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The House Girl (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 63,725 ratings — published 2013
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as reparations)
avg rating 4.38 — 609 ratings — published 2020
The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 417 ratings — published 2000
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 48,465 ratings — published 2017
The Case for Black Reparations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 28 ratings — published 1972
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 4,166 ratings — published 1966
Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 56 ratings — published
Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 266 ratings — published 2022
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 167,738 ratings — published 2020
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 2,399 ratings — published 2017
Reparations for Slavery and Disenfranchisement to African Americans: Four Hundred Years (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2009
Marxism, Reparations & the Black Freedom Struggle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 9 ratings — published 2007
My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations (Vintage)
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avg rating 4.06 — 275 ratings — published 2005
Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 12 ratings — published 2004
Some Kind of Famous (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.52 — 4,009 ratings — published 2025
The Paris Match (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 14,311 ratings — published 2026
Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 90 ratings — published 2014
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 35,366 ratings — published 2013
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama – The Definitive Biography of the Formative Years and Forces Behind the 44th President (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.66 — 511 ratings — published 2017
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 25,729 ratings — published 2016
Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 457 ratings — published 2016
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.61 — 3,208 ratings — published 2012
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 2,105 ratings — published 2005
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,792 ratings — published 2012
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 889,410 ratings — published 2008
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 5,728 ratings — published 2013
How the Irish Became White (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 1,820 ratings — published 1995
Are Italians White?: How Race is Made in America (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 78 ratings — published 2003
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 5,640 ratings — published 2019
ADOS Reparations Framework: A Guide to Developing a Functional Reparations Program (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published
Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 2,585 ratings — published 2017
The Trouble with Heroes (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.55 — 5,308 ratings — published 2025
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping (ebook)
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avg rating 3.93 — 123,215 ratings — published 2025
The Message (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 45,769 ratings — published 2024
Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 60 ratings — published
Everything Is Probably Fine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2,992 ratings — published 2025
The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,023 ratings — published
Reparations: Pro and Con (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 12 ratings — published 2006
Legacy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 37 ratings — published 2024
Creating a Culture of Repair: Taking Action on the Road to Reparations (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 20 ratings — published
Reparations and Reparatory Justice: Past, Present, and Future (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published
Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 566 ratings — published
The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 85 ratings — published
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 1,240 ratings — published 2021
Second First Impressions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.52 — 87,863 ratings — published 2021
The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 282 ratings — published 2021
They Called Us Enemy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.42 — 57,480 ratings — published 2019
Cousins: Connected through slavery, a Black woman and a White woman discover their past—and each other (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.18 — 155 ratings — published
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 3,362 ratings — published 2017
“Makaaina voices with fresh songs to sing
Speaking of new strengths
Mind and body strengths,
Strengthening the hope of change -- new joys
in this tiresome regimen of want and confusion.
Grand queen sleep the ageless
sleep in peace
Your people rise now,
and demand their share
of this sweet and wondrous place.
The populace from their sleep of compliance
Awake now to the beat of new
drums hewn from betrayal and delusion
urging the makaaina voice to
rise above the din of daily
trumpetings of man and machine
To be rid of confusion and fear
To stand equally with the new
rulers of this precious place
to be ruthless in demanding what is ours.
--from "Pono”
― Hanai: A Poem for Queen Liliuokalani
Speaking of new strengths
Mind and body strengths,
Strengthening the hope of change -- new joys
in this tiresome regimen of want and confusion.
Grand queen sleep the ageless
sleep in peace
Your people rise now,
and demand their share
of this sweet and wondrous place.
The populace from their sleep of compliance
Awake now to the beat of new
drums hewn from betrayal and delusion
urging the makaaina voice to
rise above the din of daily
trumpetings of man and machine
To be rid of confusion and fear
To stand equally with the new
rulers of this precious place
to be ruthless in demanding what is ours.
--from "Pono”
― Hanai: A Poem for Queen Liliuokalani
“Whether the future is wonderful or terrible is, in part, up to us.”
“But just as the world does not stop at our doorstep or our country’s borders, neither does it stop with our generation, or the next.”
― William MacAskill, What We Owe the Future
But, If we are to be responsible for the future then how could we not be responsible for our own past?
Accepting historical truths has nothing to do with "personal responsibility" but historical responsibility is definitely a thing we must accept to even have a future that isn't doomed to repeat its horrid past...”
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“But just as the world does not stop at our doorstep or our country’s borders, neither does it stop with our generation, or the next.”
― William MacAskill, What We Owe the Future
But, If we are to be responsible for the future then how could we not be responsible for our own past?
Accepting historical truths has nothing to do with "personal responsibility" but historical responsibility is definitely a thing we must accept to even have a future that isn't doomed to repeat its horrid past...”
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