Books we may read

1. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Edward E. Baptist
2. The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation by Greg LeRoy 
3. Flawed System/Flawed Self: Job Searching and Unemployment Experiences by Ofer Sharone
4. The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism: How Market Tyranny Stifles the Economy by Stunting Workers by Michael Perelman
5. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe
6. Against Meritocracy    by Jo Littler
7. Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
8. The End of Policing    by Alex Vitale
9. Locking Up Our Own   by James Forman, Jr.
10. Caste    by Isabel Wilkerson
11. Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It by Nancy Fraser
    
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12. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism   By Benedict Anderson
13. Freedom Papers   by Jean M. Hébrard and Rebecca J. Scott
14. Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery  by Rebecca Scott