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Reading for Understanding: Book Vote 2023
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A Black Woman’s History of the U.S. Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America David K. Shipler
A People’s History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, and Play Dave Zirin
African American and LatinX History of the U.S. Paul Ortiz
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States Erika Lee
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States Kyle T. Mays
An Uncommon Faith: A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of African American Religion Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the Us Geneva Smitherman and H. Samy Alim
At the Dark End of the Street Daniielle McGuire
At The River I Stand Joan Turner Beifuss
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s American and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own Glaude
Black Magic Chad Sanders
Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race through the Eyes of the Blind Osagie K. Obasogie
Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics Lundy Braun
Colored People Henry Louis Gates
Conversations in Black Ed Gordon
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America Nicole Eustace
Dear White Peacemakers Osheta Moore
Democracy in Black Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century Alice Wong
Diversity, Inc. Pamela Newkirk
Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith
Down Along with That Devil’s Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy Connor Towne O’Neill
Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights Gretchen Sorin
Ebony and Ivy Craig Steven Wilder
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond
Freeman Leonard Pitts Jr.
Half of a Yellow Sun: A Novel Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America Juan Gonzalez
Heavy Kiese Laymon
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing Ben Austin
Homeland Elegies Ayad Akhtar
How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America Priya Fielding-Singh, PhD
How to Fight Anti-Semitism Bari Weiss
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Roxane Gay
In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History Mitch Landrieo, Former Mayor of New Orleans
Indigenous People’s History of the U.S. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Inventing Latinos Laura E. Gómez
Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism Laura E. Gomez
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City Andrea Elliott
Just Pursuit Laura Coates
Just Us Claudia Rankine
Kinship: A Family’s Journey in Africa and America Philippe Wamba
Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil Susan Nieman
Living While Black: Using Joy, Beauty, and Connection to Heal Racial Trauma Guilaine Kinouani
Long Division Kiese Laymon
Love Songs of WEB DuBois Honoree Fannone Jeffers
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Harriet A. Washington
Murder State: California’s Native American Genocide, 1846-1873 Brendon C. Lindsay
My Grandmother's Hands Resmaa Menakem
Nice Racism Robin DiAngelo
Nobody’s Magic: A Novel Destiny O. Birdsong
Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Of Fear of Strangers: A History of Xenophobia George Makari
One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race Yaba Blay
Organized Labor and the Black Worker (1619 – 1981) Philip S. Foner
Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity Ella Edmondson Bell and Stella Nkomo
Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler
Policing Black Lives Angela Hattery and Earl Smith
Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom Sarah A. Seo
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing Joy A. Degrup
Race After Technology Ruha Benjamin
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields
Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Robert E Lee and Me Ty Seidule
Sankofa: A Novel Chibundu Onuzo
Say it Louder: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy Tiffany D. Cross
Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare Dorothy Roberts
Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction Jim Downs
Slavery by Another Name Douglas A. Blackmon
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Douglas A. Blackmon
Slaves in the Family Edward Ball
Stride for Freedom Dr. King
Such a Fun Age Kiley Reid
Surviving the White Gaze Rebecca Carroll
The 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones and others
The Color of Money Mehrsa Baradaran
The Color of Sandy E. C. Merritt
The Condemnation of Blackness Khalil Gibran Muhammad
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X Les Payne and Tamara Payne
The Deepest South of All: The Stories from Natchez, Mississippi Richard Grant
The Essential Kerner Commission Jelani Cobb
The Heritage: Black Athletes, A Divided Nation and the Politics of Patriotism Howard Bryant
The History of White People Nell Irvin Painter
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America Andres Resendez
The Penalty for Success: My Father was Lynched in Lowndes County, Alabama Josephine Bolling McCall
The Price for their Pound of Flesh Daina Ramey Berry
The Race Beat: The Press, The Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
The Religion of White Rage: Religious Fervor, White Workers and the Myth of Black Racial Progress Stephen Finley, et al
The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America Carol Anderson
The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power Desmond Cole
The Sunflower Simon Wiesenthal
The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson Chris Joyner
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped A Nation Anna Malaika Tubbs
The Whiteness of Wealth Dorothy A. Brown
They Were Her Property Stephanie Jones-Rogers
Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture Emma Dabiri
Unbound Tarana Burke
Until I Am Free Keisha Blain
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All Martha S. Jones
Washington Black: A Novel Esi Edugyan
White too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Robert P. Jones
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? What it Means to Be Black Now Touré Neblett
Why We Can’t Wait Dr. King
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