Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription. If you want to see what it looks like when someone really owns their white privilege, look no further than Tim Wise (but actually, start here and then keep looking further). Available for pre-order. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is limited to European countries. Before he wrote How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi turned heads in the literary world—and won a National Book Award—with Stamped From the Beginning, where he challenges the idea that we could possibly live in a post-racial society. Why do white people shut down when race is on the table? Doubters claimed Amazon.com ultimately would lose in the marketplace to established bookselling chains, such as Borders and Barnes & Noble, once they had launched competing e-commerce sites. How do you tell your roommate her jokes are racist? Educate yourself about white privilege and racial injustice in America with these bestselling reads. In this #1 New York Times bestseller, which has since been adapted into a popular Netflix documentary, readers will see through deeply personal accounts how she became one of the most admired women in the world. Amazon Prime members can score free reads through the Prime Reading program, which gives subscribers access to a library of 2,000+ books. S3 and EC2 quickly succeeded and helped popularize the idea that companies and individuals do not need to own computing resources; they can rent them as needed over the Internet, or “in the cloud.” For example, in 2007, soon after launch, the S3 service contained more than 10 billion objects, or files; five years later, it held more than 905 billion. By emphasizing how racial bias is subtly and overtly embedded in our culture, Kendi proves that racism is alive and well in the 21st century. He was both direct and beautiful all at once. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. Order the Prevention Smoothies & Juices Book! Prevention participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. Feb. 1, 2019, 8:11 PM UTC / Updated Feb. 6, 2020, 4:20 PM UTC Written by Alex Haley, who dedicated his career to documenting the African American struggle, The Autobiography of Malcolm X "stands as the definitive statement of a movement and a man whose work was never completed but whose message is timeless.". Ta-Nehisi Coates says it's: "the finest essay I’ve ever read. Celebrate Black History Month reading these NAACP-nominated books featuring books written by black authors, black history books, and books for black women. Her goal is for all of us to practice what we preach. In fact, Amazon.com did grow fast, reaching 180,000 customer accounts by December 1996, after its first full year in operation, and less than a year later, in October 1997, it had 1,000,000 customer accounts. This item will be released on 17 November 2020. It went viral, motivating nearly 100,000 people to download Saad's Me and White Supremacy workbook. He argued that Amazon.com was a technology company whose business was simplifying online transactions for consumers. Amazon.com was not the first company to do so; Computer Literacy, a Silicon Valley bookstore, began selling books from its inventory to its technically astute customers in 1991. Get kids back-to-school ready with Expedition: Learn! In 2007 Amazon.com began to sell its own Kindle e-readers, which helped energize the e-book market. She uses superstars like Beyonce and Michelle Obama as examples, and MSNBC's Joy Reid calls it "a dissertation on black women’s pain and possibility.". In a revolutionary work that Toni Morrison called "required reading," Ta-Nehisi Coastes addresses two essential questions: What is it like to inhabit a Black body and find a way to live within it? Its publishing of customer reviews of products fostered a “community of consumers” who helped each other find everything from the right book to the best blender. However, within weeks, Amazon.com capitulated and allowed Macmillan and other publishers to set prices of e-books. Its revenues jumped from $15.7 million in 1996 to $148 million in 1997, followed by $610 million in 1998. And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? In 2006 the company expanded its AWS portfolio with its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which rents out computer processing power in small or large increments. And thus began her journey through a racialized world. In 2011 its e-book ambitions led to the launch of Amazon Publishing with the intent to develop and publish its own titles. Think of … Thanks to the powerful voices of legendary writers like James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, and relatively new authors such as Ta-Nehisi Coates and Layla F. Saad, you can become a better ally in the pursuit of equality among all races. Other outlets have called it "masterful" and "essential.". ... Black History Month. Amazon.com is a vast Internet-based enterprise that sells books, music, movies, housewares, electronics, toys, and many other goods, either directly or as the middleman between other retailers and Amazon.com’s millions of customers. Amazon.com's home page as it appeared in 1995. Online shopping for Books from a great selection of Europe, Americas, Social & Cultural, World History, Military History, Asia & more at everyday low prices. In addition to the cash, the company was able to use its high-flying stock to fund its aggressive growth and acquisition strategy. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, The Autobiography of Malcolm X As Told to Alex Haley, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi, So You Want to Talk About Race By Ijeoma Oluo, Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander, Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son. In this bestseller, National Book Award-winner Ibram X. Kendi mixes history, science, and law with his own experience learning what antiracism really means. In 2000 the company started a service that lets small companies and individuals sell their products through Amazon.com, and by 2006 it had started its Fulfillment by Amazon service that managed the inventory of such business. Du Bois, Kendi explains how racism was created to rationalize discriminatory polices. You'll walk away with a better understanding of how non-BIPOCs can aid in the essential work of racial equality. It's hard to talk to children about racial discrimination. That's not the way it's supposed to work! Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. If you're ready to let down your walls and enter into constructive dialogues around race, this starting point will set you on the path toward true personal growth. The lack of company profits until the final quarter of 2001 seemed to justify its critics. To sustain that growth, Amazon.com needed more than private investors to underwrite the expansion. So keep in mind, these choices are a mixture of some classics and some new takes on Black history and the list is not meant to be definitive. In this New York Times bestseller, Robin DiAngelo artfully explains why racism isn't just limited to, in the words of Claudia Rankine, "bad people." The company wanted to sell new e-books for a fixed price, well below what new printed books sold for, prompting many complaints from the publishing industry. A bestseller when it was published in 1963 and a classic today, The Fire Next Time is essentially two letters written on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. It also let individuals publish their own e-books. As noted above, Bezos claimed that Amazon.com was not a retailer but a technology company. Its personalization tools recommended other products to buy on the basis of both a customer’s purchasing history and data from buyers of the same items. When Bezos founded Amazon.com, the strategy was to not carry any inventory. While many book publishers continue to derive significant revenue through sales at Amazon.com, the company is no longer considered by publishers merely as another bookseller. The publisher calls Morrison's protagonist, Frank Money, a modern Odysseus—as he escapes his small town by joining the army, only to return to the South in search of his sister, encountering plenty of pitfalls along the way. As the National Book Review says, "Oluo gives us—both white people and people of color—that language to engage in clear, constructive, and confident dialogue with each other about how to deal with racial prejudices and biases.". Whether you're a parent, teacher, church leader, or community group organizer, this handbook "offers age-appropriate insights for teaching children how to address racism when they encounter it and tackles tough questions about how to help white kids be mindful of racial relations while understanding their own identity and the role they can play for justice. AWS is even used by Amazon.com’s rivals, such as Netflix, which uses both S3 and EC2 for its competing video streaming service. In Toni Morrison's first novel, the Nobel Prize winner writes powerfully about a young Black girl who prays every day for beauty, wanting nothing more than to wake up with blonde hair and blue eyes. Named one of the most influential books of the decade by CNN, it's a powerful account of the disturbing bias that exists within the criminal justice system. Bill Gates even named it as one of eight "amazing" books in 2017. On the basis of research he had conducted, Bezos concluded that books would be the most logical product initially to sell online. Amazon shipped in excess of 5 billion items with Prime in 2017. If you want to dive into a specific issue within the wide spectrum of racial injustice in America, The Color of Law brims with awards as "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation." It's a "powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity" that will break your heart and open your mind. In 1994 Jeff Bezos, a former Wall Street hedge fund executive, incorporated Amazon.com, choosing the name primarily because it began with the first letter of the alphabet and because of its association with the vast South American river.