Author and activist Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism is currently sold out, after topping the Amazon Best Sellers list over the weekend.

--Publishers Weekly "[Written] with rare clarity, depth, and candor." She is a former Ford Foundation Senior Fellow and Soros Justice Fellow, has clerked for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, and has run the ACLU of Northern California's Racial Justice Project. The Day You Begin, a hardcover children’s book about finding commonalities with friends and strangers, is also on Amazon’s Best Sellers list.

--Sojourners "Undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S."--Birmingham News "During the past decade, no single book was more directly responsible for reshaping how the American public understands race and mass incarceration than Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow."

Originally released in 2018, the book — with a forward by Michael Eric Dyson — gained traction over the past week after appearing in a number of social media posts and resource guides suggesting reading material related to the current social climate.

Elsewhere on the list, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness returns to the best sellers charts ten years after it was first published. Purchase The New Jim Crow from: Amazon.com or . . Kobo . --The Chronicle of Higher Education. Now, the book that inspired the film is back on the best sellers list (it’s currently #5 on Amazon and #7 on the New York Times list as of this writing). --Counterpunch "A call to action for everyone concerned with racial justice and an important tool for anyone concerned with understanding and dismantling this oppressive system."

© 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Barnes and Noble or . Sesame Street’s We’re Different, We’re the Same originally came out in 1992, but the illustrated book about race relations is currently the best-selling children’s release on Amazon. Please try again. She lives in Columbus, Ohio.

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In addition to being on the Amazon Best Sellers list, the book has spent a combined 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list as well. Google Books . It’s written by National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson with illustrations by two-time Pura Belpré Illustrator Award winner Rafael López. . After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Microsoft may earn an Affiliate Commission if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness.

It appears on this week’s New York Times Best Sellers list as well.

And then there’s Ta-Nehisi Coates’ landmark book, Between the World and Me, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist when it came out in 2015, and is currently one of the top ten books on Amazon’s Best Sellers list. The book’s themes continue to resonant today, exploring America’s fraught history with race, and what it needs to do to move forward with compassion and reconciliation. Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. The New Jim Crow is that rare first book that has received rave reviews and won many awards and prizes; it and Alexander have been featured in countless national radio and television media outlets. Parents seem to be purchasing books to help their kids understand the current tensions in the country as well. Parents seem to be purchasing books to help their kids understand the current tensions in the country as well. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. Sesame Street’s We’re Different, We’re the Same originally came out in 1992, but the illustrated book about race relations is currently the best-selling children’s release on Amazon. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Bookshop.org [Book] Apple Books .

The Jamie Foxx and Michael B. Jordan film, Just Mercy, earned raves when it came out in theaters last year. Sign up for Rolling Stone’s Newsletter. Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. You can see Audible’s full selection (and sign up for a 30-day free trial) here. Please try again. The New Jim Crow (10th Anniversary Edition): Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. The book’s themes continue to resonant today, exploring America’s fraught history with race, and what it needs to do to move forward with compassion and reconciliation.

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Show full articles without "Continue Reading" button for {0} hours. The recent unrest and protests following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last week has led to a surge of interest in books about race relations and the black experience in America, with many top titles selling out. Michelle Alexander’s book about the disproportionate incarceration of African-Americans and the need for criminal justice reform has received multiple accolades, and has even been cited in judicial decisions. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. "Undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S."--Birmingham News "During the past decade, no single book was more directly responsible for reshaping how the American public understands race and mass incarceration than Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow."

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a book by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator and legal scholar. . Powell’s Books .

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