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They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Ahed Tamimi, Dena Takruri
Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates the daily struggles of life under occupation in this moving, deeply personal memoir.“What would you do if you grew up seeing your home repeatedly raided? Your parents arrested? Your mother shot? Your uncle killed? Try, for just a moment, to imagine that this was your life... -
![21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph]()
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsBased on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous Peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity trainer...Categorized as:
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![Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny, Алексей Навальный]()
Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny, Алексей Навальный
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs.Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020... -
![Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga]()
Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Black and British, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga offers readers a rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa...Categorized as:
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![Nicht gemeldete Wahrheiten über COVID-19 und Lockdowns: Teil 2: Update und Untersuchung von Lockdowns als Strategie by Alex Berenson]()
Nicht gemeldete Wahrheiten über COVID-19 und Lockdowns: Teil 2: Update und Untersuchung von Lockdowns als Strategie by Alex Berenson
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![Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd]()
Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani’s Palestinian Resistance Literature...Categorized as:
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![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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![We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina L. Love]()
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina L. Love
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDrawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists... -
![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... -
![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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![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... -
![They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima]()
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThey Came Before Columbus reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in ancient America... -
![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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![When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry by LeAnne Howe, Jennifer Elise Foerster]()
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry by LeAnne Howe, Jennifer Elise Foerster
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsUnited States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology.This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries...Categorized as:
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![The January Children by Safia Elhillo, Kwame Dawes]()
The January Children by Safia Elhillo, Kwame Dawes
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, “The January Children are the generation born in Sudan under British occupation, where children were assigned birth years by height, all given the birth date January 1.” What follows is a deeply personal collection of poems that describe the experience of navigating the postcolonial world as a stranger in one’s own land... -
![Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove]()
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital... -
![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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![The Children by David Halberstam]()
The Children by David Halberstam
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Children is Halberstam's moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen thru the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 60s & went on to lead the revolution... -
![Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes]()
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHow two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life”In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century... -
![Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History by Edmund Metatawabin, Alexandra Shimo]()
Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History by Edmund Metatawabin, Alexandra Shimo
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA powerful, raw yet eloquent memoir from a residential school survivor and former First Nations Chief, Up Ghost River is a necessary step toward our collective healing. In the 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of Canada’s worst residential schools. St... -
![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... -
![Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy by Gholdy Muhammad]()
Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy by Gholdy Muhammad
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy E. Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework—one that is grounded in history and restores excellence in literacy education. This framework, which she names, Historically Responsive Literacy, was derived from the study of literacy development within 19th-century Black literacy societies... -
![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... -
![Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good]()
Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratings#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST for the Writers’ Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy A bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada. With authority and insight, Truth Telling examines a wide range of Indigenous issues framed by Michelle Good’s personal experience and knowledge...Categorized as:
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![What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition by Emma Dabiri]()
What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition by Emma Dabiri
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER In the spirit of We Should All Be Feminists and How to Be an Antiracist, a poignant and sensible guide to questioning the meaning of whiteness and creating an antiracist world from the acclaimed historian and author of Twisted... -
![Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta]()
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schrödinger’s cat.Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently?Sand Talk provides a template for living...Categorized as:
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![Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins]()
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe...Categorized as:
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![Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch]()
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain todayYou’re British.Your parents are British.Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British.So why do people keep asking where you’re from?We are a nation in denial about our imperial past and the racism that plagues our present...Categorized as:
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![Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Lynn Hammond, Yvette Jackson]()
Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Lynn Hammond, Yvette Jackson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instructionThe achievement gap remains a stubborn problem for educators of culturally and linguistically diverse students... -
![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...
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