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Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. We Should All Be Feminists: A Guided Journal. Knopf. Mar. 2022. 240p. ISBN 9780525658894. $20. SOCIAL SCIENCE

Arce, Julissa. You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation. Flatiron: Macmillan. Mar. 2022. 208p. ISBN 9781250787019. $27.99. SOCIAL SCIENCE

Freedom Writers & Erin Gruwell. Dear Freedom Writer: Stories of Hardship and Hope from the Next Generation. Crown. Mar. 2022. 400p. ISBN 9780593239865. pap. $18. Downloadable. EDUCATION

Henry, Andre. All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope—and Hard Pills To Swallow—About Making Black Lives Matter. Convergent: Crown. Mar. 2022. 272p. ISBN 9780593239889. $26. lrg. prnt. Downloadable. SOCIAL SCIENCE

Kendi, Ibram X. The Antiracist Deck: 100 Meaningful Conversations on Power, Equity, and Justice. One World: Ballantine. Mar. 2022. 100 Cards. ISBN 9780593234846. $22. POLITICAL SCIENCE

Pitkin, Daisy. On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union. Algonquin. Mar. 2022. 288p. ISBN 9781643750712. $26.95. LABOR RELATIONS/MEMOIR

Sommer, William. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Reshaped America. Harper. Mar. 2022. 320p. ISBN 9780063114487. $28.99. POLITICAL SCIENCE

Timiraos, Nick. Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled the White House and Saved the Economy. Little, Brown. Mar. 2022. 356p. ISBN 9780316272810. $30. SOCIAL SCIENCE

Williamson, Elizabeth. Sandy Hook: How a Shooting at School Became a Battle for Truth. Dutton. Mar. 2022. 352p. ISBN 9781524746575. $28. SOCIAL SCIENCE

With We Should All Be Feminists, award-winning, multi-million-copy best-selling MacArthur author Adichie offers an illustrated journal that guides readers on their own feminist journeys. Arce, who worked hard to suppress her accent after immigrating to the United States from Mexico only to be told You Sound Like a White Girl, now rejects assimilation as an illusory and ultimately racist goal meant to keep her from belonging and instead argues for honoring one’s culture; currently, she’s collaborating with America Ferrera to develop Ferrera’s My (Underground) American Dream for television (75,000-copy first printing). Following up 1999’s No. 1 New York Times best-selling The Freedom Writers Diary¸ which inspired a film starring Hilary Swank and an Emmy award–winning documentary, Dear Freedom Writer is a compilation by contemporary Freedom Writers and teacher Gruwell of 50 more stories representing a new generation of high school students. As musician/activist Henry looks back on All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep—they thought he wasn’t sufficiently polite when discussing racism or doubted it even existed—he argues that social justice will be achieved not through civil conversation or diversity hires but more direct ways of disrupting racial inequality and violence. With The Antiracist Deck, No. 1 New York Times best-selling antiracism champion Kendi presents not a book but a pack of 100 cards, each with a conversation starter—When did you first become aware of racism? When did you first become aware of your race? What does “resistance” mean to you? —meant to get people talking. In On the Line, Pitkin recalls working as a newly hired organizer for UNITE, an international garment workers union, to unionize Arizona’s industrial laundry factories with the help of a second-shift immigrant factory worker pseudonymously named Alma Gomez-Garcia. A political reporter for the Daily Beast who has spent the last several years tracking QAnon, Sommer explains what it is, why it has gained traction, what dangers it poses, and how to shake adherents loose from its dogma in Trust the Plan (100,000-copy first printing). Chief economics correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Timiraos argues in Trillion Dollar Triage that the pandemic did not result in economic collapse owing to the efforts of Jerome H. Powell, chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (60,000-copy first printing). New York Times reporter Williamson’s Sandy Hook reveals the ongoing tragedy of the killing of 26 people—including 20 children—at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012, with the parents of young victims harassed online, stalked, and even shot at and the very truth of the massacre denied by a group of conspiracy theorists whom she sees as profit motivated.

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