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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 • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0brandyebookworm's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin G. Boyle

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

Kevin G. Boyle

415 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0brandyebookworm's review
nonfiction history sociology slow-paced
My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Barbara Reynolds, Coretta Scott King

My Life, My Love, My Legacy

Barbara Reynolds, Coretta Scott King

368 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0brandyebookworm's review
nonfiction biography history memoir emotional informative inspiring slow-paced
Finding Gideon by Eric Jerome Dickey

Finding Gideon

Gideon #5

Eric Jerome Dickey

378 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0brandyebookworm's review
fiction adventurous tense slow-paced
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

369 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0brandyebookworm's review
nonfiction biography history science emotional informative medium-paced
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Hate U Give

The Hate U Give #1

Angie Thomas

480 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0brandyebookworm's review
fiction contemporary young adult emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter

The Good Daughter

The Good Daughter #1

Karin Slaughter

656 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0brandyebookworm's review
fiction mystery thriller dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough

Behind Her Eyes

Sarah Pinborough

320 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0brandyebookworm's review
fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious medium-paced
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire

At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power

Danielle L. McGuire

324 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0brandyebookworm's review
nonfiction feminism history race emotional slow-paced
The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish

The Last Black Unicorn

Tiffany Haddish

288 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0brandyebookworm's review
nonfiction autobiography essays emotional funny inspiring fast-paced