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• Monster Portraits

  Samatar, Sofia

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  Monster Portraits investigates the concept of the monstrous through a mesmerizing combination of words and images. An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Fool's Errand

  Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump

  Bunch, Lonnie G,

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  Founding Director Lonnie Bunch's inside story of how the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture was created. By turns inspiring, funny, frustrating, quixotic, and bittersweet, this is his deeply personal tale…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stay Woke

  a Meditation Guide for the Rest of Us

  Williams, Justin Michael,

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  An entertaining no-BS, how-to guide that ignites purposeful action driven by the clarity of meditation. It is about bringing meditation to people who are yearning to move up in the world -meditation for achievement driven, success-minded,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Not Your White Jesus

  Following a Radical, Refugee Messiah

  Rosendahl, Sheri DiGiacinto,

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  Jesus is not white. Jesus is not American. Jesus does not want to make America great. While many of us grew up looking at gleaming portraits of Jesus with blond, flowing hair and hearing sermons reaffirming that we have the answers to save…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mixed-race Superman

  Keanu, Obama, and Multiracial Experience

  Harris, Will

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  Drawing on his own personal experience and examining the way Barack Obama and Keanu Reeves have been embedded in our collective consciousness, Harris asks what they can teach us about race and heroism - and what it means to be of mixed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rising Up

  the Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice

  Kolhatkar, Sonali,

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  Even though people of color are fast becoming the majority population in the United States, the perspectives and privileges of white America still dominate our key narrative-setting institutions and industries. People of color, long shut…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Birth of a Nation

  How a Legendary Director and a Crusading Editor Reignited America's Civil War

  Lehr, Dick

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  In 1915, two men--one a journalist agitator, the other a technically brilliant filmmaker--incited a public confrontation that roiled America, pitting black against white, Hollywood against Boston, and free speech against civil rights. This…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Futures

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  Black Futures is a collection of work--art, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, tweets, poetry, and more--that tells the story of the radical, imaginative, bold, and beautiful world that black artists, high and low, are producing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black History in Its Own Words

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  Black History In Its Own Words started in January 2015 when Matt Bors asked me to find eight quotes and illustrate them for The Nib for February, Black History Month. I chose quotes ranging from the casual to the profound from luminaries…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Surrender, White People!

  Our Unconditional Terms for Peace

  Hughley, D. L. (Darryl L.), 1963-

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  Following-up his New York Times bestseller How Not to Get Shot, comedy legend D.L. Hughley offers satirical terms for a peace treaty between white America and the rest of humanity.

• White Negroes

  When Cornrows Were in Vogue ... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation

  Jackson, Lauren Michele, 1991-

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  This book provides a cultural, political, and social survey through the most American of pastimes that continues to thrive today. With narrative, accessible criticism, research, and popular cultural touchstones we can all recognize, I'd…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Full Dissidence

  Notes From An Uneven Playing Field

  Bryant, Howard, 1968-

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  Full Dissidence is a collection of essays focusing on the corporate assault on civil liberties, collisions of race and identity, and the kleptocracy of the Trump White House has forced America to ask itself if its beliefs of freedom and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Move on Up

  Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power

  Cohen, Aaron (Writer on music),

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  Chicago's place in the history of soul music is rock solid. But for Chicagoans, soul music in its heyday from the 1960s to the 1980s was more than just a series of hits: it was a marker and a source of black empowerment. In Move On Up ,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rap on Trial

  Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America

  Nielson, Erik, 1976-

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  A groundbreaking exposé about the alarming use of rap lyrics as criminal evidence to convict and incarcerate young men of color.

• The Toni Morrison Book Club

  Bennett, Juda, 1955-

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  What is a book club but an excuse to talk to friends? The Toni Morrison Book Club brings that experience to life by telling the story of four friends who turn to Toni Morrison as they search for meaning in their lives. In this startling…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Twisted

  the Tangled History of Black Hair Culture

  Dabiri, Emma

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  Despite increasingly liberal world views, black hair continues to be erased, appropriated, and stigmatized to the point of taboo. Through her personal and historical journey, Dabiri gleans insights into the way racism is coded in society's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Getting What We Need Ourselves

  How Food Has Shaped African American Life

  Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974-

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  Traces the history of African American food habits from West African origins through the twenty-first century, offering a unique set of insights into the daily concerns of black people in the US. The book demonstrates that from capture and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bound to the Fire

  How Virginia's Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine

  Deetz, Kelley Fanto,

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  Kelley Fanto Deetz draws upon archaeological evidence, cookbooks, plantation records, and folklore to present a nuanced study of the lives of enslaved plantation cooks from colonial times through emancipation and beyond. She reveals how…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• High on the Hog

  a Culinary Journey From Africa to America

  Harris, Jessica B.

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  Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris has spent much of her life researching the food and foodways of the African Diaspora. High on the Hog is the culmination of years of her work, and the result is a most engaging history of African…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Rise

  Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food

  Samuelsson, Marcus

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  It is long past time to recognize Black excellence in the culinary world the same way it has been celebrated in the worlds of music, sports, literature, film, and the arts. Black cooks and creators have led American culture forward with…Read moreRead more of this annotation