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20 Books That Have Changed the Way We Think About Race in America

• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
• Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
• Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
• Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir by Daniel R. Day
• Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
• Another Country by James Baldwin
• The Death of Rhythm & Blues by Nelson George
• Corregidora by Gayl Jones
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 
• The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom
• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
• There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker
• Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown
• Native Son by Richard Wright