One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an empire that does not consider you fully human. This book chronicles the deep fracture that has occurred for Black, Brown, and Indigenous Americans in the idea that their countries, or the countries of their adoption, have failed to live up to the values they espouse.
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