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• Race-- the Power of An Illusion

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  Everyone can tell a Nubian from a Norwegian, so why not divide people into different races? It's true that race has always been with us, right? If race doesn't exist biologically, what is it? And why should it matter? These are the questions…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Race: The Power of an Illusion

  View on racepowerofanillusion.org

  An online companion to the award-winning documentary series by California Newsreel above. Discusses the origins, beliefs and consequences of what we call race. Includes many additional resources on myriad questions about race.

• Poemhood, Our Black Revival

  History, Folklore & the Black Experience: a Young Adult Poetry Anthology

  McBride, Amber,

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  Also available as an audiobook."Starring thirty-seven poets, with contributions from acclaimed authors, including Kwame Alexander, Ibi Zoboi, and Nikki Giovanni, this breathtaking Black YA poetry anthology edited by National Book Award finalist…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stay Up

  Racism, Resistance, and Reclaiming Black Freedom

  Dill, Khodi,

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  Also available as an audiobook. "Racism is a real and present danger. But how can you fight it if you don’t know how it works or where it comes from? Using a compelling mix of memoir, cultural criticism, and anti-oppressive theory, Khodi Dill breaks…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Girl You Are Atlas

  Watson, Renée,

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  Also available as an audiobook. "A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Was the Ink

  Coles, Michelle,

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  Also available as an audiobook. "Through the help of a ghostly ancestor, sixteen-year-old Malcolm is sent on a journey through Reconstruction-era America to find his place in modern-day Black progress." - Lee & Low Books

• Native Nations

  a Millennium in North America

  DuVal, Kathleen,

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  Also available as an audiobook. "Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways that reverberated globally. And, as award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

  Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938-

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  Also available as an audiobook. "Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask

  Treuer, Anton

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  Also available as an audiobook. "In matter-of-fact responses to over 120 questions, both thoughtful and outrageous, modern and historical, Ojibwe scholar and cultural preservationist Anton Treuer gives a frank, funny, and sometimes personal tour of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

  a History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017

  Khalidi, Rashid,

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  Also available as an audiobook. "A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history." - Metropolitan Books

• Salt Houses

  Alyan, Hala, 1986-

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  Also available as an audiobook. "On the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Inventing Latinos

  a New Story of American Racism

  Gómez, Laura E., 1964-

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  Also available as an audiobook. "Who are Latinos and where do they fit in America's racial order? Laura E. Gomez, a leading critical race scholar, argues that it is only recently that Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Central…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Harvest of Empire

  a History of Latinos in America

  González, Juan, 1947-

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  Also available as an audiobook. "The first new edition in ten years of this important study of Latinos in U.S. history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries—from the European colonization of the Americas to through the 2020 election...With family…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Making of Asian America

  a History

  Lee, Erika,

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  Also available as an audiobook. "An epic history of global journeys and new beginnings, this book shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life in the United States: sailors…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Made in Asian America

  a History for Young People

  Lee, Erika,

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  Young readers' version of the title described above.

• We Gon' Be Alright

  Notes on Race and Resegregation

  Chang, Jeff,

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  "This wide-ranging collection of essays features Chang’s incisive perspective on the protest movements and racial turbulence of the past decade. He shows how segregation, far from being a thing of the past, continues to rear its head and affects the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry

  the Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement

  Yoo, Paula,

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  Also available as an audiobook. "A compelling account of the killing of Vincent Chin, the verdicts that took the Asian American community to the streets in protest, and the groundbreaking civil rights trial that followed." - Norton Young Readers

• War Against All Puerto Ricans

  Revolution and Terror in America's Colony

  Denis, Nelson A.,

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  Also available as an audiobook. "War Against All Puerto Ricans tells an undiscovered story: the violent and shocking history, of Puerto Rico–US relations for the past 118 years. The book traces the life of Pedro Albizu Campos and the Puerto Rican…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

  and Other Conversations About Race

  Tatum, Beverly Daniel,

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  Also available as an audiobook. "The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America. Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• March. Book One

  Lewis, John, 1940-2020,

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  A first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, up to the 1963 March on Washington.