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One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy By Carol Anderson, Dick Durbin (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Carol Anderson, Dick Durbin (Foreword by)
$27.00
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ISBN: 9781635571370
Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - September 11th, 2018

As featured in the documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy

Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
Longlisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction
An NPR Politics Podcast Book Club Choice
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by:


Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness (Ordinary Terrible Things) By Anastasia Higginbotham Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9781948340007
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Published: Dottir Press - September 4th, 2018

An honest explanation about how power and privilege factor into the lives of white children, at the expense of other groups, and how they can help seek justice. --THE NEW YORK TIMES

ONE OF HUFFPOST'S RECOMMENDED ANTI-RACIST BOOKS FOR KIDS AND TEENS

**A WHITE RAVEN 2019 SELECTION**


Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography By Audre Lorde Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780895941220
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Published: Crossing Press - January 1st, 1982

Zami: A Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers


Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change By Stacey Abrams Cover Image
$28.00
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ISBN: 9781250191298
Published: Henry Holt and Co. - April 24th, 2018

Minority Leader is a necessary guide to harnessing the strengths of being an outsider by Stacey Abrams, one of the most prominent black female politicians in the U.S.


C is for Consent By Eleanor Morrison, Faye Orlove (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Eleanor Morrison, Faye Orlove (Illustrator)
$14.95
ISBN: 9780999890806
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Published: Phonics with Finn - May 1st, 2018

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism By Dr. Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by) Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780807047415
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Published: Beacon Press - June 26th, 2018

The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.


The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love By Sonya Renee Taylor Cover Image
$18.95
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ISBN: 9781626569768
Published: Berrett-Koehler Publishers - February 13th, 2018

"To build a world that works for everyone, we must first make the radical decision to love every facet of ourselves...'The body is not an apology' is the mantra we should all embrace." 
--Kimberlé Crenshaw, legal scholar and founder and Executive Director, African American Policy Forum 


Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger By Rebecca Traister Cover Image
$27.00
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ISBN: 9781501181795
Published: S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books - October 2nd, 2018

***NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***

***BEST BOOKS OF 2018 SELECTION BY***
* WASHINGTON POST * People * NPR * ESQUIRE * ELLE * WIRED * REFINERY 29 *

“In a year when issues of gender and sexuality dominated the national conversation, no one shaped that exchange more than Rebecca Traister.


A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns (Quick & Easy Guides) By Archie Bongiovanni, Tristan Jimerson, Archie Bongiovanni (Illustrator) Cover Image
$9.99
ISBN: 9781620104996
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Published: Limerence Press - June 12th, 2018

A quick, easy and important educational comic guide to using gender-neutral pronouns.

"A great, simple look at the importance of using correct pronouns; extremely accessible to those for whom gender-neutral language is a new concept." –– School Library Journal (starred review)

Archie, a snarky genderqueer artist, is tired of people no


A is for Activist By Innosanto Nagara Cover Image
$11.95
ISBN: 9781609805395
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Published: Triangle Square - November 19th, 2013

One of NPR's Top 100 Book for Young Readers 

“Reading it is almost like reading Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, but for two-year olds—full of pictures and rhymes and a little cat to find on every page that will delight the curious toddler and parents alike.”—Occupy Wall Street