Molly McArdle

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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation

This first study of its kind follows an enslaved person's life through the lens of their monetary value, from University of Texas at Austin history professor Berry...
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The Blood of Emmett Till

National Book Critics Circle finalist Tyson presents a new history of 14-year-old Emmett Till's 1955 lynching, drawing from sources such as the only interview given by the white woman Till was accused of whistling at and a murder trial transcript believed to be missing for 50 years...
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The Song and the Silence: A Story About Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright

Filmmaker Johnson returns to the story of her grandfather Booker Wright and his murder—the subject of her 2012 documentary, Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story...
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Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

Never-before-published short stories by writer Collins comprise this new collection...
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

A short but impassioned call to action against racism geared toward white readers in particular from Georgetown sociology professor and writer Dyson...
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He Calls Me by Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty

A Samford University historian tells the story of Caliph Washington, who was a teenager when he was wrongfully convicted of killing a policeman in 1957, and who was saved—a dozen times—from execution by electric chair...
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There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé

In this book of poems about more than Beyoncé but also crucially about Beyoncé, poet Parker considers history and the future, performance and interiority, humor and tragedy, politics and art...
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A Mind To Stay: White Plantation, Black Homeland

A counterpoint to the history of the Great Migration, focusing on a community of black Americans who remained in the South, eventually becoming the owners of the land their enslaved ancestors worked...
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Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination

Writer and historian Boyd blends memoir, history, and reportage in this consideration of the Motor City and its significance for black Americans...
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