Thread by @whitewhalebks

These are some of the books we’ve carried in-store that can help families initiate conversations about race and racism. All proceeds from this @Bookshop_Org list in June will go to Black Lives Matter. Happy to offer other recs too, DM us anywhere/email us.
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Continuing with a thread of some books we have stocked in our Ready-to-Ship store. We believe in reading theory, journalism, history, novels, memoirs, poetry, #ownvoices -- we believe in literature's power to expand awareness, develop conversations, and improve anti-racist work.

Jericho Brown's THE TRADITION, this year's winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry.
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Dr. François Clemmons's memoir OFFICER CLEMMONS, about his journey as a gay Black man who became an internationally renowned opera singer and who was also the first African-American actor to have a recurring role on a kids' television show.
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Our number one bestseller last year, hometown author Damon Young's WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU MAKES YOU BLACKER. Pittsburgh especially, you'd better be reading this and taking notes on how we can do better. Because we've got to start doing better, immediately.
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BURN IT DOWN! FEMINIST MANIFESTOS FOR THE REVOLUTION is general, but it's here especially for the Combahee River Collective's statement. An essential text in the history and present of intersectionality.
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Folks are recommending Ta-Nehisi Coates's nonfiction a lot, and GOOD! We're out of stock of BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME, but we do have his recent novel THE WATER DANCER, which goes back in time to enslaved people's fight for freedom in the U.S.
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Brittney Cooper's ELOQUENT RAGE. We've been reading Dr. Cooper since the early days of the Crunk Feminist Collective. Rage is often racialized, especially when it comes to Black women's anger. We're seeing that today. But rage is a superpower.
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We developed our list of kids' books for parents who aren't sure of where to start their conversations with their kids about race. Mira Jacob's graphic memoir, GOOD TALK, is about those conversations with her son when he was six.
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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's FRIDAY BLACK. It's a little like an American "Black Mirror" but focused on how Blackness itself is criminalized. One of the most brilliant short story collections we've ever read.
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Sarah Broom's THE YELLOW HOUSE, the 2019 National Book Award winner in nonfiction. A portrait of her family and their home in a suburb of New Orleans destroyed by Katrina, but also about how racism and racist policy failed the city and her family.
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Mikki Kendall's HOOD FEMINISM. Kendall is the creator of the #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen hashtag, and this is a collection of essays indicting the mainstream feminist movement for not only leaving Black women behind but purposefully oppressing them.
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To close an incomplete list, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's HOW TO BE AN ANTI-RACIST. We can't just tweet about racism and anti-Blackness. Can't just condemn it. We have to uproot it from our communities and from within ourselves. It's daily work that does not end.
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To help further those conversations, from @PrettyGoodd: prettygooddesign.org/blog/Blog%20Po…