Black Futures
By: Kimberly Drew
4.57
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
“A literary experience unlike any I’ve had in recent memory . . . a blueprint for this moment and t…
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1. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
By: Toni Morrison
4.32
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensel… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
"What solicited my attention was whether the cultural associations of jazz were as important to Cardinal’s “possession"-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"...Being simply illustrations, of how each of us reads, becomes engaged in and watches what is being read all at the same time."-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"Der Afrikanismus ist das Vehikel, durch das sich das amerikanische Ich als nicht versklavt, sondern frei erfährt, als nicht abstoßend, sondern begehrenswert, nicht hilflos, sondern priviligiert und m…"-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
2. Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City
By: Natalie Hopkinson
4.00
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
Go-go is the conga-drum inflected black popular music that emerged in Washington, D.C., during the … read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
3. The Rose That Grew from Concrete
By: Tupac Shakur
3.44
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
This collection of more than 100 poems that honestly and artfully confront topics ranging from pove… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
4. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
5. Earthseed: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
A multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner's powerful saga of survival and destiny in a near-future dy… read more
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6. The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An exceptional father-son story about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the… read more
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7. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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8. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.57
Format: 504 pages, Hardcover
An epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, Four Hundred Sou… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
"Black people will always find each other in the passage between death and America"-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"And again we confront the problem of history: it's usually the powerful who get to write it."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"Z is for zealotry: national pride like an infinite zipline, hyperdrive, the fastest way down."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
"There's dust, a scratch in a groove, and here we are repeating the same two seconds of "Strange Fruit."-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
9. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
By: Marc Lamont Hill
4.21
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
10. Girls That Never Die: Poems
By: Safia Elhillo
4.30
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these thre… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"I will begin by writing a sentence about cutting. I will begin by writing a sentence about silence. I will continue by writing a sentence about cutting. I will proceed to ask the question about cutti…"-Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die: Poems
11. Afterparties
By: Anthony Veasna So
3.95
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more
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- race
"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
12. 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
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
"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
13. Popisho
By: Leone Ross
3.82
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A sensual novel, Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are bro… read more
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"Compassion was a kind of magic; listening was at least half the task."-Leone Ross, Popisho
"If a man want cook, he hire one, nah? Or do it himself, if he have a mind."-Leone Ross, Popisho
"He sought out cold waterfalls, small thick forests, and thought about nothing at all."-Leone Ross, Popisho
"Butterflies were like alcohol. The heat of a good wine in a burnt orange butterfly. The cool swallow of rare ship-bought vodka in clear, white and blue beauties."-Leone Ross, Popisho
14. 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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- poetry
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
15. The Prophets
By: Robert Jones Jr.
3.92
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593085684 A novel about the forbidden union between two ensl… read more
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- race
"Good, he thought. Let it be ugly so it could be truth."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
"Every travesty that had ever been committed had been committed by plain people."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
"Our responsibility is to tell you the truth. But since you were never told the truth, you will believe it a lie. Lies are more affectionate than truth and embrace with both arms."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
"Isaiah smiled at Samuel's unwillingness, his grunts and sighs and head shaking, even though he understood the danger in it. Tiny resistances were a kind of healing in a weeping place."-Robert Jones Jr., The Prophets
16. Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story
By: Talib Kweli
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY LITERARY PRIZEFrom one of the most lyrically gifted… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
17. Just Us: An American Conversation
By: Claudia Rankine
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Claudia Rankine's Citizen changed the conversation--Just Us urges all of us into itAs everyday whit… read more
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- poetry
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
"To converse is to risk the unraveling of the said and the unsaid."-Claudia Rankine, Just Us: An American Conversation
18. Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism
By: Elsa Sjunneson
4.40
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies,… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
"Did you know that Helen Keller created her own form of sign language to communicate with her family? (Page 32)"-Elsa Sjunneson, Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism
"Most Deaf kids have home signs; they develop their own ways to get what they need. I have my own, too. My colleagues in the science fiction world who sign can get my attention, can communicate with m…"-Elsa Sjunneson, Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism
"The English language is perniciously ableist. We speak in metaphor that constantly puts down disabled bodies, with phrases like "turning a blind eye" and "it fell on deaf ears" falling from our lips …"-Elsa Sjunneson, Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism
19. Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus)
By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents a journey through America's past and our nation's attempts at renew… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
- social justice
20. Black Futures
By: Kimberly Drew
4.57
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
“A literary experience unlike any I’ve had in recent memory . . . a blueprint for this moment and t… read more
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- poetry
- art
- race
- history
- politics
- anthologies
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- sociology
21. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
