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So You Want to Talk About Race
by Ijeoma Oluo
A Seattle-based writer, editor and speaker tackles the sensitive, hyper-charged racial landscape in current America, discussing the issues of privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word. Read the ebook on Overdrive or listen to the audio version on Hoopla or Overdrive.
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How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
A best-selling author, National Book Award-winner and professor combines ethics, history, law and science with a personal narrative to describe how to move beyond the awareness of racism and contribute to making society just and equitable. Read the ebook or listen to the audiobook on Overdrive.
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
The United States has the world's largest prison population, with more than two million behind bars. Alexander says this is mainly due to America's `war on drugs,' launched in 1982. In The New Jim Crow, she explains how this government initiative has led to America's black citizens being imprisoned on a colossal scale. Read the ebook on Overdrive or Hoopla or listen to the audio Overdrive.
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
by Jesmyn Ward
The National Book Award-winning author of Salvage the Bones presents a continuation of James Baldwin's 1963 The Fire Next Time that examines race issues from the past half century through essays, poems and memoir pieces by some of her generation's most original thinkers and writers. On order. Click the title link to check for the ebook in Overdrive.
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