Be a better person. Anti-racism

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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 — 115,043 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 — 37,881 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 568,927 ratings
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The Water Dancer
The Water Dancer 4.06 avg rating — 116,571 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong 3.97 avg rating — 72,720 ratings
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name 4.40 avg rating — 23,083 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcom X
The Autobiography of Malcom X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,173 ratings
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Since I Laid My Burden Down
Since I Laid My Burden Down 4.07 avg rating — 907 ratings
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Trailblazers: The Black Pioneers Who Have Shaped Canada
Trailblazers: The Black Pioneers Who Have Shaped Canada 4.74 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America 3.93 avg rating — 6,474 ratings
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The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives
The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives 4.20 avg rating — 152 ratings
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The Hate You Give
The Hate You Give 4.03 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Social Justice Fallacies
Social Justice Fallacies 4.41 avg rating — 2,417 ratings
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All American Boys
All American Boys 4.29 avg rating — 49,113 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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Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by: Nic Stone
4.33 avg rating — 84,058 ratings
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You 4.47 avg rating — 53,566 ratings
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Ghost Boys
Ghost Boys 4.33 avg rating — 32,630 ratings
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Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy
Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy 3.04 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating — 115,137 ratings
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Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays
Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays 4.66 avg rating — 2,293 ratings
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Go Tell it on the Mountain / Giovanni's Room / The Fire Next Time
Go Tell it on the Mountain / Giovanni's Room / The Fire Next Time 4.18 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Giovanni’s Room
Giovanni’s Room 4.34 avg rating — 226,035 ratings
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Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States 4.26 avg rating — 3,612 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 — 2,329 ratings
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Queenie
Queenie 3.85 avg rating — 154,544 ratings
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The Other Side of Paradise
The Other Side of Paradise 4.20 avg rating — 2,131 ratings
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Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,381 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 — 13,758 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating — 33,015 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 — 109,938 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 — 170,210 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 — 19,433 ratings
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Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 117,716 ratings
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Homegoing
Homegoing
by: Yaa Gyasi
4.47 avg rating — 386,253 ratings
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America 4.26 avg rating — 3,391 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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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism 4.50 avg rating — 18,479 ratings
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Killing Rage: Ending Racism
Killing Rage: Ending Racism 4.35 avg rating — 2,854 ratings
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Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions
Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions 3.98 avg rating — 885 ratings
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No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies
No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies 4.43 avg rating — 63 ratings
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America 4.13 avg rating — 2,017 ratings
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How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist 4.37 avg rating — 118,331 ratings
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Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond 4.31 avg rating — 2,059 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,723 ratings
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The Summer We Got Free
The Summer We Got Free 4.35 avg rating — 1,493 ratings
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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland 4.11 avg rating — 6,866 ratings
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South 4.13 avg rating — 11,515 ratings
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No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America 4.16 avg rating — 2,765 ratings
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Student Activism, Politics, and Campus Climate in Higher Education
Student Activism, Politics, and Campus Climate in Higher Education 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 476,938 ratings
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The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating — 288,091 ratings
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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America 4.19 avg rating — 1,215 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,784 ratings
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun 4.34 avg rating — 176,446 ratings
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So You Want to Talk About Race
So You Want to Talk About Race 4.49 avg rating — 107,274 ratings
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Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses
Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses 4.22 avg rating — 252 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 — 44,181 ratings
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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor 4.33 avg rating — 30,140 ratings
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Assata: An Autobiography
Assata: An Autobiography 4.59 avg rating — 29,691 ratings
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Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating — 254,486 ratings
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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America 4.18 avg rating — 5,275 ratings
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A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America (For Young People Series)
A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America (For Young People Series) 4.28 avg rating — 693 ratings
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Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? 4.34 avg rating — 26,842 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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Real Life
Real Life 3.79 avg rating — 36,470 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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The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America 3.98 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,282 ratings
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Native Son
Native Son 4.04 avg rating — 103,286 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 — 259,688 ratings
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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism 3.89 avg rating — 3,799 ratings
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Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X
Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X 4.17 avg rating — 435 ratings
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Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters 4.23 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation 4.41 avg rating — 6,283 ratings
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Young Water Protectors: A Story About Standing Rock (Young Native Boy Series)
Young Water Protectors: A Story About Standing Rock (Young Native Boy Series) 4.34 avg rating — 155 ratings
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The Day You Begin
The Day You Begin 4.43 avg rating — 12,084 ratings
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Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library 4.13 avg rating — 1,417 ratings
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Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged!
Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged! 4.05 avg rating — 248 ratings
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My Hair is a Garden
My Hair is a Garden 4.39 avg rating — 802 ratings
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The Legendary Miss Lena Horne
The Legendary Miss Lena Horne 4.15 avg rating — 441 ratings
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I Am Not a Number
I Am Not a Number 4.41 avg rating — 1,658 ratings
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Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice 4.22 avg rating — 1,778 ratings
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Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills 4.28 avg rating — 1,052 ratings
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Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer 4.31 avg rating — 2,787 ratings
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Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s
Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s 4.51 avg rating — 239 ratings
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Ruth and the Green Book
Ruth and the Green Book 4.32 avg rating — 2,485 ratings
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We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga 4.33 avg rating — 2,644 ratings
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Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis
Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis 4.08 avg rating — 915 ratings
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When We Were Alone
When We Were Alone 4.46 avg rating — 1,933 ratings
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Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America 4.16 avg rating — 945 ratings
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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History 4.58 avg rating — 4,157 ratings
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Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story
Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story
by: Paula Yoo
4.03 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Coretta Scott
Coretta Scott 4.21 avg rating — 1,167 ratings
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
My Life, My Love, My Legacy 4.22 avg rating — 1,726 ratings
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The Whispering Town
The Whispering Town 4.30 avg rating — 986 ratings
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Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom 4.36 avg rating — 6,000 ratings
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When I Was Eight
When I Was Eight 4.24 avg rating — 780 ratings
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Rosa
Rosa 4.36 avg rating — 6,842 ratings
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Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History
Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History 4.33 avg rating — 371 ratings
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