Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit
By: Mary-Frances Winters
4.43
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
This is the first book to define and explore Black fatigue, the intergenerational impact of systemi…
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1. Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
By: Judith Lewis Herman
4.39
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In th… read more
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- nonfiction
- mental health
"Dissociation appears to be... the internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced."-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
"Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation."-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
"The desire for total control over another person is the common denominator of all forms of tyranny."-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
"People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner."-Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
2. Family
By: J. California Cooper
4.42
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In this wise, beguiling, and beautiful novel set in the era of the Civil War, award-winning playwri… read more
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- race
3. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
By: Brittney Cooper
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Black women are often considered angry and divisive in their interactions with others in both publi… read more
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- anti racist
4. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By: Richard Rothstein
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more
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- social justice
- anti racist
5. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
By: Dorothy Roberts
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activ… read more
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6. Womb City
By: Tlotlo Tsamaase
3.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
WOMB CITY imagines a dark and deadly future Botswana, rich with culture and true folklore, which be… read more
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- audiobook
7. In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror She’s Black #1)
By: Lola Akinmade Åkerström
3.82
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
An AMAZON Best of the Month Pick Good Morning America (GMA) Book Club Buzz Pick Finalist - 20… read more
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"Privilege comes in levels, Brit,"-Lola Akinmade Åkerström, In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror She’s Black #1)
8. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
By: Uché Blackstock
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
- audiobook
9. All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope—And Hard Pills to Swallow—About Fighting for Black Lives
By: Andre Henry
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A leading voice for social justice reveals how he stopped arguing with white people who deny the on… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- anti racist
- audiobook
10. 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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11. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
4.14
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Natha… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
12. The Garden Within: Where the War with Your Emotions Ends and Your Most Powerful Life Begins
By: Anita Phillips
4.37
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Too often we’ve been taught to view our … read more
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- self help
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
By: Jonathan M. Metzl
4.10
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences—even for the white vo… read more
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- race
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- social issues
- anti racist
- audiobook
"It's a narrative about how "whiteness" becomes a formation worth living and dying for, and how, in myriad ways and on multiple levels, white Americans bet their lives on particular sets of meanings a…"-Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
14. My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
By: Resmaa Menakem
4.40
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trau… read more
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- race
- history
- mental health
- nonfiction
- social justice
- anti racist
- self help
"At its best, activism is a form of healing. It is about what we do and how we show up in the world. It is about learning and expressing regard, compassion and love."-Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
"In today's America, we tend to think of healing as something binary: either we're broken or we've healed from that brokenness. But that's not how healing operates, and it's almost never how human gro…"-Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
15. White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better
By: Regina Jackson
4.48
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling … read more
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- self help
- race
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- social issues
- anti racist
- audiobook
16. The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
By: Carol Anderson
4.33
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the … read more
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- race
- history
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- social issues
- anti racist
17. The Coldest Secret Ever: Standalone
By: N'Dia Rae
4.46
Format: 189 pages, Kindle Edition
Logan has always been a good girl, a beauty queen turned wife, mother and media personality with a … read more
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18. The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women
By: Marita Golden
4.34
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
How African American Women Repair and Recover from Trauma and Racism Meet Black women who have l… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- mental health
19. Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1)
By: Nnedi Okorafor
3.97
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Niger, West Africa, 2074 It is an era of tainted technology and mysterious mysticism. A great c… read more
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- audiobook
"I want you to write yourself into history because no matter what history books say, even you are a part of it."-Nnedi Okorafor, Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1)
20. The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power
By: Terry J. Benton-Walker
3.89
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
13 SCARY STORIES. 13 AUTHORS OF COLOR. 13 TIMES WE SURVIVED THE FIRST KILL. The White Guy Dies Fir… read more
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- audiobook
21. You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
By: Tarana Burke
4.52
Format: 6 pages, Audio CD
Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organisers, artis… read more
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"The truth always needs a resting place or it will lie down wherever it sees fit."-Tarana Burke, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
"At the time, the whispers to keep silent and appear normal were deafening. And so we did. There is no blame here. We were just trying to survive. (Where the Truth Rests)"-Tarana Burke, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
"Dangerous is the woman who can give herself what she used to seek from others. Limitless is the woman who dares to name herself. The way I see it, shame cannot oppress what acceptance has already cla…"-Tarana Burke, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
"Systems of white supremacy teach us shame because they have no guilt. Rejecting shame for Black lives means rejecting individual responsibility for structural failures. (Unlearning Shame and Remember…"-Tarana Burke, You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
22. White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
By: Ruby Hamad
4.56
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
This explosive book of history and cultural criticism argues that white feminism has been a weapon … read more
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"This weaponization of White Womanhood continues to be the centerpiece of an arsenal used to maintain the status quo and punish anyone who dares challenge it."-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
"White women can oscillate between their gender and their race, between being the oppressed and the oppressor. Women of color are never permitted to exist outside of these constraints: we are both wom…"-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
"Yes, it is true women of color have been the targets of a setup of monumental proportions, something that amounts to nothing short of a covert war against us. But it is also true that these attacks a…"-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
23. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
By: Sabrina Strings
4.25
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
In her first book, sociologist Strings (sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine) explores the histor… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- anti racist
- audiobook
"...the current anti-fat bias in the United States and in much of the West was not born in the medical field. Racial scientific literature since at least the eighteenth century has claimed that fatnes…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"Together, the two traveled to the south of France, where Bernier earned a medical degree in just three months. The degree, however, carried the somewhat suspect stipulation that his fast-tracked medi…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"...racial discourse was deployed by elite Europeans and white Americans to create social distinctions between themselves and fat racial Others. Black people, as well as so-called degraded or hybrid w…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"The legacy of Protestant moralism and race science as it related to fat and thin persons loomed large. Indeed, many early to mid-twentieth-century physicians relied on moral and racial logics to rail…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
24. 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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- race
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
25. Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
By: Kris Manjapra
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world To fully … read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
26. Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods
By: Mariana Alessandri
3.96
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
A philosopher’s personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means t… read more
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- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Welcome to the Basement: An Upside-Down Guide to Greatness
By: Tim Ross (B-Side)
4.57
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
If Jesus is the chief cornerstone of everything God is building in the world--what floor do you wan… read more
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- nonfiction
28. It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies
By: Jessica Wilson MS RD
4.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
WE WILL REWRITE THE NARARTIVE OF BLACKNESS THAT CENTERS AND CELEBRATES OUR JOY. In It’s Always Bee… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- anti racist
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29. Sky Full of Elephants
By: Cebo Campbell
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college prof… read more
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30. Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit
By: Mary-Frances Winters
4.43
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
This is the first book to define and explore Black fatigue, the intergenerational impact of systemi… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- mental health
- nonfiction
- social justice
- social issues
- anti racist
- audiobook
31. Constituent Service: A Third District Story
By: John Scalzi
3.92
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
The aliens are here . . . and they want municipal services! Ashley Perrin is fresh out of colleg… read more
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