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Ta-Nehisi Coates - A Unique Take on a Familiar World in “The Water Dancer” | The Daily Show

By Oprah Winfrey — 2019

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates shares how it felt to have Oprah pick his novel “The Water Dancer” for her book club.

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Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914–1965

The first major study to consider Black women’s activism in rural Arkansas, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps foregrounds activists’ quest to improve Black communities through language and foodways as well as politics and community organizing.

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Cherisse Jones-Branch
2021
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Picturing Resistance: Moments and Movements of Social Change from the 1950s to Today

A powerful commemoration of notable moments of protest, Picturing Resistance highlights the important American social justice movements of the last seven decades.

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Melanie Light, Ken Light
2020
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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

In 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful entrance into the national conversation on race. In a media landscape dominated by racially biased images of welfare queens and crack babies, Killing the Black Body exposed America’s systemic abuse of Black women’s bodies.

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Dorothy Roberts
1998
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Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850–1954: An Intellectual History

Evans chronicles the stories of African American women who struggled for and won access to formal education, beginning in 1850, when Lucy Stanton, a student at Oberlin College, earned the first college diploma conferred on an African American woman.

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Stephanie Y. Evans
2008
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Women, Race & Class

A powerful study of the women's liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. From the widely revered and legendary political activist and scholar Angela Davis.

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Angela Y. Davis
1983
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