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Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA searing volume by a poet whose work conveys “the visceral effect that prison has on identity” (New York Times).Felon tells the story of one man in fierce, dazzling poems― canvassing his wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace― and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life... -
![Trust Me by Farrah Rochon]()
Trust Me by Farrah Rochon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTrust doesn't always come easy... As the maverick of the New Orleans City Council, Mackenna Arnold has spent the last four years dismantling the council’s “politics as usual” mentality. Never one to shy away from a challenge, Mack now has her sights set on an even bigger prize: the mayor’s office. But only when the time is right... -
![Thousand Star Hotel by Bao Phi]()
Thousand Star Hotel by Bao Phi
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThousand Star Hotel confronts the silence around racism, police brutality, and the invisibility of the Asian American urban poor.From “with thanks to Sahra Nguyen for the refugee style slogan”:They give the kids candy to bet.My daughter loses the first four rounds,she’s a quiet wire as they take her candy away, piece by piece.When she finally wins, I ask if she wants to play again...Categorized as:
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![Honeysmoke: A Story of Finding Your Color by Monique Fields]()
Honeysmoke: A Story of Finding Your Color by Monique Fields
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA young biracial girl looks around her world for her color. She finally chooses her own, and creates a new word for herself—honeysmoke.For multiracial children, and all children everywhere, this picture book offers a universal message that empowers young people to create their own self-identity...Categorized as:
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![Kneel by Candace Buford]()
Kneel by Candace Buford
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe system is rigged.For guys like Russell Boudreaux, football is the only way out of their small town. As the team’s varsity tight end, Rus has a singular goal: to get a scholarship and play on the national stage. But when his best friend is unfairly arrested and kicked off the team, Rus faces an impossible choice: speak up or live in fear.“Please rise for the national anthem... -
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Ironopolis by Glen James Brown
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsStranded on the outskirts of Ironopolis — nickname to a lost industrial Middlesbrough — the Burn Council Estate is about to be torn down to make way for regeneration. For the future .. -
![Pastor Needs a Boo by Michele Andrea Bowen]()
Pastor Needs a Boo by Michele Andrea Bowen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMichele Andrea Bowen made a name for herself years ago during the African-American inspirational fiction craze. Now, in Pastor Needs a Boo, she’s back with an amazing journey of faith, drama, and love... -
![Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? by Junauda Petrus]()
Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? by Junauda Petrus
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBased on the viral poem by Coretta Scott King honoree Junauda Petrus, this picture book debut imagines a radically positive future where police aren’t in charge of public safety and community well-being.Petrus first published and performed this poem after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014...Categorized as:
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![Highwire Moon by Susan Straight]()
Highwire Moon by Susan Straight
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSerafina is an illegal migrant worker living in California when the police catch her and send her back to Mexico–without her three-year old daughter. Twelve years later, with a pair of silver barrettes her only tangible memory of Elvia, Serafina begins a harrowing journey back across the border to find her daughter...Categorized as:
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Big Chief by Jon Hickey
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThere There meets The Night Watchman in this gripping literary debut about power and corruption, family, and facing the ghosts of the past.Mitch Caddo, a young law school graduate and aspiring political fixer, is an outsider in the homeland of his Anishinaabe ancestors...Categorized as:
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![What Makes Us by Rafi Mittlefehldt]()
What Makes Us by Rafi Mittlefehldt
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA viral video reveals a teen’s dark family history, leaving him to reckon with his heritage, legacy, and identity in this fiery, conversation-starting novel.Eran Sharon knows nothing of his father except that he left when Eran was a baby...Categorized as:
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![The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee]()
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA powerful new exploration about the self-destructive bargain of white supremacy and its rising cost to all of us--including white people--from one of today's most insightful and influential thinkers.Heather C. McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public...Categorized as:
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![Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala]()
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist teachers - race and class have shaped Akala's life and outlook. In this unique book he takes his own experiences and widens them out to look at the social, historical and political factors that have left us where we are today...Categorized as:
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![Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha]()
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWinner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative AwardFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in PoetryThese poems emerge directly from the experience of growing up and living one’s entire life in Gaza, making a life for one’s family and raising a family in constant lockdown, and often under direct attack...Categorized as:
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![The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickel]()
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickel
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 15 ratings‘There’s no understanding global inequality without understanding its history. In The Divide, Jason Hickel brilliantly lays it out, layer upon layer, until you are left reeling with the outrage of it all.’ - Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut EconomicsFor decades we have been told a story about the divide between rich countries and poor countries...Categorized as:
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![White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad]()
White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFor readers of White Fragility, White Tears/Brown Scars is an explosive book of history and cultural criticism that argues that white feminism, from Australia to Zimbabwe to the United States, has been a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against black and indigenous women, and women of color...Categorized as:
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![We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman, Erin Bennett]()
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman, Erin Bennett
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsReminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight...Categorized as:
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![Counting Descent by Clint Smith]()
Counting Descent by Clint Smith
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsClint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition. Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that results from belonging to a community that unapologetically celebrates black humanity while living in a world that often renders blackness a caricature of fear...Categorized as:
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![Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon]()
Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBeyond the Gender Binary, spoken word poet Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not in black and white, but in full color. Taking from their own experiences as a gender-nonconforming artist, they show us that gender is a malleable and creative form of expression. The only limit is your imagination... -
![Go Ahead In The Rain by Hanif Abdurraqib]()
Go Ahead In The Rain by Hanif Abdurraqib
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHow does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with an intense, socially conscious record, We Got It from Here . .Categorized as:
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![Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom]()
Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDNamed a notable book of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review , Chicago Tribune , Time , and The GuardianAs featured by The Daily Show , NPR , PBS , CBC , Time , VIBE , Entertainment Weekly , Well-Read Black Girl , and Chris Hayes, "incisive, witty, and provocative essays" ( Publishers Weekly ) by one of the "most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and... -
![The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole]()
The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA bracing, provocative, and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's most celebrated and uncompromising writers, Desmond Cole. The Skin We're In will spark a national conversation, influence policy, and inspire activists...Categorized as:
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![We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates]()
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 26 ratings"We were eight years in power" was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South...Categorized as:
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![Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho]()
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 26 ratings“You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have.” So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide to the truths Americans need to know to address the systemic racism that has recently electrified protests in all fifty states. “There is a fix,” Acho says. “But in order to access it, we’re going to have to have some uncomfortable conversations...Categorized as:
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![The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib]()
The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Crown Ain't Worth Much, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib's first full-length collection, is a sharp and vulnerable portrayal of city life in the United States. A regular columnist for MTV.com, Willis-Abdurraqib brings his interest in pop culture to these poems, analyzing race, gender, family, and the love that finally holds us together even as it threatens to break us...Categorized as:
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![Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses]()
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA groundbreaking resource for fiction writers, teachers, and students, this manifesto and practical guide challenges current models of craft and the writing workshop by showing how they fail marginalized writers, and how cultural expectations inform storytelling... -
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsFrom award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human... -
![Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd]()
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPerfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation.Palestine is a microcosm of the on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified...Categorized as:
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![Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson]()
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe“A vibrant, and essential history of America's unending, enraging and utterly compelling struggle since its founding to live up to its own best ideals… It's both a cause for hope, and a call to arms...Categorized as:
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![Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum]()
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWalk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups...Categorized as:
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