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Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy (2014) (e-book available)

Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (2018)

Carol and Jordan Steiker, Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment (2016) (e-book available)

Angela Davis, Women, Race, and Class (1981)

bell hooks, Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (1981)

Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (2017)

Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays (2019) (e-book available)

Tamara Winfrey Harris, The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America (2015) (e-book available)

Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) (e-book available)

 Harriet A. Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (2008) (e-book available)

Deirdre Cooper Owens, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology (2017)

Damon Tweedy, Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine (2015)

Uché Blackstock, Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine (2024) 

Linda Villarosa, Under the Skin: Racism, Inequality, and the Health of a Nation (2022) (e-book available)

Michele Harper, The Beauty in Breaking (2020)

bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (1994)

Craig Steven Wilder, Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities (2013) (e-book available)

Shardé Davis, Being Black in the Ivory: Truth-Telling About Racism in Higher Education (2024)

W. Carson Byrd, Poison in the Ivy: Race Relations and the Reproduction of Inequality on Elite College Campuses (2017)

Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (2017)

Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016) (e-book available)

Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton, American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (1993) (e-book available)

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (2019) (e-book available)

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010) (e-book available)

Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003) (e-book available)

James Forman, Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (2017)

Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (2017) (e-book available)

Monique Couvson, Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (2015) (e-book available)

Elizabeth Hinton, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (2016)

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (2007)

Elie Mystal, Allow me to Retort: a Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution (2022)

Orville Vernon Burton and Armand Derfner, Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court (2021)

Stephen Bright and James Kwak, The Fear of Too Much Justice (2023) (e-book available)

Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982)

Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984) (e-book available)

Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives (2019) 

Timothy B. Tyson, The Blood of Emmett Till (2017)

James H. Madison, A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America (2001)

Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South (Michael J. Pfeifer ed., 2013) (e-book available)

3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets (2015) (streaming video)

Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing (2017)

Andrea J. Ritchie, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (2017)

Paul Butler, Chokehold: Policing Black Men (2017)

Matt Stroud, Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High-Tech Policing (2019)

Frank Baumgartner, Derek Epp, and Kelsey Shoub, Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us About Policing and Race (2018) (e-book available)

Carol Anderson, One Person, No Vote (2018) (e-book available)

Ari Berman, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America (2015) 

Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (2017)

Stacey Abrams, Our Time is Now (2020)

Ian Haney López,  Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class (2014) (e-book available)

Michael Eric Dyson, The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America (2016)

Meredith Broussard, More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech (2023) (e-book available)

Charlton D. McIlwain, Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the Afronet to Black Lives Matter (2020) (e-book available)

Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life (Ruha Benjamin ed., 2019)

Shereen Daniels, The Anti-Racist Organization: Dismantling Systemic Racism in the Workplace (2022) (e-book available)

Bärí A. Williams, Diversity in the Workplace (2011)