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– Nonfiction –

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah

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The Great Migration North, 1910 – 1970
by Laurie Lanzen Harris

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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life
by Allyson Vanessa Hobbs

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The Strange Career of William Ellis: the Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
by Karl Jacoby

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The Promised Land
by Nicholas Lemann

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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama

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The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
by Clemantine Wamariya

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The Warmth of Other Suns
by Isabel Wilkerson

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– Fiction –

Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Queen Sugar
by Natalie Baszile

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Breath, Eyes, Memory
by Edwidge Danticat

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Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi

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Twelve Tribes of Hattie
by Ayana Mathis

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– Documentaries on Kanopy –

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
PBS

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A Thousand Midnights:  The Great Migration
Brown Planet Productions

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The City and the World - 1945-2000 : Part of the Series: American Experience: New York
PBS

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Don't Shout Too Soon (1917 - 1940); Episode 3 of The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
California Newsreel

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Goin' to Chicago:  Personal Stories of the Great African American Migration
California Newsreel

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The Garifuna Journey:  Celebrating the Resiliency of the Indigenous People of Belize
New Day Films

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