Karen Chilton

82 books

Light It Up by Kekla Magoon

Light It Up

How It Went Down #2

Kekla Magoon

368 pages • hardcover • 2019

fiction contemporary young adult dark informative medium-paced
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

797 pages • hardcover • 2021

fiction historical literary challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Misbehaving at the Crossroads by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Misbehaving at the Crossroads

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

336 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction essays race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Moonrise Over New Jessup by Jamila Minnicks

Moonrise Over New Jessup

Jamila Minnicks

324 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction historical emotional reflective slow-paced
Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination by Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter S. Onuf

Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter S. Onuf

400 pages • paperback • 2016

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement by Willie Mae Brown

My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement

Willie Mae Brown

240 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction history memoir middle grade race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

352 pages • hardcover • 2010

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton

Night Wherever We Go

Tracey Rose Peyton

295 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction historical emotional medium-paced
No Study Without Struggle: Confronting the Legacy of Settler Colonialism in Higher Education by Leigh Patel

No Study Without Struggle: Confronting the Legacy of Settler Colonialism in Higher Education

Leigh Patel

208 pages • hardcover

nonfiction education philosophy sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed

On Juneteenth

Annette Gordon-Reed

128 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction biography history race challenging informative reflective medium-paced