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  • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. This book is so beautifully written, it is hard to put down, and even harder to make sense of as it hits on so many social and political topics that we just cannot ignore.
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. “Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.”
  • Juneteenth: A Novel by Ralph Ellison. Juneteenth is a tour de force of untutored eloquence. Ellison sought no less than to create a Book of Blackness, a literary composition of the tradition at its most sublime and fundamental." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Time "Juneteenth...threatens to come as close as any since Huckleberry Finn to grabbing the ring of the great American Novel."
  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Written in the form of a letter to his young son, this book was UO’s common reading selection for 2016-17 and In February of 2017, Coates spoke to a packed house at Matthew Knight Arena. In this book, Coates details how one of the most powerful nations was built on the myth of racial superiority, creating long-lasting damage in the lives and perceptions of black women, men, and children in America. Told through personal narrative, Coates’ story is one of firsthand experience, retold history, and hope for a better future. He attempts to answer the question, “how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?”
  • The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Boundaries by Erin Meyer, INSEAD professor of organizational behavior. Meyer's book is grounded in today’s global business world and looks at real-life cases of international collaborations to draw out lessons for deeper understanding. The Culture Map offers strategies for “even those who are culturally informed, travel extensively, and have lived abroad” to deal “with the cross-cultural complexity that affects their team’s day-to-day effectiveness.”
  • Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson. Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer’s coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.
  • This is My America written by UO’s very own Kimberly Johnson. This novel young adult novel which touches on the very timely topic of racial injustice will be released on July 28. Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time–her dad has only 267 days left. Then the unthinkable happens. The police arrive in the night, and Tracy’s older brother, Jamal, goes from being a bright, promising track star to a “thug” on the run, accused of killing a white girl. Determined to save her brother, Tracy investigates what really happened between Jamal and Angela down at the Pike. But will Tracy and her family survive the uncovering of the skeletons of their Texas town’s racist history that still haunt the present?
  • So you want to talk about race by Seattle’s own Ijeoma Oluo. “In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide.”
  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi . “This is NOT a history book. This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are where we are. A book about race.” While written specifically for teens, it is accessible and is recommended for all audiences. “Through a gripping, fast-paced, and energizing narrative written by beloved award-winner Jason Reynolds, this book shines a light on the many insidious forms of racist ideas--and on ways readers can identify and stamp out racist thoughts in their daily lives.”
  • The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama “In July 2004, four years before his presidency, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners’ minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or what Obama called ‘the audacity of hope.”
  • The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai. “Informed by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s family history, The Mountains Sing is a fictionalized remembrance of a turbulent 20th-century Việt Nam. Told alternately through the eyes of Diệu Lan and her granddaughter Hương, we follow four generations of the Trần family as they experience the French colonial period, the Great Hunger of 1945, Land Reform and the Vietnam War (or the American War, as it’s known in Việt Nam). Quế Mai’s first novel in English is lyrical and at once heart-wrenching and hopeful. Quế Mai has described the book as her “desperate call for peace and for humans to love other human beings more.”
  • Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi. "The story begins in 1619—a year before the Mayflower—when the White Lion disgorges “some 20-and-odd Negroes” onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. It takes us to the present, when African Americans, descendants of those on the White Lion and a thousand other routes to this country, continue a journey defined by inhuman oppression, visionary struggles, stunning achievements, and millions of ordinary lives passing through extraordinary history. ”

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