Race and identity books
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- The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young GirlAnne Frank1944 - The New Jim Crow
The New Jim CrowMichelle Alexander2000 - The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next TimeJames Baldwin1962 - The Story of My Experiments With Truth, Volume 2
The Story of My Experiments With Truth, Volume 2Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi1927 - Between the World and Me
Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates2015 - A Raisin In the Sun
A Raisin In the SunLorraine Hansberry1958 - How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an AntiracistIbram X. Kendi2019 - White Fragility
White FragilityRobin J. DiAngelo2018 - Dreams from my father
Dreams from my fatherBarack Obama1995 - Assata
AssataAssata Shakur1987 - A Different Mirror
A Different MirrorRonald Takaki1993 - Borderlands/La Frontera
Borderlands/La FronteraGloria Anzaldúa1987 - Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Native SonJames Baldwin1955 - Women, race & class
Women, race & classAngela Y. Davis1981 - So you want to talk about race
So you want to talk about raceIjeoma Oluo2018 - The Warmth of Other Suns
The Warmth of Other SunsIsabel Wilkerson2010 - Caste
CasteIsabel Wilkerson2020 - Fences
FencesAugust Wilson1986 - Black skin white masks
Black skin white masksFrantz Fanon1952 - Hood Feminism
Hood FeminismMikki Kendall2020 - Child of the Dark
Child of the DarkCarolina Maria de Jesus1960 - Empire of the summer moon
Empire of the summer moonS. C. Gwynne2010 - The color of law
The color of lawRichard Rothstein2017 - Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Black Rednecks and White LiberalsThomas Sowell2005
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