, 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race By Ijeoma Oluo Cover Image

So You Want to Talk About Race (Paperback)

By Ijeoma Oluo
$18.99
ISBN: 9781580058827
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Published: Seal Press - September 24th, 2019
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir By Patrisse Cullors, asha bandele Cover Image

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Paperback)

By Patrisse Cullors, asha bandele
$16.99
ISBN: 9781250306906
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - January 14th, 2020
The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence By Laurence Ralph Cover Image

The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence (Paperback)

By Laurence Ralph
$19.00
ISBN: 9780226650098
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Published: University of Chicago Press - January 9th, 2020
The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence By Laurence Ralph Cover Image

The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence (Paperback)

By Laurence Ralph
$19.00
ISBN: 9780226650098
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Published: University of Chicago Press - January 9th, 2020
Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity By Paola Ramos Cover Image

Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity (Paperback)

By Paola Ramos
$19.00
ISBN: 9781984899095
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Published: Vintage - October 20th, 2020
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty By Dorothy Roberts Cover Image

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Paperback)

By Dorothy Roberts
$18.00
ISBN: 9780679758693
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Published: Vintage - December 29th, 1998
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series) By David R. Roediger, Kathleen Cleaver (Introduction by), Mike Davis (Series edited by), Michael Sprinker (Series edited by) Cover Image

The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series) (Paperback)

By David R. Roediger, Kathleen Cleaver (Introduction by), Mike Davis (Series edited by), Michael Sprinker (Series edited by)
$24.95
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ISBN: 9781844671458
Published: Verso - July 17th, 2007
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America By Richard Rothstein Cover Image

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Paperback)

By Richard Rothstein
$17.95
ISBN: 9781631494536
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Published: Liveright - May 1st, 2018
Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900 By Jacqueline Jones Royster Cover Image

Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900 (Paperback)

By Jacqueline Jones Royster
$30.00
ISBN: 9781319049041
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Published: Bedford Books - May 6th, 2016
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America By Clint Smith Cover Image

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

By Clint Smith
$29.00
ISBN: 9780316492935
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - June 1st, 2021
Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African American Marriage By Dianne M. Stewart Cover Image

Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African American Marriage (Hardcover)

By Dianne M. Stewart
$30.00
ISBN: 9781580058186
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Published: Seal Press - October 6th, 2020
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia By Sabrina Strings Cover Image

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Paperback)

By Sabrina Strings
$30.00
ISBN: 9781479886753
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Published: New York University Press - May 7th, 2019
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love By Sonya Renee Taylor Cover Image

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love (Paperback)

By Sonya Renee Taylor
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ISBN: 9781626569768
Availability: Out of Print - Unavailable
Published: Berrett-Koehler Publishers - February 13th, 2018
The Undocumented Americans By Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Cover Image

The Undocumented Americans (Hardcover)

By Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
$26.00
ISBN: 9780399592683
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Published: One World - March 24th, 2020
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents By Isabel Wilkerson Cover Image

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)

By Isabel Wilkerson
$27.20
ISBN: 9780593230251
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Published: Random House - August 4th, 2020
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration By Isabel Wilkerson Cover Image

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Paperback)

By Isabel Wilkerson
$20.00
ISBN: 9780679763888
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Published: Vintage - October 4th, 2011
Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit By Mary-Frances Winters Cover Image

Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit (Paperback)

By Mary-Frances Winters
$17.95
ISBN: 9781523091300
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Published: Berrett-Koehler Publishers - September 15th, 2020
Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle Over Segregated Recreation in America (Politics and Culture in Modern America) By Victoria W. Wolcott Cover Image

Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle Over Segregated Recreation in America (Politics and Culture in Modern America) (Paperback)

By Victoria W. Wolcott
$34.95
ISBN: 9780812223286
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press - October 6th, 2014
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays By Damon Young Cover Image

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays (Paperback)

By Damon Young
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062684318
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Published: Ecco - January 14th, 2020
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