Melissa-Harris Perry Show Reads

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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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The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World
The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World 4.17 avg rating — 395 ratings
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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 — 115,044 ratings
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Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? What it Means to Be Black Now
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? What it Means to Be Black Now
by: Touré
3.85 avg rating — 963 ratings
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For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home
For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home 4.30 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America
Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America 4.25 avg rating — 48 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 — 259,693 ratings
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Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights 4.13 avg rating — 1,560 ratings
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The Mismeasure of Man
The Mismeasure of Man 4.05 avg rating — 9,212 ratings
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Americanah
Americanah 4.31 avg rating — 401,498 ratings
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How to Be Black
How to Be Black 3.90 avg rating — 8,857 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 4.16 avg rating — 612,703 ratings
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Black White and Jewish
Black White and Jewish 3.78 avg rating — 2,940 ratings
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No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State 4.07 avg rating — 14,931 ratings
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The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education 4.05 avg rating — 5,662 ratings
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Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet
Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet 4.50 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession 4.05 avg rating — 3,313 ratings
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SNCC: The New Abolitionists (Radical 60s)
SNCC: The New Abolitionists (Radical 60s) 4.19 avg rating — 149 ratings
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The Substance of Hope
The Substance of Hope 4.21 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Brown Girl Dreaming
Brown Girl Dreaming 4.15 avg rating — 91,858 ratings
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Malcolm X: The FBI File
Malcolm X: The FBI File 3.95 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Men Explain Things to Me
Men Explain Things to Me 3.83 avg rating — 85,147 ratings
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s
In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s 4.24 avg rating — 289 ratings
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When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down 3.99 avg rating — 2,103 ratings
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I'm the One That I Want
I'm the One That I Want 3.68 avg rating — 1,743 ratings
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color 4.52 avg rating — 9,683 ratings
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Can I Be Me?
Can I Be Me? liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement 4.03 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America
Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America 3.73 avg rating — 135 ratings
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What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States
What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States 3.95 avg rating — 590 ratings
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Respecting the Soul: Daily Reflections for Black Lesbians and Gays
Respecting the Soul: Daily Reflections for Black Lesbians and Gays 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play
A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play 3.94 avg rating — 480 ratings
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Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love 3.73 avg rating — 240 ratings
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The Belief in a Just World: A Fundamental Delusion
The Belief in a Just World: A Fundamental Delusion 4.13 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality
Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality 3.75 avg rating — 156 ratings
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The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease 4.16 avg rating — 618 ratings
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An African Centered Response to Ruby Payne's Poverty Theory
An African Centered Response to Ruby Payne's Poverty Theory 3.68 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism
Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism 3.62 avg rating — 93 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 — 113,286 ratings
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present 4.18 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia
Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia 4.53 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature
Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Long Division
Long Division 3.78 avg rating — 8,302 ratings
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Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina 3.90 avg rating — 635 ratings
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Allah, Liberty and Love: The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom
Allah, Liberty and Love: The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom 3.48 avg rating — 295 ratings
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Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought
Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought 3.55 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Courage to Hope: How I Stood Up to the Politics of Fear
The Courage to Hope: How I Stood Up to the Politics of Fear 3.97 avg rating — 39 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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Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade
Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade 4.08 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,441 ratings
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Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994
Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994 4.18 avg rating — 157 ratings
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To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War 4.18 avg rating — 660 ratings
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Speaking Truth to Power
Speaking Truth to Power 4.04 avg rating — 747 ratings
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All Labor Has Dignity
All Labor Has Dignity 4.45 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home
Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home 3.86 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells 4.32 avg rating — 826 ratings
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First Ladies: From Martha Washington to Michelle Obama
First Ladies: From Martha Washington to Michelle Obama 3.82 avg rating — 149 ratings
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What′s the Matter with White People? Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was
What′s the Matter with White People? Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was 3.73 avg rating — 392 ratings
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It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office
It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office 3.77 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy 3.99 avg rating — 6,030 ratings
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Grace for President (Grace Series, 1)
Grace for President (Grace Series, 1) 4.34 avg rating — 2,895 ratings
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Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape 4.20 avg rating — 5,237 ratings
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Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making a Sanctified World
Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making a Sanctified World 4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women 4.04 avg rating — 9,233 ratings
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Gospel According to Sarah: How Sarah Palin's Angels Are Galvanizing the Religious Right and Realigning the Values of a Nation
Gospel According to Sarah: How Sarah Palin's Angels Are Galvanizing the Religious Right and Realigning the Values of a Nation 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Are Prisons Obsolete? 4.52 avg rating — 28,735 ratings
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The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States
The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States 4.23 avg rating — 205 ratings
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A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice
A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice 4.05 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Trauma and Grace: Theology in a Ruptured World
Trauma and Grace: Theology in a Ruptured World 4.17 avg rating — 312 ratings
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Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era
Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era 3.78 avg rating — 1,406 ratings
71.
Feminist Theory and Christian Theology: Cartographies of Grace
Feminist Theory and Christian Theology: Cartographies of Grace 3.93 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating — 33,015 ratings
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Constructive Theology: A Contemporary Approach to Classical Themes
Constructive Theology: A Contemporary Approach to Classical Themes 3.76 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk 4.31 avg rating — 44,284 ratings
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Calvin and the Rhetoric of Piety (Columbia Series in Reformed Theology)
Calvin and the Rhetoric of Piety (Columbia Series in Reformed Theology) 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Better Than Crying: Poking Fun at Politics, the Press & Pop Culture
Better Than Crying: Poking Fun at Politics, the Press & Pop Culture 3.90 avg rating — 10 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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Searching for America's Heart: Rfk and the Renewal of Hope
Searching for America's Heart: Rfk and the Renewal of Hope 4.09 avg rating — 35 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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Reconnecting Disadvantaged Young Men
Reconnecting Disadvantaged Young Men really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics 4.16 avg rating — 27,175 ratings
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So Rich, So Poor: Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America
So Rich, So Poor: Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America 3.65 avg rating — 231 ratings
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks 4.08 avg rating — 1,478 ratings
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The Future of Social Insurance: Incremental Action or Fundamental Reform?
The Future of Social Insurance: Incremental Action or Fundamental Reform? 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life
Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life 3.69 avg rating — 213 ratings
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Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy (The Chardon Press Series)
Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy (The Chardon Press Series)
by: Rinku Sen
4.05 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Soul City
Soul City
by: Touré
3.76 avg rating — 207 ratings
87.
An Autobiography
An Autobiography 4.44 avg rating — 10,447 ratings
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We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party
We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party 4.44 avg rating — 502 ratings
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To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism
To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism 3.84 avg rating — 697 ratings
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain 4.05 avg rating — 78,206 ratings
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What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine the Future
What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine the Future 3.52 avg rating — 114 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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Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence
Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence 3.32 avg rating — 920 ratings
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One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Polyamory, Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love
One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Polyamory, Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love 3.74 avg rating — 445 ratings
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention 4.19 avg rating — 19,915 ratings
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Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness
Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness 4.11 avg rating — 444 ratings
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision 4.33 avg rating — 1,658 ratings
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Mission Possible: How the Secrets of the Success Academies Can Work in Any School
Mission Possible: How the Secrets of the Success Academies Can Work in Any School 3.45 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael
Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael 4.43 avg rating — 469 ratings
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