FROM THE PAGE: Read an excerpt from Michael Luo’s Strangers in the Land

Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction From New Yorker writer Michael Luo comes a masterful narrative history of the Chinese in America that traces the sorrowful theme of exclusion and documents their more than century-long struggle to belong.   Chapter 1 Gold Mountain Huie Kin grew up in Wing Ning, a tiny village

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FROM THE PAGE: Read an excerpt from Noliwe Rooks’s Integrated

A powerful, incisive reckoning with the impacts of school desegregation that traces four generations of the author’s family to show how the implementation of integration decimated Black school systems and did much of the Black community a disservice.   Chapter 1: “It Is Through Our Children We Will Be Free.” In March 2021, less than

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FROM THE PAGE: Read an excerpt from Ibram X. Kendi’s Chain of Ideas

The acclaimed author of How to Be an Antiracist and the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning charts how “great replacement theory” has become a dominant political idea of our time and ushered in an antidemocratic age.   Chapter 1 Collaborators It is 2017. A Sunday evening. More than ten million viewers are watching the oldest newsmagazine

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