The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
By: Charles M. Blow
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Editor’s Choice | A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book …
Want to Read $ 9.99"Racism doesn't wither, but is trained when to advance or retreat. It becomes self-regulating."-Charles M. Blow, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
"Protesting is a form of direct democracy, but in America national policy is made of representative democracy."-Charles M. Blow, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
"It took centuries for America to hone its instruments of oppression. Every time part of it fell, it simply re-emerged in a more elegant form. Battling racism in this country is like cutting heads off the Hydra."-Charles M. Blow, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
"The same year that the Civil War ended, the two states among those with the largest percentage of Black people – Mississippi, with 54 percent in the 1870 census, and South Carolina, with 59 percent – passed what came to be known as “Black codes,"-Charles M. Blow, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
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By: Sarah Kendzior
4.11
Format: 165 pages, Kindle Edition
In this collection of essays, St. Louis journalist Sarah Kendzior tackles issues including labor ex… read more
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"Gentrifiers focus on aesthetics, not people. Because people, to them, are aesthetics."-Sarah Kendzior, The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
"In one of the wealthiest countries in the world, privation should not come with the job description, and survival should not be an aspiration."-Sarah Kendzior, The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
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"People not only fall through the cracks, they live in the cracks as a full-time occupation. The view from the cracks is a lot clearer than the view from above. When you look down on people, they stop…"-Sarah Kendzior, The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
2. The Book of Salt
By: Monique Truong
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
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4.57
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4. I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
By: Souad Mekhennet
0.00
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By: Charles R. Johnson
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
It is 1830. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave and irrepressible rogue, is desperate to escape… read more
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6. Black Girl You Are Atlas
By: Renée Watson
4.61
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
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7. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
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8. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
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4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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4.45
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10. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse
By: Brontez Purnell
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
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11. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
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4.27
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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3.72
Format: 208 pages, ebook
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13. Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
By: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
4.39
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude Jr., in a moment when the struggles of Black Lives Matter and… read more
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"[Trump] and his ideas are not exceptional. He and the people who support him are just the latest examples of the country's ongoing betrayal. . .When we make Trump exceptional, we let ourselves off th…"-Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
"Baldwin's words can sound harsh, as if he's throwing away millions of Americans and declaring them irrelevant to the life and future of our democracy. It's easy to read him that way, and sometimes, w…"-Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
14. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By: Thomas F. Schaller
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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15. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
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4.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more
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16. They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency
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4.16
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17. American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
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4.18
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20. Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
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3.85
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21. Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
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22. The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
By: Charles M. Blow
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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"Racism doesn't wither, but is trained when to advance or retreat. It becomes self-regulating."-Charles M. Blow, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
"Protesting is a form of direct democracy, but in America national policy is made of representative democracy."-Charles M. Blow, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
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"The same year that the Civil War ended, the two states among those with the largest percentage of Black people – Mississippi, with 54 percent in the 1870 census, and South Carolina, with 59 percent –…"-Charles M. Blow, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
23. Another Word for Love: A Memoir
By: Carvell Wallace
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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24. Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse"
By: Emily Raboteau
4.15
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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25. Just Us: An American Conversation
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4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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26. The Book of Jose
By: Fat Joe
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum-selling artist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Fat Joe pulls bac… read more
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27. Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
By: Sarah Kendzior
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
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"The nightmares I had been fending off had come home in the form of the Trump administration: a white supremacist kleptocracy linked to a transnational crime syndicate, using digital media to manipula…"-Sarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
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28. The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
By: Clay Cane
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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29. Harlem After Midnight (A Canary Club Mystery, #2)
By: Louise Hare
3.51
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A body falls from a town house window in Harlem, and it looks just like the newest singer at the Ap… read more
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30. An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work
By: Charlotte Shane
3.28
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a provocative and tende… read more
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31. Lovely One: A Memoir
By: Ketanji Brown Jackson
4.64
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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