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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Michelle Alexander.
Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy. Barbara Applebaum.
I Know Why The Caged Birds Sing. Maya Angelou
The Fire Next Time. James Baldwin.
Giovanni’s Room. James Baldwin.
Unapologetic: A Black, Queen, and Feminist Mandae for Radical Movements. Charlene A. Carruthers.
Queenie. Candace Carty-Williams.
Other Side of Paradise. Staceyann Chin.
Between the World and Me. Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Water Dancer. Ta-Nehisi Coates
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. Brittney Cooper.
Women, Race, & Class. Angela Y. Davis
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Matthew Desmond
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Race. Robin DiAngelo
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Bad Feminist. Roxane Gay
Homegoing. Yaa Gyasi.
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Patricia Hill Collins.
Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism. Bell Hooks.
Killing Rage: Ending Racism. Bell Hooks.
No Tea, No Shade. New Writings in Black Queer Studies. E. Patrick Johnson.
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in 20th Century America. Ira Katznelson
Stamped from the Beginning. Ibram X Kendi.
How to be an Anti-Racist. Ibram X Kendi.
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, From Furgeson to Flint and Beyond. Marc Lamont Hill
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Teacher Got Wrong. James Loewen.
Sister Outsider. Audre Lorde.
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, A Biomythography. Audre Lorde.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Summer We Got Free. Mia Mckenzie.
Dying of Whiteness: How The Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland. Jonathan Metzel.
Coming of Age in Mississippi. Anne Moody
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America. Darnell L. Moore.
Beloved. Toni Morrison.
The Bluest Eye. Toni Morrison
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Khalil Gilbran Muhammad
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Their Eyes Were Watching God. Zora Neale Hurston.
Half of a Yellow Sun. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Becoming. Michelle Obama.
So You Want To Talk About Race. Ijeoma Oluo
Since I Laid my Burden Down. Brontez Purnell.
Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America’s Campuses. Lawrence Ross.
The Color of Law. Richard Rothstein.
Me and White Supremacy. Layla F. Saad
Assata, an Autobiography. Assata Shakur.
Just Mercy. Bryan Stevenson
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Ronald Takaki.
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together In the Cafeteria? Beverly Daniel Tatum.
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Real Life. Brandon Taylor.
The Hate You Give. Angie Thomas.
In Search of Our Mothers Gardens. Alice Walker.
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America. Anders Walker.
The Warmth of Other Suns. Isabel Wilkerson
Native Son. Richard Wright.
A People’s History of the United States. Howard Zinn.