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Book Cover for: Hell If We Don't Change Our Ways: A Memoir, Brittany Means

Hell If We Don't Change Our Ways: A Memoir

Brittany Means
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The book's lasting impact might be what it demands of the memoir genre. Brittany Means has, at once, created the most readable and the most psychologically rigorous book I've read in decades. I needed the reminder that art can do this.

Hardcover, 2023

$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Another Country, James Baldwin

Another Country

James Baldwin
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RT @edpavlic: Many thanks to Kyra Lise for reminding of this big birthday. Happy 60th to James Baldwin’s incredible novel ANOTHER COUNTRY,…

Paperback, 1992

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Big Girl, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Big Girl

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
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All the feels. All the chills. All the genius like a mug.

Paperback, 2023

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water, Angie Cruz

How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

Angie Cruz
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right on time

Paperback, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Perfect Black, Crystal Wilkinson

Perfect Black

Crystal Wilkinson
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This is family. And my gawd, this book, Perfect Black, is stunning https://twitter.com/CrystalWilki/status/1495939141569331206

Paperback, 2021

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin, Hafizah Augustus Geter

The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin

Hafizah Augustus Geter
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I dare you to read this and not be profoundly changed. One of them.

Paperback, 2023

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: A Living Remedy: A Memoir, Nicole Chung

A Living Remedy: A Memoir

Nicole Chung
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Nicole Chung wrote the w!$zzh$hdx*jui<e out of this book. Geeeeezus. A Living Remedy.

Hardcover, 2023

$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, Imani Perry

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Imani Perry
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It is SOUTH TO AMERICA day/week/year in this house. Peep the birth of a new genre. Imani Perry put all her feets in this one.

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America, Adam Serwer

The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America

Adam Serwer
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Adam Server was literally my first student and this weekend I blurbed a book he wrote that happens to be the most lush rigorous book I will ever read on how this place made Trump, and what that making will do to us forever. The Cruelty is The Point. I'm so mushy right now.

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Book Cover for: The Unsettled, Ayana Mathis

The Unsettled

Ayana Mathis
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Ayana Mathis's skill and creative gumption are just beyond this plane

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