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Pepperpot
"This wonderful anthology of fresh voices from the Caribbean…includes writers from Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. The diverse textures of the stories by 13 established and new authors weave a tapestry of the...
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Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It
Many thought the election of our first African American president put an end to the conversation about race in this country, and that America had moved into a post–racial era of equality and opportunity. Then, on the night of February...
$16.95
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Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America (Available September 14,2021)
From a national political commentator and New York Times bestselling author, an analysis of America's burning race crisis and the incomplete efforts in the past two decades -- by social movements and political leaders -- to address it, offering a vision for...
$28.00
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Middle Passage
A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson’s National Book Award-winning masterpiece—"a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick…heroic in proportion…fiction that hooks the mind" (The New York Times Book Review)—now with a new introduction from Stanley Crouch.Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed...
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The Sellout
Winner of the Man Booker PrizeWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in FictionWinner of the John Dos Passos Prize for LiteratureNew York Times BestsellerLos Angeles Times BestsellerNamed One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book...
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Red Was the Midnight
Red Was the Midnight, is a riveting novel that intertwines the imaginative story of a striving “colored” family—three sisters and a brother—with an account of an actual race riot that roiled Atlanta for four days in September, 1906. In this...
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Passage
"In [Lazarre-White's] world, mysticism and madness walk hand in hand with the waking reality of so many young Black men in America, a reality that by any rational measure is itself insane." --Susan L. TaylorPassage tells the story of Warrior,...
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Some of My Friends Are...: The Daunting Challenges and Untapped Benefits of Cross-Racial Friendships
Publisher : Beacon Press; Reprint edition (January 21, 2020)
Paperback : 256 pages
ISBN-13 : 9780807039922
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Hands Up, Don't Shoot: Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter, and How They Changed America
Understanding the explosive protests over police killings and the legacy of racismFollowing the high-profile deaths of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, both cities erupted in protest over the unjustified homicides of unarmed...
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We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility
In the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means—and how we take steps to get there. “In the United States, being poor and Black makes you more likely to get...
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How Are You Going to Save Yourself
Four young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut "as up-to the-minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale"...
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Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World (Available October 29,2021)
The author of The Butler and Showdown examines 100 years of Black movies--using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism to explore Black culture and the civil rights movement in America.Beginning in 1915 with D.W. Griffith's The Birth...
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The Residue Years
Winner Whiting Writers' AwardWinner Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary ExcellenceFinalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut FictionFinalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel PrizeFinalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in...
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Healing Racial Divides: Finding Strength in Our Diversity
“Carter’s wise work will compel white Christian readers to engage in race relations in a more up-front, graceful, and honest manner." —Publishers WeeklyWhile our faith calls us to unity, the hard fact remains: Christians are still tragically divided when it comes...
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Stay Woke: A People's Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter
The essential guide to understanding how racism works and how racial inequality shapes black lives, ultimately offering a road-map for resistance for racial justice advocates and antiracistsWhen #BlackLivesMatter went viral in 2013, it shed a light on the urgent, daily...
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The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement
During his 28-year career, Matthew Horace rose through the ranks from a police officer working the beat to a federal agent working criminal cases in some of the toughest communities in America to a highly decorated federal law enforcement executive...
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They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement
A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of...
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It's Time to Talk (and Listen): How to Have Constructive Conversations about Race, Class, Sexuality, Ability & Gender in a Polarized World
Conversations about controversial topics can be difficult, painful, and emotionally charged. This user-friendly guide will help you engage in effective, compassionate discussions with family, friends, colleagues, and even strangers about race, immigration, gender, marriage equality, sexism, marginalization, and more. We...
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Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field
A bold and impassioned meditation on injustice in our country that punctures the illusion of a postracial America and reveals it as a place where authoritarianism looms large.Whether the issues are protest, labor, patriotism, or class division, it is clear...
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Things That Make White People Uncomfortable
A version for Young Adults is also available. Michael Bennett is a Super Bowl Champion, a three-time Pro Bowl defensive end, a fearless activist, a feminist, a grassroots philanthropist, an organizer, and a change maker. He's also one of the...
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