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Updated 6/16/20

Arthur Ashe: A Life Cover Image

Arthur Ashe: A Life (Paperback)

By Raymond Arsenault
$20.00
ISBN: 9781439189054
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Published: Simon & Schuster - August 20th, 2019
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves Cover Image

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (Hardcover)

By Glory Edim
$20.00
ISBN: 9780525619772
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Published: Ballantine Books - October 30th, 2018
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison Cover Image

The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison (Hardcover)

By Ralph Ellison, John F. Callahan (Editor), Marc C. Conner (Editor)
$50.00
ISBN: 9780812998528
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Published: Random House - December 3rd, 2019
Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream Cover Image

Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream (Hardcover)

By Blair Imani, Patrisse Cullors (Foreword by)
$18.99
ISBN: 9781984856920
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Published: Ten Speed Press - January 14th, 2020
Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For Cover Image

Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For (Hardcover)

By Susan Rice
$30.00
ISBN: 9781501189975
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Published: Simon & Schuster - October 8th, 2019
Great Society: A New History Cover Image

Great Society: A New History (Hardcover)

By Amity Shlaes
$32.50
ISBN: 9780061706424
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Published: Harper - November 19th, 2019
Black Boy (Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions) Cover Image

Black Boy (Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions) (Paperback)

By Richard Wright, John Edgar Wideman (Foreword by), Malcolm Wright (Afterword by)
$18.99
ISBN: 9780061443084
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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics - April 29th, 2008
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland Cover Image

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland (Paperback)

By Jonathan M. Metzl
$17.99
ISBN: 9781541644977
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Published: Basic Books - May 12th, 2020
The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America Cover Image

The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America (Hardcover)

By Nicholas Buccola
$29.95
ISBN: 9780691181547
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Published: Princeton University Press - October 1st, 2019
Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership Cover Image

Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership (Hardcover)

By Ed Gordon
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316532860
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Published: Hachette Books - January 14th, 2020
The End of Policing Cover Image

The End of Policing (Paperback)

By Alex S. Vitale
$17.95
ISBN: 9781784782924
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Published: Verso - August 28th, 2018
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers Cover Image

Your Black Friend and Other Strangers (Hardcover)

By Ben Passmore
$20.00
ISBN: 9781945509209
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Published: Silver Sprocket - April 15th, 2018
Prison Letters Cover Image

Prison Letters (Paperback)

By Nelson Mandela, Sahm Venter (Editor), Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela (Foreword by)
$17.95
ISBN: 9781631495960
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Published: Liveright - August 13th, 2019
Racism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Cover Image

Racism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) (Paperback)

By Ali Rattansi
$11.95
ISBN: 9780192805904
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - May 1st, 2007
The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave's Journey from Bondage to Freedom Cover Image

The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave's Journey from Bondage to Freedom (Paperback)

By David F. Walker, Damon Smyth (Illustrator), Marissa Louise (Illustrator)
$19.99
ISBN: 9780399581441
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Published: Ten Speed Press - January 8th, 2019
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America Cover Image

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Paperback)

By James Forman, Jr.
$17.00
ISBN: 9780374537449
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - February 6th, 2018
The Barefoot Woman Cover Image

The Barefoot Woman (Paperback)

By Scholastique Mukasonga, Jordan Stump (Translated by)
$16.00
ISBN: 9781939810045
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Published: Archipelago - December 18th, 2018
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons Cover Image

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons (Hardcover)

By Imani Perry
$18.00
ISBN: 9780807076552
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Published: Beacon Press - September 17th, 2019
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good Cover Image

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Paperback)

By William Easterly
$19.00
ISBN: 9780143038825
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Published: Penguin Books - February 27th, 2007
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Cover Image

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Paperback)

By Richard Rothstein
$17.95
ISBN: 9781631494536
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Published: Liveright - May 1st, 2018
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Cover Image

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Paperback)

By David W. Blight
$22.00
ISBN: 9781416590323
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Published: Simon & Schuster - January 7th, 2020
Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking: A Cookbook Cover Image

Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking: A Cookbook (Hardcover)

By Toni Tipton-Martin
$35.00
ISBN: 9781524761738
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Published: Clarkson Potter - November 5th, 2019
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (Vintage International) Cover Image

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By Toni Morrison
$16.95
ISBN: 9780525562795
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Published: Vintage - January 14th, 2020
Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents (Sunlight Editions) Cover Image

Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents (Sunlight Editions) (Paperback)

By Margaret Kimberley
$14.95
ISBN: 9781586422486
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Published: Truth to Power - February 4th, 2020
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Cover Image

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)

By Barack Obama
$18.00
ISBN: 9781400082773
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Published: Broadway Books - August 10th, 2004
Race Matters, 25th Anniversary: With a New Introduction Cover Image

Race Matters, 25th Anniversary: With a New Introduction (Paperback)

By Cornel West
$15.00
ISBN: 9780807008836
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Published: Beacon Press - December 5th, 2017
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir Cover Image

Men We Reaped: A Memoir (Paperback)

By Jesmyn Ward
$17.00
ISBN: 9781608197651
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Published: Bloomsbury USA - September 16th, 2014
African Americans of San Jose and Santa Clara County Cover Image

African Americans of San Jose and Santa Clara County (Paperback)

By Jan Batiste Adkins, Steven Milner (Foreword by)
$21.99
ISBN: 9781467102438
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Published: Arcadia Publishing (SC) - January 28th, 2019
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So You Want to Talk About Race Cover Image

So You Want to Talk About Race (Paperback)

By Ijeoma Oluo
$16.99
ISBN: 9781580058827
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Published: Seal Press - September 24th, 2019
Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City Cover Image

Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City (Hardcover)

By Wes Moore, Erica L. Green
$28.00
ISBN: 9780525512363
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Published: One World - June 23rd, 2020
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide Cover Image

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Paperback)

By Carol Anderson
$17.00
ISBN: 9781632864130
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Published: Bloomsbury USA - September 5th, 2017
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Cover Image

The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market)

By MALCOLM X
$7.99
ISBN: 9780345350688
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Published: Ballantine Books - October 12th, 1987
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Cover Image

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Paperback)

By Ibram X. Kendi
$19.99
ISBN: 9781568585987
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Published: Bold Type Books - August 15th, 2017
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race Cover Image

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race (Paperback)

By Jesmyn Ward
$16.00
ISBN: 9781501126352
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Published: Scribner - June 20th, 2017
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy Cover Image

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Paperback)

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
$18.00
ISBN: 9780399590573
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Published: One World - October 30th, 2018
All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation) Cover Image

All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation) (Paperback)

By bell hooks
$15.99
ISBN: 9780060959470
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - January 30th, 2018
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color Cover Image

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Paperback)

By Andrea Ritchie, Angela Y. Davis (Foreword by)
$21.00
ISBN: 9780807088982
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Published: Beacon Press - August 1st, 2017
Between the World and Me Cover Image

Between the World and Me (Hardcover)

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
$26.00
ISBN: 9780812993547
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Published: One World - July 14th, 2015
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Cover Image

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Paperback)

By Bryan Stevenson
$17.00
ISBN: 9780812984965
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Published: One World - August 18th, 2015
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies Cover Image

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies (Paperback)

By Resmaa Menakem
$17.95
ISBN: 9781942094470
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Published: Central Recovery Press - September 19th, 2017
How to Be an Antiracist Cover Image

How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)

By Ibram X. Kendi
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525509288
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Published: One World - August 13th, 2019
Citizen: An American Lyric Cover Image

Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)

By Claudia Rankine
$20.00
ISBN: 9781555976903
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Published: Graywolf Press - October 7th, 2014
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Cover Image

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Paperback)

By Michelle Alexander
$18.99
ISBN: 9781620971932
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Published: New Press - January 7th, 2020
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International) Cover Image

The Fire Next Time (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By James Baldwin
$13.95
ISBN: 9780679744726
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Published: Vintage - December 1st, 1992
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Cover Image

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Paperback)

By Isabel Wilkerson
$17.95
ISBN: 9780679763888
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Published: Vintage - October 4th, 2011
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism Cover Image

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Paperback)

By Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by)
$16.00
ISBN: 9780807047415
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Published: Beacon Press - June 26th, 2018
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century Cover Image

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)

By Dorothy Roberts
$19.95
ISBN: 9781595588340
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Published: New Press - September 4th, 2012
West Indian Immigrants: A Black Success Story? Cover Image

West Indian Immigrants: A Black Success Story? (Paperback)

By Suzanne Model
$45.44
ISBN: 9780871546753
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Published: Russell Sage Foundation - January 4th, 2011
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, with a New Preface Cover Image

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, with a New Preface (Paperback)

By Khalil Gibran Muhammad
$15.95
ISBN: 9780674238145
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Published: Harvard University Press - July 22nd, 2019
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Cover Image

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)

By Audre Lorde, Cheryl Clarke (Foreword by)
$16.99
ISBN: 9781580911863
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Published: Crossing Press - August 1st, 2007
The Souls of Black Folk: With

The Souls of Black Folk: With "The Talented Tenth" and "The Souls of White Folk" (Paperback)

By W. E. B. Du Bois, Ibram X. Kendi (Introduction by), Monica E. Elbert (Notes by)
$14.00
ISBN: 9780140189988
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Published: Penguin Classics - April 1st, 1996
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race Cover Image

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Paperback)

By Reni Eddo-Lodge
$18.00
ISBN: 9781635572957
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - March 5th, 2019
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul Cover Image

Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul (Paperback)

By Eddie S. Glaude
$17.00
ISBN: 9780804137430
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Published: Broadway Books - January 10th, 2017
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot Cover Image

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)

By Mikki Kendall
$26.00
ISBN: 9780525560548
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Published: Viking - February 25th, 2020
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A People's History of the United States Cover Image

A People's History of the United States (Paperback)

By Howard Zinn
$21.99
ISBN: 9780062397348
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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics - November 17th, 2015
Chokehold: Policing Black Men Cover Image

Chokehold: Policing Black Men (Hardcover)

By Paul Butler
$27.95
ISBN: 9781595589057
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Published: New Press - July 11th, 2017
The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing Cover Image

The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing (Paperback)

By Anneliese A. Singh, Tim Wise (Foreword by), Derald Wing Sue (Afterword by)
$24.95
ISBN: 9781684032709
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Published: New Harbinger Publications - August 1st, 2019
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Cover Image

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (Paperback)

By Roxane Gay
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062420718
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Published: Harper Perennial - June 12th, 2018
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir Cover Image

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Paperback)

By Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele
$16.99
ISBN: 9781250306906
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - January 14th, 2020
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Cover Image

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Paperback)

By Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780812980028
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - April 21st, 2009