America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice
By: Treva B. Lindsey
4.61
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
A powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United States and their fight f…
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1. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of … read more
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- race
- history
"To remember what they had lost and what they became, what had been torn apart and what had come together, the fugitives and refugees and multitudes in flight were called the Sisala, which means ‘to c…"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
"Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina in 1526 or in Jamestown in 1619? Was it the tug of all the lost mothers and orphaned children? Or…"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
"If slavery persists as an issue in the political life of black America, it is not because of an antiquarian obsession with bygone days or the burden of a too-long memory, but because black lives are …"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
2. Salvation: Black People and Love
By: bell hooks
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Acclaimed visionary and intellectual bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in Ame… read more
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- feminism
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- nonfiction
- social justice
3. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
By: Patricia Hill Collins
3.91
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have deve… read more
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- social justice
- sociology
4. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
3.40
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important or… read more
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5. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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6. The Dance Tree
By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping historical novel, the internationally bestselling author of The Mercies weaves a s… read more
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7. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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- race
- audiobook
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
8. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
9. Ferris
By: Kate DiCamillo
4.30
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real … read more
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10. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
By: Tricia Hersey
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more
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- audiobook
11. The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
By: Anna Malaika Tubbs
4.09
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates … read more
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- history
- feminism
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"Bertis, Louise, and Alberta, grew from children, to teenagers, to young women at a time when the birth of a nation characterized black men as scoundrels intent on brutalizing white women. When the pi…"-Anna Malaika Tubbs, The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
"Their military experience made them more of a threat. Their pride was seen as something in need of control. Once again irrational white supremacist fears turned into extreme forms of brutality. Accor…"-Anna Malaika Tubbs, The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
12. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.55
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
13. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America
By: Joy-Ann Reid
4.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold Amer… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
14. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
By: Dean Spade
4.38
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more
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- politics
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- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
15. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too
By: Ijeoma Oluo
4.46
Format: 256 pages, ebook
From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more
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- race
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
16. The Lost Journals of Sacajewea
By: Debra Magpie Earling
3.66
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Perma Red comes a devastatingly beautiful novel that challenges pr… read more
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- feminism
- womens
"Do not trust anyone who tells you there is only one story. If there were only one story or one way of seeing things all stories would die."-Debra Magpie Earling, The Lost Journals of Sacajewea
17. Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life
By: Kao Kalia Yang
4.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety told fr… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
18. Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
By: Dashka Slater
4.30
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
19. The End of Policing
By: Alex S. Vitale
4.19
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more
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"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
20. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
By: Bettina L. Love
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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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
21. Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
By: R. Eric Thomas
4.03
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of Elle's "Eric Reads the News," a poignant and hilarious memoir-in-essays about g… read more
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"Who am I doing this for and do they want what I want?"-R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
"No, but has the tyranny of facts ever stopped me before? Again, no."-R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
"...the thing about success is that it doesn't seem like a natural result of unsuccessfulness."-R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
"What is more romantic than the sudden revelation of the thing you didn't even dare to hope for?"-R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
22. The Dearly Beloved
By: Cara Wall
4.07
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are … read more
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""-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved
"She would never be free again. But she would also never be alone."-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved
"This minister, a small, balding, quick-spoken man, said often that faith, at its simplest, was the acceptance of the possibility that things one had never seen could be real."-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved
"Nan had known, as a child, that God did not answer prayers for more candy or new shoes. Those were worldly things, not sacred. God answered prayers about being a better friend, or being able to get a…"-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved
23. Abolition. Feminism. Now.
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.31
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more
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- history
- feminism
- politics
- gender
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
24. The American Daughters
By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical novel about a spirited young girl who joins a sisterhood of Black women worki… read more
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- race
- audiobook
25. A Black Women's History of the United States (ReVisioning History)
By: Daina Ramey Berry
4.30
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American w… read more
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- history
- feminism
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- womens
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26. A Dream Called Home
By: Reyna Grande
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring new memoir from Reyna Grande, the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and nati… read more
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- womens
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. No More Police: A Case for Abolition
By: Mariame Kaba
4.59
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
An instant national best seller A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizer… read more
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- social justice
- sociology
28. America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice
By: Treva B. Lindsey
4.61
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
A powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United States and their fight f… read more
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- feminism
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- gender
- nonfiction
- social justice
- womens
- sociology
- audiobook
29. Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
By: Emily Bernard
4.08
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary, exquisitely written memoir (of sorts) that looks at race--in a fearless, penetrat… read more
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"...in every scar there is a story. The salve is the telling itself."-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
"...perpetuating the pain of the past. Is the telling the salve or the wound?"-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
"In order to narrate her own life, she needs another person to listen, to aid in the tending of her interior."-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
"This was real life - no magic, only practice, commitment, and labor. This lesson, about life, about art, is one I am still learning."-Emily Bernard, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
30. Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
By: Imani Perry
4.19
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America a… read more
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- feminism
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- social justice
- audiobook
31. Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
By: Kate Clifford Larson
4.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, fi… read more
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