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• They Can't Kill Us All

  Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement

  Lowery, Wesley, 1990-

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  “...The protest chants were never meant to assert the innocence of every slain black man and woman. The protests were an assertion of their humanity and a demand for a system of policing and justice that was transparent, equitable, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Color of Law

  a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

  Rothstein, Richard,

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  “Today’s residential segregation in the North, South, Midwest, and West is not the unintended consequence of individual choices and of otherwise well-meaning law or regulation but of unhidden public policy that explicitly segregated every…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Between the World and Me

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi,

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  “Perhaps there has been, at some point in history, some great power whose elevation was exempt from the violent exploitation of other human bodies. If there has been, I have yet to discover it. But this banality of violence can never…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Race Matters

  West, Cornel,

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  “Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority." Cornel West

• Citizen

  An American Lyric

  Rankine, Claudia, 1963-

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  “because white men can't police their imagination black men are dying” Claudia Rankine National Book Critics Circle Award Winner for Poetry

• The Tradition

  Brown, Jericho,

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  “I promise if you hear Of me dead anywhere near A cop, then that cop killed me.” Jericho Brown 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry This book is available as both an ebook and a downloadable audiobook through Hoopla.

• Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

  Eddo-Lodge, Reni,

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  “White people are so used to seeing a reflection of themselves in all representations of humanity at all times, that they only notice it when it’s taken away from them.” Reni Eddo-Lodge

• James Baldwin

  the Last Interview and Other Conversations

  Baldwin, James, 1924-1987,

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  “It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.” James Baldwin

• I'm Still Here

  Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

  Brown, Austin Channing,

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  “Our only change at dismantling racial injustice is being more curious about its origins than we are worried about our comfort. It's not a comfortable conversation for any of us. It is risky and messy. It is haunting work to recall the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The New Jim Crow

  Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

  Alexander, Michelle,

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  “As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep them locked up and locked out says far more about ourselves than it does about them.” Michelle Alexander

• Stamped From the Beginning

  the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

  Kendi, Ibram X.,

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  “Already, the American mind was accomplishing that indispensable intellectual activity of someone consumed with racist ideas: individualizing White negativity and generalizing Black negativity. Negative behavior by any Black person became…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Be An Antiracist

  Kendi, Ibram X.,

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  “One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an antiracist. There is no in-between safe space of “not racist.” The claim of “not racist” neutrality is a mask for racism.” Ibram X. Kendi

• So You Want to Talk About Race

  Oluo, Ijeoma,

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  “Being privileged doesn't mean that you are always wrong and people without privilege are always right. It means that there is a good chance you are missing a few very important pieces of the puzzle.” Ijeoma Oluo

• Me and White Supremacy

  Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

  Saad, Layla F.,

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  “Here is a radical idea that I would like you to understand: white silence is violence. It actively protects the system. It says I am okay with the way things are because they do not negatively affect me and because I enjoy the benefits I…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• White Fragility

  Why It's So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism

  DiAngelo, Robin, 1956-

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  "...stopping our racist patterns must be more important than working to convince others that we don't have them. We do have them, and people of color already know we have them; our efforts to prove otherwise are not convincing. An honest…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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