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How To Be An Antiracist

Via Ibram X. Kendi. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a refreshing approach that will radically reorient America on the urgent issues of race, justice, and equality. How To Be An Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi’s concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice … Read More

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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

Via Macmillian.  Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower ELOQUENT RAGE A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower BRITTNEY COOPER    “Brittney Cooper is a national treasure. This book is just so good.” —Rebecca Traister “Rigorous, honest, heartfelt, compassionate, and challenging.” —Mychal Denzel Smith “I was waiting for an author who wouldn’t forget, ignore, or erase us black … Read More

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Black Feminist Thought

Via Google Books.  Black Feminist Thought Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment By Patricia Hill Collins 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. She not only provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black … Read More

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Haymarket Books “Racial Capitalism: A Reading List”

Via Haymarket Books.  Haymarket Books “Racial Capitalism: A Reading List” Haymarket Books “Racial Capitalism: A Reading List” In the midst of an international pandemic and an economic crisis, a powerful anti-racist movement has spread across the world, demanding the defunding, disarming, and abolition of police and, in many cases, situating those aims in a critique … Read More

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An Antiracist Reading List

Via The New York Times.  An Antiracist Reading List Ibram X. Kendi on books to help America transcend its racist heritage. By Ibram X. Kendi No one becomes “not racist,” despite a tendency by Americans to identify themselves that way. We can only strive to be “antiracist” on a daily basis, to continually rededicate ourselves to … Read More

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So You Want to Talk About Race

Via GoodReads.  So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today’s racial landscape–from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement–offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide In So You … Read More

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