Reading Recommendations
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Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America by Lerone Bennett Jr
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Slavery’s Capitalism Edited by Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman
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Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan M. Metzi
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
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by Austin Channing Brown
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Allow me to Retort Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
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by Elie Mystal
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The African Personality in America: An African-Centered Framework
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By Kobi Kazembe Kalongi Kambon
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Our Time is Now by Stacy Abrams
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The Progressive Era and Race: Reaction and Reform, 1900 – 1917 David W. Southern
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Blood in My Eye by George L. Jackson
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American Psychosis by David Corn
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
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by Daina Ramey Berry
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Just as I Am by Cicely Tyson
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The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
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Nerve Juice and the Ivory Tower Confrontation in Minnesota: True Story of the Morrill Hall Takeover
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by Horace Huntley, Rose Freeman Massey and Marie Braddock Williams
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The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
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America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton
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Nothing Personal by James Baldwin
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by Peter Moskowitz
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How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood by Peter Moskowitz
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Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition edited by the Shomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 by Richard White
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How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
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The 1619 Project by Nikole Hanna Jones
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Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution by Alfred Blumrosen
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White Trash. The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
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HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST By Ibram X. Kendi Author of Stamped from the Beginning
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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
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White Rage – The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
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They Were Her Property - White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
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Learning to Be White: Money, Race and God in America by Thandeka
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
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The Assassination of Fred Hampton – How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther by Jeffrey Haas
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The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
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When Affirmative Action was White by Ira Katznelson
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White Supremacy and the Post-Racial Colorblind Era – Exploring Visible and Invisible Whiteness in the United States – an Unbleached Unbook Look by Dr. Cynthia Alease Smith