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The Sun Does Shine
How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection)
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection
The Instant New York Times Bestseller
A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.
“An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores...
The War on Neighborhoods
Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a Divided City
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
A narrative-driven exploration of policing and the punishment of disadvantage in Chicago, and a new vision for repairing urban neighborhoods
For people of color who live in segregated urban neighborhoods, surviving crime and violence is a generational reality. As violence in cities like New...
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Edited and with Notes by Shelly Eversley
Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr
In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved...
White Identity
Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Ten years in the making, this book is the sequel to Jared Taylor's seminal Paved With Good Intentions. In White Identity, Taylor systematically marshals the data to show that:
People of all races pay lip service to the ideal of integration but generally prefer to remain apart.
Study after scientific...
Common Ground
A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked,...
The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2
The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, Martin Luther King outlined a dream of an America where people would not be judged by the color of their skin. That dream has yet to be realized, but some three centuries ago it was a reality. Back then, neither social practice nor law recognized any special...
by Booker T. Washington
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic...
One Drop
My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2007
In this acclaimed memoir, Bliss Broyard, daughter of the literary critic Anatole Broyard, examines her father's choice to hide his racial identity, and the impact of this revelation on her own life.
Two months before he died, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter...
Confederacy of Silence
A True Tale of the New Old South
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
A compelling and vivid portrait of a Deep South community poised between the past and the future, this is the stunning true story of how a young New York writer plunged into a closed Mississippi society, and what happened when he came out on the other side.
Fresh out of the Ivy League, New...
Beyond Freedom
Disrupting the History of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of...
We Were Eight Years in Power
An American Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
**In this “urgently relevant”* collection featuring the landmark essay “The Case for Reparations,” the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath”*—including the election of Donald Trump.
New...
by Library of Congress
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Typewritten records prepared by the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938, assembled by the Library of Congress Project, Work Projects Administration (WPA), sponsored by the Library of Congress, and first published in 1941. As explained in the introduction: "The present Library of Congress Project, under...
3,096 Days in Captivity
The True Story of My Abduction, Eight Years of Enslavement,and Escape
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
On March 2, 1998, ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped, and found herself locked in a house that would be her home for the next eight years. She was starved, beaten, treated as a slave, and forced to work for her deranged captor. But she never forgot who she was-and she never gave up hope of returning to the world. This is her story.
by Chris Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
**New York Times Bestseller
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
"An essential and groundbreaking text in the effort to understand how American criminal justice went so badly awry." —Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me**
In A Colony in a Nation, New York Times...