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Stand Against Racism -Adult Nonfiction |
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The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
The powerful evocation of a childhood in Harlem that helped to galvanize the early days of the civil rights movement examines the deep consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic. Reissue. 20,000 first printing.
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Citizen : an American lyric
by Claudia Rankine
Collects essays, poetry, and images that expose the racial tensions in twenty-first century life, highlighting the slights, slips of the tongue, and intentional offensives that pervade the home, school, and popular media
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Democracy in black : how race still enslaves the American soul
by Eddie S. Glaude
In a book that is part-manifesto, part-history, part -memoir, a professor at Princeton University, in the tradition of Cornel West's Race Matters, makes the case that multiple forces have conspired to deepen the impoverishment of black communities, crystallizing the untenable position of Black America and offering thoughts on a better way forward.
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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.
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Monument : poems : new and selected
by Natasha D. Trethewey
The author, a two-term U.S. poet laureate, uses verse to give witness to unsung icons such as working class African American women
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Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
The executive director of a social advocacy group that has helped relieve condemned prisoners explains why justice and mercy must go hand-in-hand through the story of Walter McMillian, a man condemned to death row for a murder he didn't commit. Simultaneous.
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