Friday, August 14, 2015

12 Essential Books About Race in America


Off the Shelf
By Eloy Bleifuss Prado    |   Thursday, August 13, 2015
Last month’s releases of Harper Lee’s much-anticipated Go Set a Watchman and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, a powerful meditation on what it means to be black in America today, have pushed the conversation about race in America to the national foreground. 

Talking about race isn’t easy. It’s personal, it’s political, it’s visceral. That these were two of the most hotly anticipated and talked-about books of the year only underscores the power of literature to provide a window into this most difficult of subjects. Here are twelve books that have changed the way we talk about race in America.... READ MORE

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