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Antiracist Reading

    Caste

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    White Fragility

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    So You Want to Talk About Race

    So You Want to Talk About Race

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    Between the World and Me

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    How to Be an Antiracist

    How to Be an Antiracist

    by Ibram X. Kendi

Antiracist Reading

    Caste

    Caste

    by Isabel Wilkerson
    White Fragility

    White Fragility

    by Robin Diangelo
    So You Want to Talk About Race

    So You Want to Talk About Race

    by Ijeoma Oluo
    Between the World and Me

    Between the World and Me

    by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Activism

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    Our Time is Now

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    Just Merch

    by Bryan Stevenson
    This Book Is Anti-Racist

    This Book Is Anti-Racist

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    Pleasure Activism

    by adrienne maree brown
    In Praise of Difficult Women

    In Praise of Difficult Women

    by Karen Karbo

Activism

    Our Time is Now

    Our Time is Now

    by Stacey Abrams
    Just Merch

    Just Merch

    by Bryan Stevenson
    This Book Is Anti-Racist

    This Book Is Anti-Racist

    by Tiffany Jewell
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    Pleasure Activism

    by adrienne maree brown

University Press Week

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    Infinite Cities

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    After the Blast

    After the Blast

    by Eric Wagner
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    Atomic Doctors

    by James L. Nolan
    Capital and Ideology

    Capital and Ideology

    by Thomas Piketty
    Shapes of Native Nonfiction

    Shapes of Native Nonfiction

    by Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton

University Press Week

    Infinite Cities

    Infinite Cities

    by Rebecca Solnit, Joshua Jelly Schapiro, and Rebecca Snedeker
    After the Blast

    After the Blast

    by Eric Wagner
    Atomic Doctors

    Atomic Doctors

    by James L. Nolan
    Capital and Ideology

    Capital and Ideology

    by Thomas Piketty

Environmental Racism

    The Yellow House

    The Yellow House

    by Sarah M. Broom
    Black Faces, White Spaces

    Black Faces, White Spaces

    by Carolyn Finney
    The Earth Is Weeping

    The Earth Is Weeping

    by Peter Cozzens
    The Good Ancestor

    The Good Ancestor

    by Roman Krznaric
    ¡No Se Vende!

    ¡No Se Vende!

    by Kay Matthews

Environmental Racism

    The Yellow House

    The Yellow House

    by Sarah M. Broom
    Black Faces, White Spaces

    Black Faces, White Spaces

    by Carolyn Finney
    The Earth Is Weeping

    The Earth Is Weeping

    by Peter Cozzens
    The Good Ancestor

    The Good Ancestor

    by Roman Krznaric

Police, Prisons, and Power

    The Color of Law

    The Color of Law

    by Richard Rothstein
    Hiding in Plain Sight

    Hiding in Plain Sight

    by Sarah Kendzior
    The Black and the Blue

    The Black and the Blue

    by Matthew Horace and Ron Harris
    When We Fight, We Win!

    When We Fight, We Win!

    by Greg Jobin-Leeds and AgitArte
    Street Journalist

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    by Lisa Loving

Police, Prisons, and Power

    The Color of Law

    The Color of Law

    by Richard Rothstein
    Hiding in Plain Sight

    Hiding in Plain Sight

    by Sarah Kendzior
    The Black and the Blue

    The Black and the Blue

    by Matthew Horace and Ron Harris
    When We Fight, We Win!

    When We Fight, We Win!

    by Greg Jobin-Leeds and AgitArte

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

    Underground in Berlin

    Underground in Berlin

    by Marie Jalowicz Simon, Anthea Bell, and Hermann Simon
    Trieste

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    by Daša Drndic
    Survival in Auschwitz

    Survival in Auschwitz

    by Primo Levi
    Not I

    Not I

    by Joachim Fest
    In Memory's Kitchen

    In Memory's Kitchen

    by Cara De Silva

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

    Underground in Berlin

    Underground in Berlin

    by Marie Jalowicz Simon, Anthea Bell, and Hermann Simon
    Trieste

    Trieste

    by Daša Drndic
    Survival in Auschwitz

    Survival in Auschwitz

    by Primo Levi
    Not I

    Not I

    by Joachim Fest

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