Intersectional Books

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,053 ratings
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N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law
N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law 4.33 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion
Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America 4.53 avg rating — 37,886 ratings
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How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist 4.37 avg rating — 118,333 ratings
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So You Want to Talk About Race
So You Want to Talk About Race 4.49 avg rating — 107,278 ratings
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism 4.16 avg rating — 170,223 ratings
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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower 4.38 avg rating — 13,759 ratings
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One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy 4.39 avg rating — 3,306 ratings
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On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope 4.16 avg rating — 2,621 ratings
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir 4.49 avg rating — 25,287 ratings
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The Fight to Vote
The Fight to Vote 4.07 avg rating — 294 ratings
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide 4.47 avg rating — 14,603 ratings
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This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation
This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation 3.57 avg rating — 1,553 ratings
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants 4.52 avg rating — 158,511 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 4.47 avg rating — 109,959 ratings
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Voices of a People's History of the United States
Voices of a People's History of the United States 4.32 avg rating — 2,152 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present 4.08 avg rating — 259,712 ratings
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) 4.37 avg rating — 19,437 ratings
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Killing Rage: Ending Racism
Killing Rage: Ending Racism 4.35 avg rating — 2,855 ratings
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Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class 4.19 avg rating — 1,313 ratings
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So You Want to Talk About Race
So You Want to Talk About Race 4.49 avg rating — 107,278 ratings
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment 4.41 avg rating — 5,475 ratings
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How We Fight White Supremacy
How We Fight White Supremacy 4.24 avg rating — 570 ratings
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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice 4.53 avg rating — 4,859 ratings
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Mapping Dalit Feminism: Towards an Intersectional Standpoint
Mapping Dalit Feminism: Towards an Intersectional Standpoint really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Love, Hate and Other Filters
Love, Hate and Other Filters 3.74 avg rating — 14,085 ratings
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Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom 4.44 avg rating — 2,165 ratings
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Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World 4.21 avg rating — 41,580 ratings
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Internment
Internment 3.87 avg rating — 20,057 ratings
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story 4.61 avg rating — 23,216 ratings
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Josephine Baker's Last Dance
Josephine Baker's Last Dance 3.57 avg rating — 1,165 ratings
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 4.56 avg rating — 10,763 ratings
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The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey 4.05 avg rating — 32,570 ratings
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Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger 4.37 avg rating — 11,931 ratings
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How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide 4.27 avg rating — 2,669 ratings
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Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements 4.25 avg rating — 2,330 ratings
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Black White and Jewish
Black White and Jewish 3.78 avg rating — 2,940 ratings
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On the Come Up
On the Come Up 4.26 avg rating — 99,748 ratings
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Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism
Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 247 ratings
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The Women's Suffrage Movement
The Women's Suffrage Movement 4.05 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises 4.18 avg rating — 3,865 ratings
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A Family Is a Family Is a Family
A Family Is a Family Is a Family 4.48 avg rating — 1,489 ratings
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The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists
The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists 4.22 avg rating — 2,816 ratings
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose 4.29 avg rating — 8,252 ratings
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A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo 4.64 avg rating — 17,717 ratings
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race 4.38 avg rating — 99,867 ratings
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My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely
My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely 3.99 avg rating — 1,652 ratings
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Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence 4.26 avg rating — 2,265 ratings
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Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism
Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism 4.18 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue 4.11 avg rating — 1,967 ratings
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Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future 3.73 avg rating — 3,111 ratings
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Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black 4.37 avg rating — 2,562 ratings
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Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment 3.90 avg rating — 1,056 ratings
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How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective 4.47 avg rating — 4,610 ratings
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The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,657 ratings
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Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism 4.20 avg rating — 3,243 ratings
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The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege
The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege 3.99 avg rating — 609 ratings
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Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation 4.09 avg rating — 2,973 ratings
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When We Fight, We Win: Twenty-First-Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World
When We Fight, We Win: Twenty-First-Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World 4.09 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Full Frontal Feminism
Full Frontal Feminism 3.86 avg rating — 8,056 ratings
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Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars
Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars 4.38 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America
Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America 4.22 avg rating — 319 ratings
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From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation 4.47 avg rating — 2,325 ratings
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We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation
We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation 4.26 avg rating — 2,005 ratings
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De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century 4.25 avg rating — 166 ratings
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The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology
The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology 4.34 avg rating — 1,392 ratings
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Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System
Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System 4.16 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice
Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice 4.34 avg rating — 252 ratings
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The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom
The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom 4.36 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male
Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male
by: Tim Wise
4.05 avg rating — 278 ratings
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Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice
Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice 4.03 avg rating — 327 ratings
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Rape of the Wild: Man's Violence against Animals and the Earth
Rape of the Wild: Man's Violence against Animals and the Earth 4.26 avg rating — 47 ratings
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No Angel in the Classroom: Teaching through Feminist Discourse
No Angel in the Classroom: Teaching through Feminist Discourse 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide
The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide 4.20 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil: My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society
Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil: My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society 3.95 avg rating — 479 ratings
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Against Empire: Feminisms, Racism, and the West
Against Empire: Feminisms, Racism, and the West 3.53 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Crunk Feminist Collection
The Crunk Feminist Collection 4.39 avg rating — 290 ratings
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I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde
I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde 4.57 avg rating — 388 ratings
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Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters
Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters 4.20 avg rating — 2,651 ratings
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Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race
Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race 4.24 avg rating — 502 ratings
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Anger Is a Gift
Anger Is a Gift really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,396 ratings
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Unladylike: A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy and Claiming Your Space
Unladylike: A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy and Claiming Your Space 4.15 avg rating — 897 ratings
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Disgruntled: A Novel
Disgruntled: A Novel 3.66 avg rating — 1,425 ratings
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The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq 4.17 avg rating — 3,667 ratings
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1) 4.22 avg rating — 253,338 ratings
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A People's History of American Empire
A People's History of American Empire 4.15 avg rating — 2,940 ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating — 44,184 ratings
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Dread Nation (Dread Nation, #1)
Dread Nation (Dread Nation, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 35,470 ratings
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The Good Luck Girls (The Good Luck Girls, #1)
The Good Luck Girls (The Good Luck Girls, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 4,556 ratings
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Sand and Blood: America's Stealth War on the Mexico Border
Sand and Blood: America's Stealth War on the Mexico Border 4.27 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul 4.10 avg rating — 1,242 ratings
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the color of fear: twelve years later
the color of fear: twelve years later it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide
Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide 4.04 avg rating — 215 ratings
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The Hate U Give
The Hate U Give 4.46 avg rating — 986,443 ratings
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The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Four Presidents and Race in America
The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Four Presidents and Race in America 3.85 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology 4.35 avg rating — 920 ratings
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The Ebony Exodus Project: Why Some Black Women Are Walking Out on Religion--and Others Should Too
The Ebony Exodus Project: Why Some Black Women Are Walking Out on Religion--and Others Should Too 3.98 avg rating — 93 ratings
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When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America 4.33 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
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Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought 4.46 avg rating — 946 ratings
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