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To help us become better allies, and to better educate ourselves on the systemic and historical injustices that have perpetuated the need for today's Black Lives Matter movement, we've compiled a list of recommended books. We're just scratching the surface on what's out there, but all of the titles listed are in stock or available to order.

 

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
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
The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom Cover Image

The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom (Paperback)

By William Still, Ta-Nehisi Coates (Introduction by), Quincy T. Mills (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781984855053
Availability: Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Published: Modern Library - September 24th, 2019
White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination Cover Image

White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination (Paperback)

By Jess Row
$16.00
ISBN: 9781555978327
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Published: Graywolf Press - August 6th, 2019
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness Cover Image

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)

By Austin Channing Brown
$25.00
ISBN: 9781524760854
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Published: Convergent Books - May 15th, 2018
Afropessimism Cover Image

Afropessimism (Hardcover)

By III Wilderson, Frank B.
$29.95
ISBN: 9781631496141
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Published: Liveright - April 7th, 2020
Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race Cover Image

Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race (Hardcover)

By Thomas Chatterton Williams
$25.95
ISBN: 9780393608861
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - October 15th, 2019
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases Cover Image

Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (Hardcover)

By Michael Chabon (Editor), Ayelet Waldman (Editor), Dave Cole (Foreword by), Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jacqueline woodson, Ann Patchett, Brit Bennett, Steven Okazaki, David Handler, Geraldine Brooks, Yaa Gyasi, Sergio De La Pava, Dave Eggers, Timothy Egan, Li Yiyun, Meg Wolitzer, Hector Tobar, Aleksandar Hemon, Elizabeth Strout, Rabih Alameddine, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Jonathan Lethem, Salman Rushdie, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Egan, Scott Turow, Morgan Parker, Victor Lavalle, Michael Cunningham, Neil Gaiman, Jesmyn Ward, Moses Sumney, George Saunders, Marlon James, William Finnegan, Anthony Doerr, C.J. Anders, Brenda J. Childs, Andrew Sean Greer, Louise Erdrich, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
$27.00
ISBN: 9781501190407
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Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - January 21st, 2020
Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America Cover Image

Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America (Hardcover)

By Stacey Abrams
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250257703
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Published: Henry Holt and Co. - June 9th, 2020
The Blood of Emmett Till Cover Image

The Blood of Emmett Till (Paperback)

By Timothy B. Tyson
$17.00
ISBN: 9781476714851
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Published: Simon & Schuster - December 5th, 2017
Heavy: An American Memoir Cover Image

Heavy: An American Memoir (Paperback)

By Kiese Laymon
$16.00
ISBN: 9781501125669
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Published: Scribner - March 5th, 2019
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 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 (Paperback)

By Nicholas Buccola
$18.95
ISBN: 9780691210773
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Published: Princeton University Press - September 1st, 2020
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope Cover Image

His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope (Hardcover)

By Jon Meacham, John Lewis (Afterword by)
$30.00
ISBN: 9781984855022
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Published: Random House - August 25th, 2020
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own Cover Image

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own (Hardcover)

By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525575320
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Published: Crown - June 30th, 2020
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
Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation Cover Image

Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation (Paperback)

By Rev. angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens, Jasmine Syedullah, Ph.D.
$12.95
ISBN: 9781623170981
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Published: North Atlantic Books - June 14th, 2016
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
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race Cover Image

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race (Paperback)

By Beverly Daniel Tatum
$18.99
ISBN: 9780465060689
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Published: Basic Books - September 5th, 2017
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain Cover Image

You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain (Paperback)

By Phoebe Robinson, Jessica Williams (Foreword by)
$16.00
ISBN: 9780143129202
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Published: Plume - October 4th, 2016
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
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America Cover Image

Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America (Paperback)

By Jennifer Harvey
$18.99
ISBN: 9781501878077
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Published: Abingdon Press - February 5th, 2019
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
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays Cover Image

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays (Paperback)

By Damon Young
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062684318
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Published: Ecco - January 14th, 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 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
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide Cover Image

How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide (Paperback)

By Crystal Marie Fleming
$14.95
ISBN: 9780807039847
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Published: Beacon Press - August 20th, 2019
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
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
Between the World and Me Cover Image

Between the World and Me (Hardcover)

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
$26.00
ISBN: 9780812993547
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: One World - July 14th, 2015
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor Cover Image

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)

By Layla Saad, Robin Diangelo (Foreword by)
$25.99
ISBN: 9781728209807
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Published: Sourcebooks - January 1st, 2020
The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom Cover Image

The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom (Paperback)

By William Still, Ta-Nehisi Coates (Introduction by), Quincy T. Mills (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781984855053
Availability: Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Published: Modern Library - September 24th, 2019
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
An African American and Latinx History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY #4) Cover Image

An African American and Latinx History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY #4) (Paperback)

By Paul Ortiz
$16.00
ISBN: 9780807005934
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Published: Beacon Press - December 11th, 2018
March: Book One Cover Image

March: Book One (Paperback)

By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell (Illustrator)
$14.95
ISBN: 9781603093002
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Published: Top Shelf Productions - August 13th, 2013
The Bluest Eye (Vintage International) Cover Image

The Bluest Eye (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By Toni Morrison
$14.95
ISBN: 9780307278449
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Published: Vintage - May 8th, 2007
Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime Cover Image

Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime (Paperback)

By Ron Stallworth
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250299055
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Published: Flatiron Books - July 31st, 2018
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power Cover Image

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power (Hardcover)

By Deirdre Mask
$26.99
ISBN: 9781250134769
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Published: St. Martin's Press - April 14th, 2020
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower Cover Image

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (Paperback)

By Brittney Cooper
$18.00
ISBN: 9781250112880
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Published: Picador - March 5th, 2019
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia Cover Image

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Paperback)

By Sabrina Strings
$33.60
ISBN: 9781479886753
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Published: New York University Press - May 7th, 2019
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
They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of the Struggle for Black Lives Cover Image

They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of the Struggle for Black Lives (Paperback)

By Wesley Lowery
$17.99
ISBN: 9780316312493
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Published: Back Bay Books - September 12th, 2017
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice) Cover Image

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice) (Hardcover)

By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
$30.00
ISBN: 9781469653662
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Published: University of North Carolina Press - October 21st, 2019
Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England Cover Image

Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England (Paperback)

By Jared Hardesty
$22.95
ISBN: 9781625344571
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Published: Bright Leaf - August 15th, 2019
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics Cover Image

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics (Paperback)

By George Lipsitz
$32.95
ISBN: 9781439916391
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Published: Temple University Press - July 13th, 2018
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Cover Image

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)

By James W. Loewen
$17.99
ISBN: 9781620973929
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Published: New Press - July 17th, 2018
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America Cover Image

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America (Paperback)

By Ira Katznelson
$17.95
ISBN: 9780393328516
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - August 17th, 2006
The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power Cover Image

The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power (Hardcover)

By Desmond Cole
$22.95
ISBN: 9780385686341
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Published: Doubleday Canada - January 28th, 2020
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
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present Cover Image

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present (Paperback)

By David Treuer
$17.00
ISBN: 9780399573194
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Published: Riverhead Books - November 5th, 2019
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY #3) Cover Image

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY #3) (Paperback)

By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
$16.00
ISBN: 9780807057834
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Published: Beacon Press - August 11th, 2015
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Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents Cover Image

Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)

By Isabel Wilkerson
$32.00
ISBN: 9780593230251
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Published: Random House - August 4th, 2020