Black Lives Matter Library

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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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We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating — 320,733 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,787 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 — 37,882 ratings
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Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 117,715 ratings
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun 4.34 avg rating — 176,456 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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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 — 25,284 ratings
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12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave 4.22 avg rating — 123,130 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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At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America 4.46 avg rating — 671 ratings
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1) 4.46 avg rating — 986,373 ratings
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Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More 4.30 avg rating — 16,467 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating — 115,141 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 4.30 avg rating — 568,942 ratings
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Black Power: The Politics of Liberation
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation 4.37 avg rating — 2,102 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 — 259,692 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 — 18,477 ratings
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
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A Song Below Water (A Song Below Water, #1)
A Song Below Water (A Song Below Water, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 11,846 ratings
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Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones 4.16 avg rating — 389 ratings
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How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society 4.36 avg rating — 777 ratings
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This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America 4.04 avg rating — 6,731 ratings
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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness 4.03 avg rating — 1,339 ratings
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Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party 4.46 avg rating — 2,751 ratings
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Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination 4.38 avg rating — 1,165 ratings
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Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi 4.28 avg rating — 215 ratings
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf 4.29 avg rating — 34,461 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 3.89 avg rating — 274,958 ratings
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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes 4.36 avg rating — 18,158 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,726 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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Nobody Knows My Name
Nobody Knows My Name 4.37 avg rating — 4,611 ratings
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Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics 4.26 avg rating — 824 ratings
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Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery 4.51 avg rating — 1,478 ratings
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We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity 4.25 avg rating — 1,303 ratings
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Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation, #2)
Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation, #2) 4.35 avg rating — 9,499 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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Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics 4.16 avg rating — 27,175 ratings
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Dutchman & The Slave: Two Plays by LeRoi Jones
Dutchman & The Slave: Two Plays by LeRoi Jones 3.80 avg rating — 3,173 ratings
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Beyond a Boundary
Beyond a Boundary 4.11 avg rating — 1,572 ratings
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The Roll
The Roll
by: Joe Hnida
4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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How To Talk To Black People
How To Talk To Black People
by: A. Anon
3.88 avg rating — 34 ratings
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They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement 4.04 avg rating — 4,037 ratings
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The Help
The Help 4.47 avg rating — 2,962,098 ratings
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Evil Aliens With Afros
Evil Aliens With Afros 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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TWAS The Year 2020
TWAS The Year 2020 3.85 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition 4.39 avg rating — 1,488 ratings
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Far Away from Close to Home: A Black Millennial Woman In Progress
Far Away from Close to Home: A Black Millennial Woman In Progress 4.41 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter
Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter 4.46 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation
The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation 4.28 avg rating — 359 ratings
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution 4.39 avg rating — 7,201 ratings
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Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism
Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism 4.53 avg rating — 537 ratings
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Do All Lives Matter?: The Issues We Can No Longer Ignore and the Solutions We All Long For
Do All Lives Matter?: The Issues We Can No Longer Ignore and the Solutions We All Long For 4.04 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Olhos d'Água
Olhos d'Água 4.42 avg rating — 7,231 ratings
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Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique
Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique 4.33 avg rating — 348 ratings
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Small Great Things
Small Great Things 4.36 avg rating — 423,963 ratings
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Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,391 ratings
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Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly
Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly 4.38 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California 4.40 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
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The Vanishing Half
The Vanishing Half 4.13 avg rating — 831,800 ratings
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The Nickel Boys
The Nickel Boys 4.26 avg rating — 291,006 ratings
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A History of Pan-African Revolt
A History of Pan-African Revolt 4.25 avg rating — 299 ratings
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"They Say": Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race
"They Say": Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race 3.77 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Color Me In
Color Me In 3.82 avg rating — 3,057 ratings
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My Bondage and My Freedom
My Bondage and My Freedom 4.38 avg rating — 12,159 ratings
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The Water Dancer
The Water Dancer 4.06 avg rating — 116,574 ratings
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Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference 3.88 avg rating — 854 ratings
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Full Disclosure
Full Disclosure 3.91 avg rating — 7,860 ratings
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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series) 3.99 avg rating — 2,345 ratings
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The Racial Contract
The Racial Contract 4.39 avg rating — 1,811 ratings
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America 4.40 avg rating — 15,748 ratings
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Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De LA Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South
Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De LA Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South 4.29 avg rating — 290 ratings
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The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership (New York Review Books Classics)
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership (New York Review Books Classics) 4.16 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure
Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure
by: Dan Baum
4.37 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination 4.30 avg rating — 485 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 — 13,757 ratings
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Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People 3.72 avg rating — 6,532 ratings
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Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900
Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900 4.36 avg rating — 760 ratings
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Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us
Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us 3.92 avg rating — 6,020 ratings
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In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition
In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition 4.46 avg rating — 259 ratings
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March: Book Three (March, #3)
March: Book Three (March, #3) 4.64 avg rating — 21,409 ratings
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The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice 3.93 avg rating — 574 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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March: Book Two (March, #2)
March: Book Two (March, #2) 4.49 avg rating — 28,882 ratings
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The Future of Crime and Punishment: Smart Policies for Reducing Crime and Saving Money
The Future of Crime and Punishment: Smart Policies for Reducing Crime and Saving Money 4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s
Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s 4.17 avg rating — 1,256 ratings
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This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
by: Kay Mills
4.21 avg rating — 310 ratings
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March: Book One (March, #1)
March: Book One (March, #1) 4.35 avg rating — 56,871 ratings
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Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America 4.10 avg rating — 831 ratings
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Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study 4.32 avg rating — 354 ratings
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement 4.44 avg rating — 33,944 ratings
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Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism
Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism 4.49 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law, 7)
Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law, 7) 4.28 avg rating — 995 ratings
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What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation
What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation 3.95 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present 4.43 avg rating — 9,664 ratings
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Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid 4.47 avg rating — 213 ratings
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Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms
Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms 4.35 avg rating — 171 ratings
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On Black Sisters Street
On Black Sisters Street 3.88 avg rating — 2,699 ratings
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Gramsci's Black Marx: Whither the Slave in Civil Society?
Gramsci's Black Marx: Whither the Slave in Civil Society? 4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings
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