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ReconstructionThese are books for students and teachers on the Reconstruction era in the United States.

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America|HardcoverFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity.What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is...

How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood|PaperbackMore than sixty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that America’s schools could no longer be segregated by race. Critically acclaimed novelist Jim Grimsley was eleven years old in 1966 when federally mandated integration of schools went into effect in...

Acting White?: Rethinking Race in What does it mean to "act black" or "act white"? Is race merely a matter of phenotype, or does it come from the inflection of a person's speech, the clothes in her closet, how she chooses to spend her time and with whom she chooses to spend it? What does it mean to be...

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning|HardcoverThe #1 New York Times bestseller and a USAToday bestseller!A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racismand antiracismin AmericaThis is NOT a history book.This is a book about the here and now. A...

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies|PaperbackIn this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the...

Killers of the Dream|PaperbackA Southern white writer, educator, and activist, Lillian Smith (1897–1966) spoke out all her life against injustice. In Killers of the Dream (1949), her most influential book, she draws on memories of her childhood to describe the psychological and moral cost of the powerful,...

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America|HardcoverNOW A NEW YORK TIMES, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY, INDIEBOUND, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, CHRONICLE HERALD, SALISBURY POST, GUELPH MERCURY TRIBUNE, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post...

Jesus and the Disinherited|PaperbackIn this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman (1900-1981) demonstrates how the gospel may be read as a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised. Jesus is a partner in the pain of the oppressed and the example of His life offers a...

The Fire Next Time|PaperbackAn official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selectionA national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation, gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement—and still...

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration|PaperbackIn this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.<br...

Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents|Hardcover#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, <i...

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo: 9780807047408 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

So You Want to Talk About Race

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson | Bestselling Book and Adapted FilmLearn more about the book and film.

How to Be an Antiracist|Hardcover#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves.</b...

The Inner Work of Racial Justice

Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race|PaperbackFor twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. As a colleague and neighbor, she worried about offending people she dearly wanted to befriend. As an arts administrator, she didn't understand why her diversity efforts lacked...

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