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The Old Drift

by Namwali Serpell (Goodreads Author)

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Season of Migration to the North

by Tayeb Salih

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On Morrison

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Laura’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

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This dynamic, which legal scholar Reva Siegel has dubbed “preservation through transformation,” is the process through which white privilege is maintained, though the rules and rhetoric change.1

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“Her professionalism aside, Nabisase's victory was rigged by an endomorph and a goblin standing in crabgrass, and she would never know it. There are so many lives decided this way.”
― Victor LaValle, The Ecstatic

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“Dalia had long believed in Einstein's words—that "no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
― Sandy Tolan, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

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