Lists and Suggestions
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List: Winter Reading: Social Justice
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Rothstein, Richard, author.
The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes it clear that it was de jure segregation--the laws and polic...
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Elliott, Alicia
"The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated to "a mind spread out on the g...
Please See Us
Mullen, Caitlin, author.
Summer has come to Atlantic City but the boardwalk is empty of tourists, the casino lights have dim...
The City We Became
Jemisin, N. K., author.
"Five New Yorkers must come together in order to save their city from destruction in the first...
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
Jones, Saeed, author.
Haunted and haunting, Jones's memoir tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South...
Memorial
Washington, Bryan.
Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant. Benson is a Black day care teacher. They&#...
Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
Moore, Wes, 1978- author.
"When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an 'illegal knife' in April 2015, he ...
Your House Will Pay
Cha, Steph, author.
"In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, Los Angeles is as tense as it's ...
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
Petersen, Anne Helen, author.
"From celebrity gossip expert and Buzzfeed culture writer Anne Helen Petersen comes an accessi...
Notorious RBG : The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Carmon, Irin, author.
"Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers a visually rich, intimate, un...
March: Book One
Lewis, John, 1940-2020.
A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his you...
Freshwater
Emezi, Akwaeke, author.
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self...
Good Kings Bad Kings
Nussbaum, Susan.
The residents at a facility for disabled young people in Chicago build trust and make friends in an...
The Hate U Give
Thomas, Angie, author.
After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life...
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Wong, Alice, 1974- editor.
"A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern ...
The Making of Black Lives Matter
Lebron, Christopher J., author.
Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #...
The Muslims are Coming! : Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror
Kundnani, Arun.
"Following the killing of Osama bin Laden, polls showed that Americans were more anxious about...
Confessions of the Fox
Rosenberg, Jordy, author.
"Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines t...
We Cast a Shadow
Ruffin, Maurice Carlos, author.
"In a near-future Southern city, everyone is talking about a new experimental medical procedur...
