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Eve L. Ewing The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation’s Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not widely... AntiracismBooks
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AFRICOBRA
Messages to the People
Various Artists A psychedelic cornucopia on the revolutionary art collective that defined a new Black aesthetic in late 1960s Chicago AFRICOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists)... ArtBooks
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All Good in the Hood
Dwayne Reed This bounce-to-the-beat picture book by America’s favorite rapping teacher from Chicago is a tribute to the sights and sounds of a city neighborhood and... BooksChildren's
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Choosing Family
A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance
Francesca T. Royster A brilliant literary memoir of chosen family and chosen heritage, told against the backdrop of Chicago’s North and South Sides As a multiracial household in... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Do You Remember House?
Chicago's Queer of Color Undergrounds
Micah Salkind Today, no matter where you are in the world, you can turn on a radio and hear the echoes and influences of Chicago house music. Do... BooksLGBTQIA+
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Everywhere You Don't Belong
Gabriel Bump “A comically dark coming-of-age story about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, but it’s also social commentary at its finest, woven seamlessly into... AntiracismBooks
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Feels Right
Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago
Kemi Adeyemi In Feels Right Kemi Adeyemi presents an ethnography of how black queer women in Chicago use dance to assert their physical and affective rights to the city.... BooksLGBTQIA+
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Ghosts in the Schoolyard
Eve L. Ewing “Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.” That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and... BooksHistory
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I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times
Taylor Byas Inspired by The Wiz, this debut, full-length poetry collection celebrates South Side Chicago and a Black woman's quest for self-discovery--one that pulls her away from the... BooksPoetry
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Last Summer on State Street
Toya Wolfe Even when we lose it all, we find the strength to rebuild. Felicia "Fe Fe" Stevens is living with her vigilantly loving mother and older... BooksFiction
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My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
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aja monet My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter is poet aja monet’s ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters—the tiny gods who fight to change the world. Textured with... AntiracismBooks
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Once I Was You
Maria Hinojosa “Anyone striving to understand and improve this country should read her story.” — Gloria Steinem, author of My Life on the RoadThe Emmy Award–winning journalist and anchor... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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The Assassination of Fred Hampton
How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther (Revised)
Jeffrey Haas On December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton’s fiancée. She described how the police pulled her... AntiracismBooks
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The Emergency
A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER
Thomas Fisher The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room through the eyes of one doctor trying to steer his patients... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Three Girls from Bronzeville
A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
Dawn Turner They were three Black girls. Dawn, tall and studious; her sister, Kim, younger by three years and headstrong as they come; and her best friend,... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Wild Women and the Blues
A Fascinating and Innovative Novel of Historical Fiction
Denny S. Bryce In a stirring and impeccably researched novel of Jazz-age Chicago in all its vibrant life, two stories intertwine nearly a hundred years apart, as a... BooksFiction
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