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Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America
When George Yancy penned a New York Times op-ed entitled “Dear White America” asking white Americans to confront the ways that they benefit from racism, he knew his article would be controversial. But he was unprepared for the flood of...
$19.95
The World Doesn't Require You: Stories
Finalist • PEN / Jean Stein Book Award Longlisted • Aspen Words Literary Prize Best Books of the Year: Washington Post, NPR, Buzzfeed and Entropy Best Short Story Collections of the Year: Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, the New York Public...
$25.95
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable
A version for Young Adults is also available.
Michael Bennett is a Super Bowl Champion, a three-time Pro Bowl defensive end, a fearless activist, a feminist, a grassroots philanthropist, an organizer, and a change maker.
$24.95
Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field
A bold and impassioned meditation on injustice in our country that punctures the illusion of a postracial America and reveals it as a place where authoritarianism looms large. Whether the issues are protest, labor, patriotism, or class division, it is...
$24.95
Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America
From a national political commentator and New York Times bestselling author, an analysis of America's burning race crisis and the incomplete efforts in the past two decades -- by social movements and political leaders -- to address it, offering a...
$28.00
Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It
$25.00
Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It
Many thought the election of our first African American president put an end to the conversation about race in this country, and that America had moved into a post–racial era of equality and opportunity. Then, on the night of February...
$25.00
Passage
In [Lazarre-White's] world, mysticism and madness walk hand in hand with the waking reality of so many young Black men in America, a reality that by any rational measure is itself insane." --Susan L. Taylor
$23.95
Red Was the Midnight
Red Was the Midnight, is a riveting novel that intertwines the imaginative story of a striving “colored” family—three sisters and a brother—with an account of an actual race riot that roiled Atlanta for four days in September, 1906.
$13.00
Some of My Friends Are...: The Daunting Challenges and Untapped Benefits of Cross-Racial Friendships
$25.95
Some of My Friends Are...: The Daunting Challenges and Untapped Benefits of Cross-Racial Friendships
An insightful look at how cross-racial friendships work and fail within American society.In a U.S. national survey conducted for this book, 70% of respondents strongly agreed that friendships across racial lines are essential to making progress toward improving race relations.
$25.95
Hands Up, Don't Shoot: Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter, and How They Changed America
Understanding the explosive protests over police killings and the legacy of racismFollowing the high-profile deaths of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, both cities erupted in.....
$89.00
Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World
The author of The Butler and Showdown examines 100 years of Black movies--using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism to explore Black culture and the civil rights movement in America.
$30.00
How Are You Going to Save Yourself
Four young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut "as up-to the-minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale"...
$15.99
Cane River
A New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick-the unique and deeply moving saga of four generations of African-American women whose journey from slavery to freedom begins on a Creole plantation in Louisiana. Product details Publisher : Warner Books; Oprah's...
$16.99
We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility
In the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means—and how we take steps to get there.“In the United States, being poor and Black makes you more likely to get sick....
$40.00
Brown Girl, Brownstones (Reprint)
Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, Brown Girl, Brownstones is the enduring story of a most extraordinary young woman. Selina Boyce, the daughter of Barbadian immigrants, is caught between the struggles of her hard-working, ambitious mother,...
$18.95
Black Card
In this NPR Best Book of the Year, a mixed–race punk rock musician must face the real dangers of being Black in America in this “wise meditation on race, authenticity, and belonging” (Nylon).Chris L. Terry’s Black Card is an uncompromising...
$20.00
It's Time to Talk (and Listen): How to Have Constructive Conversations about Race, Class, Sexuality, Ability & Gender in a Polarized World
Conversations about controversial topics can be difficult, painful, and emotionally charged. This user-friendly guide will help you engage in effective, compassionate discussions with family, friends, colleagues, and even strangers about race, immigration, gender, marriage equality, sexism, marginalization, and more.
$16.95
The Travelers
“American history comes to vivid, engaging life in this tale of two interconnected families (one white, one black) that spans from the 1950s to Barack Obama’s first year as president. . . . The complex, beautifully drawn characters are unique...
$27.00
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement
$27.00
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement
A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of...
$27.00
The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement
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The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement
During his 28-year career, Matthew Horace rose through the ranks from a police officer working the beat to a federal agent working criminal cases in some of the toughest communities in America to a highly decorated federal law enforcement executive...
$27.00
Stay Woke: A People's Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter
The essential guide to understanding how racism works and how racial inequality shapes black lives, ultimately offering a road-map for resistance for racial justice advocates and antiracists
$89.00
Black Lives Matter at School
Black Lives Matter at School is an essential resource for all those seeking to build an antiracist school system." —Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Product details Publisher : Haymarket Books (December 8, 2020)...
$50.00
Healing Racial Divides: Finding Strength in Our Diversity
“Carter’s wise work will compel white Christian readers to engage in race relations in a more up-front, graceful, and honest manner." —Publishers Weekly
$19.99
Busted in New York and Other Essays
A collection of essays that blend the personal and the social, from the celebrated literary critic and novelist In these twenty-five essays, Darryl Pinckney has given us a view of our recent racial history that blends the social and the...
$30.00
They Come in All Colors
2019 First Novelist Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library AssociationMalcolm Hansen arrives on the scene as a bold new literary voice with his stunning debut novel. Alternating between the Deep South and New York City ....
$17.00
The Known World
From Edward P. Jones comes one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory—winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
$24.95
The Book of Night Women
The Book of Night Women is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the 18th...
$28.00
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is “a bracing corrective to a national mythology” (New York Times) around the civil rights movement. Product details Publisher : Beacon Press (January...
$28.00
A History of Black Americans
This book recounts the history of the American Negro from the days of the African slave trade and the arrival of Negroes in the United States to the 1970's when blacks still face many problems with a new introduction. Product...
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