Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness
By: Laura Coates
4.20
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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1. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
By: Michael Eric Dyson
4.31
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
Short, emotional, literary, powerful―Tears We Cannot Stop is the book that all Americans who care a… read more
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- audiobook
"Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public."-Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
"The status quo always favors neutrality which in truth is never neutral at all but supports those who stand against change."-Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
2. In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court
By: Brittney Griner , Sue Hovey
3.68
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Hailed by ESPN as the world's most famous female basketball player, Brittney Griner has been shatte… read more
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3. Petticoats And Prejudice: Women And Law In Nineteenth Century Canada
By: Constance Backhouse
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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- nonfiction
4. The Autobiography of an Execution
By: David R. Dow
3.60
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
Near the beginning of The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow lays his cards on the table. "Pe… read more
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5. Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
By: Kimberlé Crenshaw , None , None , None
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
In the past few years, a new generation of progressive intellectuals has dramatically transformed h… read more
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6. Unbought And Unbossed
By: Shirley Chisholm
3.00
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Unbought and Unbossedis Shirley Chisholm's account of her remarkable rise from young girl in Brookl… read more
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7. The Story of Jane Doe
By: Jane Doe
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Startling, incisive and surprisingly funny, this is the true story of a woman who challenged stereo… read more
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8. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By: Imani Perry
3.97
Format: 410 pages, Hardcover
An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more
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"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
9. Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness
By: Laura Coates
4.20
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This instant New York Times bestseller offers “a firsthand, eye-opening story of a prosecutor that … read more
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10. 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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11. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
12. 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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- audiobook
13. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
By: Elie Mystal
4.59
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
According to commentator and lawyer Elie Mystal, Republicans are wrong when they tell you the First… read more
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- audiobook
14. Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
By: Linda Villarosa
4.46
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • "A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and di… read more
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- audiobook
15. Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
By: Wajahat Ali
4.17
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of … read more
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"The Whiteness doesn't want us to be American. But since it can't remove all of us, it will always find ways to dominate the rest of us and make our lives uncomfortable."-Wajahat Ali, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
"Nearly 30 percent of the enslaved were originally Muslim, which means Muslims' stories, labor, tears, pain, and dreams have fertilized this country's soil from the beginning."-Wajahat Ali, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
"Like many great works of theater, I believe America is simultaneously a riotous comedy and a heartbreaking tragedy. Our hamartia, our fatal flaw, is racism. It haunts us every day."-Wajahat Ali, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
"But I already knew that, in America, if you aren't writing your story, your story will always be written for you. If you aren't telling your story, your story will always be told to you."-Wajahat Ali, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
16. The Trayvon Generation
By: Elizabeth Alexander
4.36
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet comes a galvanizing m… read more
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17. The Fighting Soul: On the Road with Bernie Sanders
By: Ari Rabin-Havt
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Bernie Sanders inspires fervent love and, even among his enemies, a measure of grudging respect—yet… read more
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18. Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free: The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth
By: Alice Faye Duncan
4.31
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Black activist Opal Lee had a vision of Juneteenth as a holiday for everyone. Growing up in Texas, … read more
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- nonfiction
19. Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
By: Dahlia Lithwick
4.40
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Senior Editor and one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the… read more
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- audiobook
"Being told you are believed without consequences being levied is neither justice nor power. And that is the real problem when women's pain is substituted for actual justice. Pain seems to have a sell…"-Dahlia Lithwick, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
20. My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole
By: Will Jawando
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A call to action and a narrative that runs counter to every racist stereotype that thwarts the live… read more
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21. The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
By: Kristin Henning
4.57
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant analysis of the foundation of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, l… read more
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- true crime
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- social justice
- audiobook
22. To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A stunning personal manifesto on memory, family, and history that explores how we in America might—… read more
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23. The Coquíes Still Sing: A Story of Home, Hope, and Rebuilding
By: Karina Nicole Gonzalez
4.31
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A story about home, community, and hope, inspired by the rebuilding of Puerto Rico following Hurric… read more
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24. Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
By: Preet Bharara
4.27
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
By the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, an important overview of … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"You can’t ever really know someone else’s mind or someone else’s heart, what someone else is capable of."-Preet Bharara, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
"Go out there and try to be good. If you go out there and try to be good, you've got a chance to be great."-Preet Bharara, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
"You will not find God or grace in legal concepts, in formal notions of criminal justice. Certain values and ideals are beyond justice. These include mercy, forgiveness, redemption, dignity. Also love."-Preet Bharara, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
"One's understanding of the truth—whether that's the correctness of a fact or the guilt of a person—should never be unalterable. Think of a strongly held, defensible point of view as a block of ice, f…"-Preet Bharara, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
25. The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
By: Andrew G. McCabe
4.16
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
On March 16, 2018, just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he h… read more
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"The purpose of the FBI is not to support one side. The purpose of the FBI is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution."-Andrew G. McCabe, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
"A person such as the president canon impulse and with minimal effort inject any sort of falsehood into public conversation through digital media and call his own lie a correction of "fake news."-Andrew G. McCabe, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
"[Jeff Sessions’] major interest in any given topic tended to be the immigration angle, even when there was no immigration angle. Before disruptions of US-based counterterrorism cases, we would brief …"-Andrew G. McCabe, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
"Fear is why the president still has a map of his electoral college victory hanging outside the door to the Oval Office. Fear is why the president makes every person who goes into his office pass by a…"-Andrew G. McCabe, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
26. The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall’s Life, Leadership, and Legacy
By: Kekla Magoon
4.31
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant picture book biography about Thurgood Marshall, who fought for equality during the Civi… read more
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- biography
- social justice
27. Her Honor: My Life on the Bench...What Works, What's Broken, and How to Change It
By: LaDoris Hazzard Cordell
4.38
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In Her Honor, Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell provides a rare and thought-provoking insider account o… read more
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28. American Injustice: Inside Stories from the Underbelly of the Criminal Justice System
By: David S. Rudolf
4.23
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the fearless defense attorney and civil rights lawyer who rose to fame with Netflix’s The Stai… read more
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29. White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
By: William J. Barber II
4.39
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An explosive work with far-ranging historical implications, White Poverty promises to be one of the… read more
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30. Money, Power, Respect: How Women in Sports Are Shaping the Future of Feminism
By: Macaela MacKenzie
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An inside look at how women athletes are leading the fight for equality—on and off the field Wome… read more
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31. The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice
By: William A Darity
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
This groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations. … read more
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