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The Braver Angels Library is curated and maintained by members Bridget Kraft, Jennifer Livingston, and Bill Roos.
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Just Us: An American Conversation

Claudia Rankine | 2020

Ghettoside

Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

Jill Leovy | 2015

Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation

Candace Owens | 2020

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

Michelle Alexander | 2012

Discrimination and Disparities

Thomas Sowell | 2018

A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America

Shelby Steele | 1999

Black Rednecks & White Liberals

Thomas Sowell | 2009

Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make it Harder for Blacks to Succeed

Jason L. Riley | 2016

Stamped From the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi | 2016

Performing Whiteness: Naturalization Litigation and the Construction of Racial Identity in America

John Tehranien | 2000

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou | 1969

The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley, and the Debate Over Race in America

Nicholas Buccola | 2019

Locking Up Our Own: Crime & Punishment in Black America

James Forman Jr | 2017

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson | 2010

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates | 2015

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