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Ibram X. Kendi Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Ibram X. Kendi is an author, historian and activist. Scholar @BU_Tweets • Director @AntiracismCtr • @NationalBook Award Winner for #Stamped • #1 NYT Bestselling Author of #HowToBeAnAntiracist • MacArthur Fellow 🐍

41 books
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 PerryIbram X. KendiIbram X. Kendi

SOUTH TO AMERICA by @imaniperry comes out today. Professor Perry takes readers on an insightful and inspiring journey through the South, showing us that the region isn’t some backwater, but a central river where American history and identity flows. Take a look. What a book. 🙏🏾 https://t.co/AdIOG8lSXr

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi

How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. KendiIbram X. KendiIbram X. Kendi

"I wish everyone would read How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. This book by Dr. Kendi has been called the most courageous book on racism to date, and rightfully so. It should be essential reading in every household." Thank you, @angiecthomas. https://t.co/WkKHWgiDx3

Paperback, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Tragic Era: The Revolution After Lincoln, Claude G. Bowers

The Tragic Era: The Revolution After Lincoln

Claude G. BowersIbram X. KendiIbram X. Kendi

According to Du Bois’s biographer, David Levering Lewis, the “immediate goad” for Du Bois’s book on reconstruction had been The Tragic Era: The Revolution After Lincoln, a 1929 runaway bestseller written by a political operative and editor named Claude G. Bowers. 2/5

Paperback, 2001

$41.95$20.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: My Seven Black Fathers: A Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Me Whole, Will Jawando

My Seven Black Fathers: A Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Me Whole

Will JawandoIbram X. KendiIbram X. Kendi

Yesterday was the book birthday of #MySevenBlackFathers, a gripping story about the seven mentors that guided @willjawando. This is a story we need to hear. It takes a village. https://t.co/HSv0lJrsTT

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom, Derecka Purnell

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

Derecka PurnellIbram X. KendiIbram X. Kendi

To Michelle Alexander it is “essential reading.” To @prisonculture and @BarbaraRansby it is a “must read.” Robin D.G. Kelley called it “genuinely revolutionary.” It’s a good day because BECOMING ABOLITIONISTS by @dereckapurnell drops today. https://t.co/ykZmLOL6CR

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: March: Book Three, John Lewis

March: Book Three

John LewisIbram X. KendiIbram X. Kendi

But the highlight of my night wasn't winning. It was witnessing the conscience of the United States Congress, John Lewis, win for his graphic novel, March: Book Three. 3/5 https://t.co/UUpz0m1Tii

Paperback, 2016

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Making of Butterflies, Zora Neale Hurston

The Making of Butterflies

Zora Neale HurstonIbram X. KendiIbram X. Kendi

THE MAKING OF BUTTERFLIES is an enchanting board book, based on a fascinating folktale that the legendary Zora Neale Hurston collected, with captivating illustrations by @KahYangni. I’m deeply honored to share that #THEMAKINGOFBUTTERFLIES is out today! 🦋 https://t.co/3qL7HWLf4V https://t.co/JV4iJf1Vcf

Board Book, 2023

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience, Brené Brown

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

Brené BrownIbram X. KendiIbram X. Kendi

Congrats! I know the book that changes the person who wrote it will change the people who read it. So glad ATLAS OF THE HEART is out in the world. ❤️ https://twitter.com/brenebrown/status/1465750586062745600

Hardcover, 2021

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: What Sorrows Labour in My Parent's Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family, Brenda E. Stevenson

What Sorrows Labour in My Parent's Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family

Brenda E. StevensonIbram X. KendiIbram X. Kendi

"Enslavement did not destroy the Black family," said historian Brenda Stevenson, author of WHAT SORROWS LABOUR IN MY PARENT'S BREAST, a new history book on the enslaved Black family. "Black people survived and survive today because of families." https://t.co/fofUZDtzQs

Hardcover, 2023

$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Washington State Rising: Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest, Marc Arsell Robinson

Washington State Rising: Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest

Marc Arsell RobinsonIbram X. KendiIbram X. Kendi

Marc Arsell Robinson's new book, "Washington State Rising," explores the Black campus movement in the Pacific Northwest. While the work of the region's student activists has been considered "marginal," Robinson hopes to remedy that. https://t.co/n1FjVnXjr7

Hardcover, 2023

$99.00$74.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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