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"Have you ever read a book and felt so gutted by it that you knew you'd never recover? That it made you sit differently in your own skin? A book that complicated everything you believed in and changed the way you read the world around you forever? This is what Sarah Chihaya calls a "Life Ruiner". Sarah's Life Ruiner was The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. When she read it in her high school English class, she could no longer pretend not to notice how...
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"A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue and its ... role in Black history and culture"--
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"A timely, vulnerable, and cutting-edge exploration of the pressures and pitfalls of writing while Black in America in this urgently needed addition to the national conversation of race, money, and art"--
Book cover for "The science of racism"
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"Studies and surveys show, time and again, that about 50 percent of people believe that racism is no longer an issue today. The other half would disagree--vehemently. And much of the writing on the subject of race and racism is equally divisive, in large part because so much of it is based on opinion and personal experience. It's not grounded in empiricism. It's not science. ... Social psychologist Keon West corrects that idea, moving this urgent...