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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by
Beverly Daniel Tatum
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Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
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Women, Race, & Class by Angela Davis
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Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
by Safiya Umoja Noble
How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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An African American and Latinx History of the United States by
Paul Ortiz
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
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Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks
Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richarda Rothstein
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
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Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy by Darryl Pinckney
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
by Grace Lee Boggs
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
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Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Haney López
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
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Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington
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Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by John Hoberman
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Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens
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Black Man in a White Coat by Damon Tweedy
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Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
Dána-Ain Davis
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Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson
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Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge by Linda Nash
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Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice (Urban and Industrial Environments) by Julie Sze
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Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes by Gregg Mitman
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Black Liberation Reads
Racism & Health
Clearing the Plains by James W. Daschuk
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Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
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The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King
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Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir by Deborah Miranda
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Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
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How We Became Human by Joy Harjo
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Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in A Northern City by Tanya Talaga
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Heart Berries by Terese Mailhot
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American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World by David Stannard
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Children of the Broken Treaty by Angus, Charlie
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Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
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Keetsahnak: Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters
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The Reconciliation Manifesto by Arthur Manuel
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The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez
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Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World by Linda Hogan
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Anti-colonization & Indigenous Reads
A Terrible Thing To Waste: Environmental Racism And Its Assault On The American Mind by Harriet A. Washington
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As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
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Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger by Julie Sze
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Climate Change From the Streets by Michael Méndez
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Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial edited by Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra and Sarah Jaquette Ray
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Full Spectrum Resistance by Aric McBay
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Indigenous Environmental Justice edited by Karen Jarratt-Snider and Marianne O. Nielsen
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Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation by Candy J. Cooper with Marc Aronson
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Unearthing Justice: How to Protect Your Community From the Mining Industry by Joan Kuyek
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Whose Water Is It, Anyway? Taking Water Protection Into Public Hands by Maude Barlow
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Standing With Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement edited by Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon
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One Earth: People of Color Protecting Our Planet by Anuradha Rao
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Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
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Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet by Nina Lakhani
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Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility by Dorceta Taylor
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Dumping In Dixie: Race, Class, And Environmental Quality, Third Edition by Robert D. Bullard
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Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest by Laura Pulido
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Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980 by Andrew Hurley
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If You Poison Us: Uranium and Native Americans by Peter H. Eichstaedt
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Packing Them In: An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Chicago, 1865-1954 by Sylvia Hood Washington
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Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement by Robert Gottlieb
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Environmental Racism & Justice
Wellness and Healing for BIPOC
The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health: Navigate an Unequal System, Learn Tools for Emotional Wellness, and Get the Help you Deserve by Rheeda Walker, Ph.D.
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Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience by Sheila Wise Rowe
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Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing by Suzanne Methot
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The State of Black Girls: A Go-To Guide for Creating Safe Space for Black Girls by Marline Francois-Madden, L.C.S.W.
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Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing by Renee Linklater
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Black Women’s Mental Health: Balancing Strength and Vulnerability edited by Stephanie Y. Evans, Ph.D.
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Soothe Your Nerves: The Black Woman’s Guide to Understanding and Overcoming Anxiety, Panic, and Fear by Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D.
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My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem, M.S.W.
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy DeGruy, Ph.D.
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