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Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump, the vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, and a warning that the forces of autocracy unleashed by Trump remain as potent as ever... -
![Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller]()
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical resource—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in conflict.You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips... -
![Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen by Alice Hasters]()
Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen by Alice Hasters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratings„Aber wo kommst du wirklich her?“, „Darf ich deine Haare anfassen?“ und „Schokobabys sind so niedlich“ – rassistische Gedanken sitzen tief. Darüber müssen wir reden. Alice Hasters beschreibt, was es bedeutet, heute als schwarze Frau in Deutschland zu leben...Categorized as:
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![Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods by Otegha Uwagba]()
Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods by Otegha Uwagba
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this powerful and timely personal essay, best-selling author Otegha Uwagba reflects on racism, whiteness, and the mental labour required of Black people to navigate the two... -
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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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![Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang]()
Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEssays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing.What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the creation of living hells... -
![Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates]()
Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Get your daughters to read this, but only after your partners and sons have finished it’ Jo Brand'An astute and persuasive page-turner' Observer'A blistering manifesto for change' Dr Pragya Agarwal_____________________________________________________Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table... -
![Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance by Jesse Wente]()
Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance by Jesse Wente
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER of the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-FictionSHORTLISTED for the 2023 Speaker's Book AwardA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR" Unreconciled is one hell of a good book. Jesse Wente’s narrative moves effortlessly from the personal to the historical to the contemporary. Very powerful, and a joy to read...Categorized as:
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![Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power by Lola Olufemi]()
Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power by Lola Olufemi
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMore than just a slogan on a t-shirt, feminism is a radical tool for fighting back against structural violence and injustice. Feminism, Interrupted is a bold call to seize feminism back from the cultural gatekeepers and return it to its radical roots... -
![Real American: A Memoir by Julie Lythcott-Haims]()
Real American: A Memoir by Julie Lythcott-Haims
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA fearless debut memoir in which beloved and bestselling How to Raise an Adult author Julie Lythcott-Haims pulls no punches in her recollections of growing up a biracial black woman in America... -
![Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman]()
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChoice Reviews , Outstanding Academic TitleIn 1920, 14 percent of all land-owning US farmers were black. Today less than 2 percent of farms are controlled by black people--a loss of over 14 million acres and the result of discrimination and dispossession...Categorized as:
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![Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken]()
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here—some are well known; some you may have never heard of... -
![Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide by Daniel Hunter]()
Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide by Daniel Hunter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsExpanding on the call to action in Michelle Alexander's acclaimed best-seller, The New Jim Crow, this accessible organizing guide puts tools in your hands to help you and your group understand how to make meaningful, effective change... -
![Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought by Beverly Guy-Sheftall]()
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe first comprehensive collection to trace the development of African-American feminist thought...Categorized as:
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![You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix]()
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign―ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America.It’s one of the iconic photographs of American A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963... -
![Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson]()
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that downplay the significance of black people and black communities as agents of change and resistance... -
![The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates]()
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![Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy by April Baker-Bell]()
Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy by April Baker-Bell
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBringing together theory, research, and practice to dismantle Anti-Black Linguistic Racism and white linguistic supremacy, this book provides ethnographic snapshots of how Black students navigate and negotiate their linguistic and racial identities across multiple contexts...Categorized as:
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![African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song by Kevin Young]()
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song by Kevin Young
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the presentOnly now, in the 21st century, can we fully grasp the breadth and range of African American poetry: a magnificent chorus of voices, some familiar, others recently rescued from neglect... -
![Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider by Charles Person, Richard Rooker]()
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider by Charles Person, Richard Rooker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward--written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers.At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans...Categorized as:
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![We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America by D. Watkins]()
We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America by D. Watkins
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe critically lauded author of The Beast Side and The Cook Up returns with an existential look at life in low-income black communities, while also offering a new framework for how we can improve the conversations occurring about them. While author D... -
![Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights by Steven Levingston]()
Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights by Steven Levingston
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKennedy and King traces the emergence of two of the twentieth century's greatest leaders, their powerful impact on each other and on the shape of the civil rights battle between 1960 and 1963. These two men from starkly different worlds profoundly influenced each other's personal development...Categorized as:
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![Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods by Shawn Wilson]()
Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods by Shawn Wilson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIndigenous researchers are knowledge seekers who work to progress Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing in a modern and constantly evolving context. This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put into practice. Relationships don’t just shape Indigenous reality, they are our reality... -
![Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew]()
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are the real experts when it comes to technology and disability.When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described “hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn’s disease and tinnitus,” there was no returning to “normal...Categorized as:
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![Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal]()
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn December 1981, independent journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal was shot and then beaten into unconsciousness by Philadelphia police. He awoke to find himself shackled to a hospital bed, accused of killing a cop... -
![A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle]()
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne of The Washington Post 's 10 Best Books of the Year"A remarkable book...indispensable."-- The Boston Globe"A sweeping, deeply reported tale of international migration...DeParle's understanding of migration is refreshingly clear-eyed and nuanced." --The New York Times"This is epic reporting, nonfiction on a whole other level...One of the best books on immigration written in a generation...Categorized as:
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![Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Toshio Meronek, Major Griffin-Gracy]()
Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Toshio Meronek, Major Griffin-Gracy
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratings2024 Stonewall Honor Award for NonfictionThe future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who has survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, Attica Prison, the HIV/AIDS crisis and a world that white supremacy has built... -
![After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America by Jessica Goudeau]()
After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America by Jessica Goudeau
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSimply brilliant, both in its granular storytelling and its enormous compassion --The New York Times Book Review The story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to survive and belong in AmericaThe welcoming and acceptance of immigrants and refugees have been central to America's identity for centuries--yet America has periodically turned its back in times of the...Categorized as:
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![When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by Paula J. Giddings]()
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by Paula J. Giddings
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen and Where I Enter is an eloquent testimonial to the profound influence of African-American women on race and women's movements throughout American history... -
![Teaching Community by bell hooks]()
Teaching Community by bell hooks
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTen years ago, bell hooks astonished readers with Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom . Now comes Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope - a powerful, visionary work that will enrich our teaching and our lives...Categorized as:
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