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CELA's audiobooks and magazines are available in Direct to Player and downloadable formats. We no longer mail out CDs. Please contact us for more information.
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By Ijeoma Oluo. 2018
Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing issues such as privilege, police brutality,…
intersectionality, microaggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word. Perfectly positioned to bridge the gap between people of color and white Americans struggling with race complexities, Oluo answers the questions readers don't dare ask. 2018.By Ta-Nehisi Coates. 2015
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns…
of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Bestseller. Winner of the National Book Award. 2015.By Asha Bandele, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Angela Y Davis. 2018
A memoir by the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement explains the movement's position of love, humanity, and justice,…
challenging perspectives that have negatively labeled the movement's activists while calling for essential political changes. Bestseller. 2018.By Asha Bandele, Angela Davis, Patrisse Khan-Cullors. 2017
A memoir by the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement explains the movement's position of love, humanity, and justice,…
challenging perspectives that have negatively labeled the movement's activists while calling for essential political changes. Bestseller. 2018.By Sophie Williams. 2021
Whether you are just finding your voice, have made a start but aren't sure what to do next, or want…
a fresh viewpoint, Williams introduces and explains the language of change and shows you how to challenge the system, beginning with yourself. Williams reminds you that this is a learning process, which means facing difficult truths, becoming uncomfortable, and working through the embarrassment and discomfort. Together, anti-racist allies can use their power to truly change the world and lives.By James Baldwin. 1963
In two essays combining autobiography with political philosophy, Baldwin expresses how he feels as a black American in white America.…
Includes a section on the Black Muslim movement and a meeting with its leader, Elijah Muhammad. 1963.By Eternity Martis. 2020
A powerful, moving memoir about what it's like to be a student of colour on a predominantly white campus.A booksmart…
kid from Toronto, Eternity Martis was excited to move away to Western University for her undergraduate degree. But as one of the few Black students there, she soon discovered that the campus experiences she'd seen in movies were far more complex in reality. Over the next four years, Eternity learned more about what someone like her brought out in other people than she did about herself. She was confronted by white students in blackface at parties, dealt with being the only person of colour in class and was tokenized by her romantic partners. She heard racial slurs in bars, on the street, and during lectures. And she gathered labels she never asked for: Abuse survivor. Token. Bad feminist. But, by graduation, she found an unshakeable sense of self--and a support network of other women of colour.Using her award-winning reporting skills, Eternity connects her own experience to the systemic issues plaguing students today. It's a memoir of pain, but also resilience.NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movementin the 1960s—and still…
lights the way to understanding race in America today. • "The finest essay I&’ve ever read.&” —Ta-Nehisi CoatesAt once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document from the iconic author of If Beale Street Could Talk and Go Tell It on the Mountain. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Described by The New York Times Book Review as "sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle … all presented in searing, brilliant prose," The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of literature.