Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration
By: Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts
4.35
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With deeply personal and uplifting essays in the vein of Black Girls Rock , You Are Your Best Thing…
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1. Juliet Takes a Breath
By: Gabby Rivera
4.17
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to h… read more
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"Read because you’re tired of secrets."-Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath
"But it was August and what does love mean at the end of a summer?"-Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath
"I understood 'microaggressions' to mean 'little bullshit acts of racism."-Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath
"How was I supposed to survive here? These Portlanders were an entirely different breed of white people."-Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath
2. 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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3. Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
By: Da’Shaun Harrison
4.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Exploring anti-fatness and anti-Blackness at the intersections of race, police violence, gender ide… read more
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- social justice
- audiobook
"Ugly is political. It is the determiner for who does and does not work; who does and does not Love; who does and does not die; who does and does not eat."-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
"What is the utility of "body positivity" if it only seeks to provide one with a false sense of confidence rather than to liberate all from that which cages the body?"-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
"What would it mean for us to lean into Insecurity as a political tool in which we free ourselves from insisting that we perform "perfection" and total confidence in order to advocate for our collecti…"-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
"What I am really naming here is the complicatedness of feeling both affirmed and harmed by your assault because your body is never really your own when you're fat and Black, and the trauma you arrive…"-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
4. The Stolen Daughter
By: ReShonda Tate Billingsley
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley delivers a poignant, page-turning novel about the po… read more
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- audiobook
5. Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist
By: Sesali Bowen
4.45
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From funny and fearless entertainment journalist Sesali Bowen, Bad Fat Black Girl combines rule-bre… read more
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- essays
- audiobook
6. 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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"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
7. Walking in My Joy: In These Streets
By: Jenifer Lewis
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new offering from the author of the hugely successful Mother of Black Hollywood. Walking in My Jo… read more
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- essays
- audiobook
"Ain't no shame in my game. This is what too much stress looks like. Y'all come on and take this ride with me."-Jenifer Lewis, Walking in My Joy: In These Streets
8. Coming Home
By: Brittney Griner
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more
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"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."-Brittney Griner, Coming Home
9. Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
By: Maya Schenwar
4.44
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A crucial indictment of widely embraced “alternatives to incarceration” that exposes how many of th… read more
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- social justice
"The same factors that propelled mass incarceration - racism, "law and order" politics, the war on drugs, the destruction of the social safety net - also propelled mass supervision."-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Monitors and house arrest aren't rehabilitative or transformative - they don't support people in making changes that would be helpful to their lives, gaining needed resources, addressing harm or viol…"-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Unlike prisons, psychiatric institutions can be entered voluntarily, and people often turn to them in pursuit of treatment. But when used involuntarily as prison replacements, hospitals mimic persons…"-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
"Many types of treatment claim to be about fixing the so-called problems of madness. The real problem is that certain ways of experiencing the world are seen as categorical threats— to normativity, to…"-Maya Schenwar, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
10. The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are
By: Tariq Trotter
4.20
Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition
“Tariq Trotter . . . could be hip-hop’s Dostoyevsky. Like the Russian novelist, Mr. Trotter has ref… read more
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11. God Is a Black Woman
By: Christena Cleveland
4.32
Format: 256 pages, ebook
In this timely, much-needed book, theologian, social psychologist, and activist Christena Cleveland… read more
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12. Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America
By: Daniel Black
4.34
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A piercing collection of essays on racial tension in America and the ongoing fight for visibility, … read more
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13. "You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
By: Angela Tucker
4.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An adoption expert and transracial adoptee herself examines the unique perspectives and challenges … read more
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14. Moonrise Over New Jessup
By: Jamila Minnicks
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and encha… read more
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- social justice
- audiobook
15. Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
By: Sarah McBride
4.44
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A timely and captivating memoir about gender identity set against the backdrop of the transgender e… read more
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- audiobook
"It's impossible for our rights to remain abstract when a person is, quite literally, sitting across from you."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
"Compromise is often necessary [in politics], but entire marginalized identities are not expendable chess pieces."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
"When you've never felt like you really belonged somewhere, it's almost impossible to know what it will feel like to finally feel at home."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
"As trans activist Faye Seidler quipped, more Americans said they had seen a ghost than knew a transgender person, according to some polls."-Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
16. We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
4.31
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through. … read more
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- social justice
- essays
"Movements tend to become the practice ground for what we are healing towards, co-creating. Movements are responsible for embodying what we are inviting our people into. We need the people within our …"-Adrienne Maree Brown, We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)
17. We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems
By: Jessica Care Moore
4.29
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A dazzling full-length collection of verse from one of the leading poets of our time.Over the past … read more
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18. Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who've Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn't Enough
By: Candice Marie Benbow
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A moving essay collection promoting freedom, self-love, and divine wholeness for Black women and op… read more
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"Many women I met during my time in the academy were very good to me. But in the wake of everything I lost, I wanted to reclaim parts of me with some semblance of wholeness before everything was burne…"-Candice Marie Benbow, Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who've Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn't Enough
19. Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration
By: Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts
4.35
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With deeply personal and uplifting essays in the vein of Black Girls Rock , You Are Your Best Thing… read more
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20. I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
By: Bassey Ikpi
4.31
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
A deeply personal collection of essays exploring Nigerian-American author Bassey Ikpi’s experiences… read more
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"Yoga was still terrible, like a game of Simon Says with no winner."-Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
"Ha, ha, ha. You will laugh to make sure the bitterness doesn’t escape and burn your throat on its way out."-Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
"The restlessness has begun, like a low hum in my belly. It follows me through my days. I am sleepless nights. The comfort found only in quiet."-Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
"It makes you feel unfinished, like in your family's eyes you will never be completely whole. And in your eyes, you have never been completely whole."-Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
21. I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
By: Michael Arceneaux
3.77
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
Featured as one of Summer 2018’s most anticipated reads by the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Vulture, E… read more
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"She didn't want me to go to hell, but couldn't see that to not be wholly human might fit my own version of hell on earth."-Michael Arceneaux, I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
"Religion can make you suspend your better sensibilities. Its success in making the faithful fall in line, no matter how foolhearty a position appeared, was rooted in how great a role faith played in …"-Michael Arceneaux, I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
"The only insight I could get from the Vatican at this point included shoe recommendations and where to buy one of those bad bitch dresses priests were required to wear while performing mass, if I eve…"-Michael Arceneaux, I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
"I couldn't make someone love me. I couldn't make myself desirable to someone who didn't want me. I couldn't compel someone to see me in the same way in which I wanted to be seen. All I could do was b…"-Michael Arceneaux, I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
