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Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy by Edward Ball
2020
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry
2020
Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field by Howard Bryant
2020
A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America by Elliott Currie
2020
Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture by Emma Dabiri
2020
Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism by Seyward Darby
2020
The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever by Kent Garrett
2020
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart by Alicia Garza
2020
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
2020
Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic by Kenya Hunt
2020
White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones
2020
The Other Madisons: The Lost History Of A President's Black Family by Bettye Kearse
2020
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
2020
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne
2020
Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
2020
Stakes Is High: Life after the American Dream by Mychal Denzel Smith
2020
Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African American Marriage by Dianne M. Stewart
2020
Standoff: Race, Policing, and a Deadly Assault That Gripped a Nation by Jamie Thompson
2020
How to Make a Slave and Other Essays (21st Century Essays) by Jerald Walker
2020
Afropessimism by Frank B. III Wilderson
2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
2020

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