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#SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence
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4.47 avg rating — 104 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 577,973 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
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4.55 avg rating — 119,537 ratings
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Just Mercy
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4.62 avg rating — 259,908 ratings
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So You Want to Talk About Race
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4.48 avg rating — 107,753 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 116,764 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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4.48 avg rating — 116,018 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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4.53 avg rating — 40,693 ratings
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A Raisin in the Sun
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3.85 avg rating — 109,904 ratings
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
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4.47 avg rating — 14,743 ratings
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
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4.16 avg rating — 171,665 ratings
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The Color Purple
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4.28 avg rating — 748,625 ratings
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His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
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4.50 avg rating — 3,136 ratings
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Black Boy
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4.09 avg rating — 55,792 ratings
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How to Be an Antiracist
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4.36 avg rating — 119,131 ratings
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
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4.49 avg rating — 25,616 ratings
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Invisible Man
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3.92 avg rating — 201,248 ratings
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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4.05 avg rating — 80,906 ratings
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If Beale Street Could Talk
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4.27 avg rating — 80,542 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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3.99 avg rating — 384,299 ratings
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Between the World and Me
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4.40 avg rating — 364,187 ratings
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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
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4.07 avg rating — 19,514 ratings
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 1,004,252 ratings
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 410,266 ratings
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All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope—And Hard Pills to Swallow—About Fighting for Black Lives
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4.42 avg rating — 1,297 ratings
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The House on Mango Street
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3.68 avg rating — 231,136 ratings
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Such a Fun Age
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3.77 avg rating — 573,781 ratings
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The Nickel Boys
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4.25 avg rating — 304,629 ratings
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
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4.49 avg rating — 798,547 ratings
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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
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4.47 avg rating — 3,647 ratings
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Heavy
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4.47 avg rating — 44,759 ratings
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The Blood of Emmett Till
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4.27 avg rating — 8,928 ratings
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
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4.52 avg rating — 9,759 ratings
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The Bluest Eye
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4.13 avg rating — 297,857 ratings
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
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4.51 avg rating — 29,772 ratings
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Evil Aliens With Afros
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4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter
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4.46 avg rating — 97 ratings
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#SayHerName: Black Women's Stories of State Violence and Public Silence
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4.47 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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4.53 avg rating — 38,313 ratings
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Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt
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4.41 avg rating — 190 ratings
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The Trayvon Generation
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4.37 avg rating — 2,110 ratings
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Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin
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4.42 avg rating — 1,525 ratings
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The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy
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3.87 avg rating — 498 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 289,748 ratings
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Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin
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4.40 avg rating — 181 ratings
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American Lynching
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4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Giovanni’s Room
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4.34 avg rating — 246,124 ratings
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The Origin of Others (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
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4.19 avg rating — 5,060 ratings
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Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It
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4.10 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century
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4.25 avg rating — 1,884 ratings
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Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
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4.19 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
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4.32 avg rating — 8,866 ratings
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The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker – A Century of Groundbreaking Essays, Profiles, and Reporting on Race in America
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4.48 avg rating — 234 ratings
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I Am Not Your Negro
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4.47 avg rating — 7,538 ratings
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Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter
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3.94 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Native Son
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4.04 avg rating — 104,378 ratings
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Raising Our Hands
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3.66 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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3.59 avg rating — 106,201 ratings
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This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
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4.39 avg rating — 7,400 ratings
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Six Days in Cincinnati: A Graphic Account of the Riots That Shook the Nation a Decade Before Black Lives Matter
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3.76 avg rating — 279 ratings
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The Old Gringo
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3.53 avg rating — 3,908 ratings
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In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
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4.08 avg rating — 1,373 ratings
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How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
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4.27 avg rating — 2,675 ratings
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
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4.02 avg rating — 21,995 ratings
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Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen
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4.13 avg rating — 282 ratings
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
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4.18 avg rating — 14,175 ratings
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Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment
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4.38 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
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3.73 avg rating — 33,741 ratings
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White Tears/Brown Scars
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4.55 avg rating — 12,501 ratings
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Ten Lives, Ten Demands: Life-and-Death Stories, and a Black Activist's Blueprint for Racial Justice
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4.76 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The End of Policing
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4.18 avg rating — 12,249 ratings
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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3.86 avg rating — 193,838 ratings
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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4.52 avg rating — 160,013 ratings
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APB: Artists against Police Brutality
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3.95 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Stolen Years: Stories of the Wrongfully Imprisoned
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4.19 avg rating — 67 ratings
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More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)
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4.39 avg rating — 10,917 ratings
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Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
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4.30 avg rating — 357 ratings
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I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
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4.38 avg rating — 2,382 ratings
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Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till
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4.29 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
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4.07 avg rating — 3,034 ratings
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Deacon King Kong
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4.16 avg rating — 80,116 ratings
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The Journey to Chatham: Why Emmett Till?s Murder Changed America, a personal story
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4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
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4.33 avg rating — 30,341 ratings
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Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre
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4.07 avg rating — 489 ratings
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
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4.41 avg rating — 5,516 ratings
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Steeped in the Blood of Racism: Black Power, Law and Order, and the 1970 Shootings at Jackson State College
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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
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4.38 avg rating — 13,892 ratings
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From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
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4.38 avg rating — 596 ratings
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Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York
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4.43 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement
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4.17 avg rating — 932 ratings
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
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4.38 avg rating — 73,120 ratings
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
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4.37 avg rating — 4,532 ratings
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Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
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4.30 avg rating — 16,585 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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4.38 avg rating — 7,111 ratings
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Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
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4.20 avg rating — 574 ratings
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Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
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4.21 avg rating — 959 ratings
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The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
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4.34 avg rating — 1,196 ratings
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The Beast in Florida: A History of Anti-Black Violence
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3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History Of Black Organizing And White Violence In Florida From Reconstruction To The Bloody Election Of 1920 (Volume 16)
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4.16 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia's Criminal Justice System (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World)
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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