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Celebrating Black History Month 2021 Nonfiction titles
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Aftershocks : a memoir
by Nadia Owusu
An award-winning essayist combines literary memoir and cultural history to examine her personal struggles with her mixed-heritage identity and the emotional trauma of her mother’s abandonment and father’s dark secrets.
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Just as I am : a memoir by Cicely TysonThe Academy, Tony, and three-time Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer tells her stunning story, looking back at her six-decade career and life.
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Surpassing certainty : what my twenties taught me
by Janet Mock
The transgender activist presents a memoir of her search for purpose, love, and self-realization in an early adulthood marked by her education at the University of Hawaii, a defining relationship, and her entry into journalism
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How we fight for our lives : a memoir by Saeed JonesThe co-host of BuzzFeed’s AM to DM, award-winning poet and author of Prelude to Bruise documents his coming-of-age as a young, gay, black man in an American South at a crossroads of sex, race and power.
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Black skin, white masks
by Frantz Fanon
An updated translation of the author's seminal work on black identity and race theory offers insight into its influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements throughout the world.
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