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by Michelle Alexander
Nonfiction
Alexander’s searing indictment of our criminal justice system argues that ‘we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it,’ motivating a whole new generation of racial justice activists.
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by Cathy Park Hong
Nonfiction
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively confronts the thorny subject of Asian American status in the United States, blending memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America.
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by Heather McGhee
Nonfiction
A political strategist argues that our nation’s financial woes—including unemployment, rising student debt and collapsing public infrastructure—are directly related to racism, affecting both Blacks and Whites. In places of worship and work, McGhee finds proof of what she calls the Solidarity Dividend: when people come together across race, we can accomplish so much more.
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by Sybrina Fulton & Tracy Martin
Nonfiction
Years after his tragic death, we are haunted by his name and his iconic photo as a child in a hoodie with a steady gaze. But how did one boy’s death on a dark, rainy street in Florida become the match that lit a civil rights crusade? Who was he, really?
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by Matthew Desmond
Nonfiction
A sociologist and MacArthur Fellow takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the stories of eight families teetering on the brink of homelessness, one of the most urgent issues facing America today.
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by Harriet A. Washington
Nonfiction
What does environmentalism have to do with social justice and academic achievement? From injuries caused by lead poisoning to the devastating effects of atmospheric pollution, infectious disease, and industrial waste, Americans of color are harmed by environmental hazards in staggeringly disproportionate numbers.
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by Bryan Stevenson
Nonfiction
The director and founder of a social advocacy group that aids condemned prisoners explains why justice and mercy must go hand-in-hand by telling the story of an innocent man condemned to death row.
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by Dee Brown
Nonfiction
First published in 1970, this classic bestseller generated shockwaves with its depiction of the systematic annihilation of America’s indigenous peoples, focusing on the betrayals, battles, and massacres of Native Americans between 1860 and 1890; quite another look at how the West was won.
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by Patrisse Cullors
Nonfiction
The poetic memoir of a Black woman who grew up as the daughter of a single mother in an impoverished L.A. neighborhood and co-founded the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013 after Trayvon Martin’s killer went free.
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by James Baldwin
Nonfiction
A national bestseller upon publication in 1963, this classic book galvanized the nation, gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement—and still sheds light on race relations in America today.
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by Erika Lee
Nonfiction
A history of Asian-Americans’ deep roots on this continent, from the 1500s with sailors on the first trans-Pacific ships; indentured “coolies” in the Caribbean; the wide variety of Asian immigrants recruited to work in the United States who faced Asian exclusion laws, America’s Japanese internment camps in World War II, to the myth of “model minorities.”
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by Isabel Wilkerson
Nonfiction
The author of “The Warmth of Other Suns” examines the unspoken system of hierarches that has shaped America and compares race relations in the U.S. to the caste system of India and the plight of Jews in Nazi Germany.
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by Richard Rothstein
Nonfiction
A housing policy expert explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially segregated through the random choices of individuals and private banks; instead, local, state, and federal governments intentionally promoted segregationist housing patterns that persist to this day.
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by David Grann
Nonfiction
When oil was discovered on the Osage Nation’s lands in Oklahoma in the 1920s, they became the richest people per capita in the world…until they began to be killed off. The newly created FBI took up the case, exposing a chilling conspiracy.
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