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Selections from the Schomburg Shop

By Lisa Herndon, Manager, Schomburg Communications and Publications
June 3, 2020
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Note: These books and others are part of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation List.

Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Claudia Rankine's Citizen: American Lyric, and James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time are some of the books on the Schomburg Center’s Black Liberation Reading List. Rio Cortez, manager and creative coordinator at the Schomburg Shop, curated a selection of must-reads. To see what other picks are on her dynamic and continually updating list, visit the Schomburg Shop.

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The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

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The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton

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Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown

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Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds

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The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

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From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

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Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith

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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

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Parenting for Liberation by Trina Greene Brown

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Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

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The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

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Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice by Elizabeth Acevedo, Mahogany L. Browne, and Olivia Gatwood

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A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara

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The Undefeated

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Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

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Step Into Your Power by Jamia Wilson

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I Am Enough by Grace Byers

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March: Book One by Andrew Aydin, John Lewis, and Nate Powell

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Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi

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