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An Anti-Racist Reading List

Our present moment serves not only as a call to action, but an opportunity to educate ourselves and our community about the underlying issues that led to the unnecessary murder of George Floyd. Not all titles are readily available in-store now, but we are working to get them into your hands as soon as possible.

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How to Be an Antiracist Cover Image

How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)

By Ibram X. Kendi
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525509288
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Published: One World - August 13th, 2019
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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
$26.00
ISBN: 9780812993547
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Published: One World - July 14th, 2015
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Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)

By James Baldwin, Edward P. Jones (Foreword by)
$15.00
ISBN: 9780807006238
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Published: Beacon Press - November 20th, 2012
Men We Reaped: A Memoir Cover Image

Men We Reaped: A Memoir (Paperback)

By Jesmyn Ward
$17.00
ISBN: 9781608197651
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Published: Bloomsbury USA - September 16th, 2014
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays Cover Image

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays (Paperback)

By Damon Young
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062684318
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Published: Ecco - January 14th, 2020
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How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Saeed Jones
$26.00
ISBN: 9781501132735
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Published: Simon & Schuster - October 8th, 2019
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Cover Image

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Paperback)

By Trevor Noah
$18.00
ISBN: 9780399588198
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Published: One World - February 12th, 2019
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good Cover Image

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Paperback)

By Adrienne Maree Brown (Editor)
$20.00
ISBN: 9781849353267
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Published: AK Press - March 19th, 2019
A Black Women's History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY #5) Cover Image

A Black Women's History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY #5) (Hardcover)

By Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross
$27.95
ISBN: 9780807033555
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Published: Beacon Press - February 4th, 2020
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Cover Image

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Paperback)

By Isabel Wilkerson
$17.95
ISBN: 9780679763888
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Published: Vintage - October 4th, 2011
Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents Cover Image

Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)

By Isabel Wilkerson
$32.00
ISBN: 9780593230251
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Published: Random House - August 4th, 2020
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America Cover Image

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Paperback)

By Jr. Forman, James
$17.00
ISBN: 9780374537449
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - February 6th, 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Cover Image

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Paperback)

By Michelle Alexander
$18.99
ISBN: 9781620971932
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Published: New Press - January 7th, 2020
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The New Negro (Paperback)

By Alain Locke
$19.00
ISBN: 9780684838311
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Published: Touchstone - March 1st, 1999
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind Cover Image

A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind (Hardcover)

By Harriet A. Washington
$30.00
ISBN: 9780316509435
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Published: Little, Brown Spark - July 23rd, 2019
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde Cover Image

Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde (Paperback)

By Alexis De Veaux
$27.95
ISBN: 9780393329353
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - November 17th, 2006
W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America Cover Image

W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America (Hardcover)

By The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts, Whitney Battle-Baptiste (Editor), Britt Rusert (Editor)
$29.95
ISBN: 9781616897062
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Published: Princeton Architectural Press - October 23rd, 2018
The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC Cover Image

The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC (Paperback)

By EdD. Sellers, Cleveland L., Robert L. Terrell
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062824318
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - January 23rd, 2018
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Cover Image

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Paperback)

By Bryan Stevenson
$17.00
ISBN: 9780812984965
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Published: One World - August 18th, 2015
Solitary: A Biography (National Book Award Finalist; Pulitzer Prize Finalist) Cover Image

Solitary: A Biography (National Book Award Finalist; Pulitzer Prize Finalist) (Paperback)

By Albert Woodfox
$18.00
ISBN: 9780802148308
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Published: Grove Press - December 3rd, 2019
Don't Call Us Dead: Poems Cover Image

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems (Paperback)

By Danez Smith
$16.00
ISBN: 9781555977856
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Published: Graywolf Press - September 5th, 2017
Citizen: An American Lyric Cover Image

Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)

By Claudia Rankine
$20.00
ISBN: 9781555976903
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Published: Graywolf Press - October 7th, 2014
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Cane (Paperback)

By Jean Toomer, George B. Hutchinson (Introduction by), Zinzi Clemmons (Foreword by)
$15.00
ISBN: 9780143133674
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Published: Penguin Classics - January 8th, 2019
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (Vintage International) Cover Image

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By Toni Morrison
$16.95
ISBN: 9780525562795
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Published: Vintage - January 14th, 2020
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide Cover Image

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Paperback)

By Carol Anderson
$17.00
ISBN: 9781632864130
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Published: Bloomsbury USA - September 5th, 2017
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism Cover Image

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Paperback)

By Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by)
$16.00
ISBN: 9780807047415
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Published: Beacon Press - June 26th, 2018
How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance Cover Image

How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance (Paperback)

By Akiba Solomon, Kenrya Rankin
$17.99
ISBN: 9781568588490
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Published: Bold Type Books - March 26th, 2019
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment Cover Image

Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment (Paperback)

By Angela J. Davis, Bryan Stevenson, Marc Mauer, Bruce Western, Jeremy Travis
$16.00
ISBN: 9780525436614
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Published: Vintage - May 15th, 2018
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Open Media Series) Cover Image

Are Prisons Obsolete? (Open Media Series) (Paperback)

By Angela Y. Davis
$15.95
ISBN: 9781583225813
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Published: Seven Stories Press - August 5th, 2003
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Cover Image

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)

By Audre Lorde, Cheryl Clarke (Foreword by)
$16.99
ISBN: 9781580911863
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Published: Crossing Press - August 1st, 2007
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race Cover Image

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Paperback)

By Reni Eddo-Lodge
$18.00
ISBN: 9781635572957
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - March 5th, 2019
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy Cover Image

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy (Paperback)

By Carol Anderson, Dick Durbin (Foreword by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9781635571394
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - September 17th, 2019
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot Cover Image

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)

By Mikki Kendall
$26.00
ISBN: 9780525560548
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Published: Viking - February 25th, 2020
Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family Cover Image

Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family (Paperback)

By Mitchell Jackson
$17.00
ISBN: 9781501131738
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Published: Scribner - February 4th, 2020
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Antiracist Baby Board Book (Board book)

By Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illustrator)
$8.99
ISBN: 9780593110416
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Published: Kokila - June 16th, 2020
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Ghost Boys (Paperback)

By Jewell Parker Rhodes
$7.99
ISBN: 9780316262262
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - September 10th, 2019
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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)

By Angie Thomas
$18.99
ISBN: 9780062498533
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Published: Balzer + Bray - February 28th, 2017
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All American Boys (Paperback)

By Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely
$11.99
ISBN: 9781481463348
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Published: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books - August 29th, 2017
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning Cover Image

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning (Hardcover)

By Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
$18.99
ISBN: 9780316453691
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - March 10th, 2020
One Person, No Vote (YA edition): How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally Cover Image

One Person, No Vote (YA edition): How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally (Hardcover)

By Carol Anderson, Tonya Bolden
$18.99
ISBN: 9781547601073
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Published: Bloomsbury YA - September 17th, 2019
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America Cover Image

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America (Paperback)

By Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Tochi Onyebuchi, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Liara Tamani, Renée Watson, Rita Williams-Garcia
$10.99
ISBN: 9780062698735
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Published: Balzer + Bray - January 7th, 2020
Dear Martin Cover Image

Dear Martin (Paperback)

By Nic Stone
$9.99
ISBN: 9781101939529
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Published: Ember - September 4th, 2018
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Pet Cover Image

Pet (Hardcover)

By Akwaeke Emezi
$17.99
ISBN: 9780525647072
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Published: Make Me a World - September 10th, 2019
Just Mercy (Movie Tie-In Edition, Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice Cover Image

Just Mercy (Movie Tie-In Edition, Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice (Paperback)

By Bryan Stevenson
$10.99
ISBN: 9780593177044
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Published: Ember - December 3rd, 2019
N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law Cover Image

N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law (Paperback)

By Jody David Armour, Abdullah (Introduction by), Krasner (Foreword by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9781940660684
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Published: Los Angeles Review of Books - August 18th, 2020