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African American Environmental Thought
Foundations
Kimberly K. Smith
In this first single-authored book to link African American and environmental studies, Smith uncovers a rich tradition stretching from the abolition movement through the Harlem Renaissance, demonstrating that black Americans have been far from indifferent to environmental concerns.
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Algorithms of Oppression
How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Safiya Umoja Noble
In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities. Data discrimination is a real social problem; Noble argues that the combination of private interests in promoting certain sites, along with the monopoly status of a relatively small number of Internet search engines, leads to a biased set of search algorithms that privilege whiteness and discriminate against people of color, specifically women of color.
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Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood
African American Children in the Antebellum North
Crystal Lynn Webster
Drawing evidence from the urban centers of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, Crystal Webster’s innovative research yields a powerful new history of African American childhood before the Civil War.
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A Black Gaze
Artists Changing How We See
Tina Campt
Examining the work of contemporary Black artists who are dismantling the white gaze and demanding that we see–and see Blackness in particular–anew.
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Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon
A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today.
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The Body Keeps the Score
Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, MD
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In “The Body Keeps the Score,” he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.
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Dark Designs and Visual Culture
Michele Wallace
This is a collection of writings from the 90s by Michele Wallace, the popular Black feminist scholar and journalist on film, art and politics.