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A Captive Audience : Voices of Japanese American Youth in World War II Arkansas

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The Worst Thing We've Ever Done : One Juror's Reckoning with Racial Injustice

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Son of Two Bloods

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On the Front Line with the Women Who Fight Back

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Black Man White House : The Struggle is Real

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Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood : The Lauryn Hill Reader

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Immortal Valor : The Black Medal of Honor Winners of World War II

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