White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation
By: Lauren Michele Jackson
4.14
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Exposes the new generation of whiteness thriving at the expense and borrowed ingenuity of black peo…
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1. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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2. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
3. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- race
- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
4. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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- race
- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
- adult
- audiobook
5. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
By: Geraldine DeRuiter
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
6. Alive At The End Of The World
By: Saeed Jones
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
7. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
By: Alexander Chee
4.39
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literat… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Destroying art is practice for destroying people."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"...books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
8. Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
By: Danyel Smith
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
American pop music is arguably this country’s greatest cultural contribution to the world, and its … read more
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- race
- history
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
9. Soulstar (The Kingston Cycle, #3)
By: C.L. Polk
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
With Soulstar, C. L. Polk concludes her riveting Kingston Cycle, a whirlwind of magic, politics, ro… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
10. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
11. My Heart
By: Corinna Luyken
4.26
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
My heart is a window. My heart is a slide. My heart can be closed...or opened up wide. Some days… read more
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12. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
13. 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
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
14. This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
By: Taylor Harris
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A Black mother bumps up against the limits of everything she thought she believed—about science and… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
15. 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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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- anti racist
"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
16. Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook: A Cookbook
By: Sohla El-Waylly
4.48
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
Change the way you think about cooking! In this epic guide to better eating, the chef, recipe devel… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
17. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
18. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
19. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
By: Anna Akbari
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. The Holocaust: An Unfinished History
By: Dan Stone
4.28
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory new history that reexamines the brutal reality of the Holocaust—and reinterprets the e… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
21. Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
By: Julia Lee
4.34
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Julia Lee is angry. And she has questions. What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- audiobook
22. Carefree Black Girls
By: Zeba Blay
4.30
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Carefree Black Girls is an exploration and celebration of black women’s identity and impact on pop … read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- audiobook
23. Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror
By: Lincoln Michel
3.38
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
A collection of horror-inspired flash fiction, featuring over 40 new stories from literary, horror,… read more
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- adult
24. Doppelgangbanger
By: Cortney Lamar Charleston
3.82
Format: None pages, None
Dopplegangbanger , rendered as the A- and B-sides of an album of poems, re-imagines and remixes Ame… read more
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- nonfiction
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25. Dyke [geology]
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.31
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Through intertwined threads of autofiction, lyric science wri… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
26. Another Word for Love: A Memoir
By: Carvell Wallace
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
27. Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough
By: Dina Nayeri
3.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
“Dina Nayeri’s powerful writing confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience.”—Viet Than… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
28. Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
By: Fariha Róisín
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The multi-disciplinary artist and author of Like a Bird and How to Cure a Ghost explores the commod… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
"I think her precocious intellectual development is what happens to bright and sensitive kids when the emotional environment isn't able to hold them. They develop this very powerful intellect that hol…"-Fariha Róisín, Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
"I have a lot of grief over being robbed of my early life and so I have a lot of anger towards people who have had good childhoods, it’s a privilege. I’m not sure why we don’t understand this. Especia…"-Fariha Róisín, Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
29. Fairest: A Memoir
By: Meredith Talusan
3.76
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A singular, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir of a Filipino boy with albinism whose story tr… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow
By: Damilare Kuku
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Humor and poignance mix in this powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgmental aunties,… read more
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- adult
31. White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation
By: Lauren Michele Jackson
4.14
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Exposes the new generation of whiteness thriving at the expense and borrowed ingenuity of black peo… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- adult
- anti racist
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