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Best Books by Black and POC Authors

My Top Books to Read First (and make sure to purchase from a Black-owned bookstore!)

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

This is singlehandledly the best book I have read about having conversations about racism

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A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

This iconic text is a cornerstone of educating yourself about the invisible parties of American

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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by  Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by  Isabel Wilkerson

A lot of fuss has been made about Caste and it lives up

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness

This was the first book that really radicalized

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Suggest The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Suggest The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Any step towards understanding the black experience in America

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The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotype is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. they make one story become the only story.

– chimamanda ngozi adichie

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