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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
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