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PASSING by Nella Larsen (1929) via Oshun Publishing imbibed at Yanaka Coffee
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BEGIN AGAIN: JAMES BALDWIN'S AMERICA & ITS URGENT LESSONS FOR TODAY by Eddie S Glaude Jr via Vintage Books imbibed at Roar Coffee

The photo is of seating outside a cafe against a large window. At the top you can see the ice cream area and shelving of coffee bean bags above paper cups & other cafe produced detritus. There is so much white. Outside on a tiny round table is a white coffee cup with a white lid. The white paperback book mentioned in the post has BEGIN AGAIN & the author's name in red. There is a black& white photo of the Black writer James Baldwin looking at the camera
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    GOOD WHITE QUEERS? RACISM & WHITENESS IN QUEER U.S. COMICS by Kai Linke via @columbiaup brewed with Arise Coffee 💙📚

    The image is of the cover of the book mentioned in the post. It is black with GOOD WHITE QUEERS? alternating in pink & white. Below the title & subtitle is an illustration of a clear pill bottle full of rainbow colored pills. On the bottle is a white lable it says "Magical anti-racism PILLS" There is more text but the image is too blurry to read.
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    NONE OF THIS IS SERIOUS by Catherine Prasifka via Canongate imbibed Tully's Coffee

    The photo is of a round reddish brown table. On the table is the paperback book mentioned in the toot. It has a purple frame of a shattered illustration of a faceless woman with black hair and a red top, the cracks being in purple too. To the right is a paper latte cup with strawberry chocolate flakes on top of whipped cream. The white paper cup says BE HAPPY above a circular illustration of TOM AND JERRY characters, a light grey dog, dark grey cat, & red mouse. Behind is a pink paper bag with the same illustration. The characters are looking at the word COFFEE below them. The bag has pink flowers all over it and the orange/green vertical striped TULLY'S logo is in the left hand corner. You can see the back of a display case beyond the table and blurry patrons sitting to the left.
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    YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD WOMAN DOWN by Alice Walker via The Women's Fiction Press (1985) imbibed at Costa Coffee 💙📚

    The photo is of a wooden counter on which is the paperback book which has a painting of a short haired Black woman in a car looking forward with her right hand on a huge white steering wheel. She is wearing red spaghetti strapped dress. Behind her is the car's leopard print seat and blue behind that. To the left is a brown tray on which is a white coffee cup with a white plastic lid. It is brown sleeve with 3 big red beans. In front of it is a green Cookie with white chocolate chunks. It is on a red patterned paper sheet that says COSTA in round red circles
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    SO YOU'VE BEEN PUBLICLY SHAMED by @jonronson via Picador imbibed at Coffee Base Meguro

    The photo is outside the coffee shop. The metal table is round. The paperback book is on it with an illustration of the eyes & forehead of the author, a white man with short hair and aquamarine glasses. Above his head are a round of hands pointing at him. To the right is a black mug of black coffee. In the distance are 2 Japanese people walking further by. There is a black sandwich board between the people and the table. The sidewalk is red brick
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    SOCIAL WARMING: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA POLARISES US ALL by Charles Arthur via OneWorld Publications imbibed at Cafe & Bar BASE @bookstodon

    Photo of a wooden bench and table outside the cafe. The table's wood is darker than the light wooden bench On the table is the paperback book which is yellow blending to orange blending to pink top to bottom. In the middle is black cracked screen smartphone with the title. To the left is a clear brown coffee cup of black coffee. Behind it is a silver cylinder cup. To the mug's left is a tiny round silver plate with a red strawberry in it. In the distance on the brick alley is a bicycle pedaling to the left. The rider's torso is cut off.
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    THE SKIN WE'RE IN: A YEAR OF BLACK RESISTANCE & POWER by @desmondcole via @doubledaybooks Canada imbibed at Cafe & Bar BASE @bookstodon

    Photo is of a wooden counter. The hardcover book of bright colors & black silhouettes is prominently in front. Above to left is a brown translucent plastic mug of black coffee on a blue octagonal coaster. To the right is a brown scone with white icing on a white napkin on a round plate. Behind the counter are several clear containers of coffee beans.
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    HEADS OF THE COLORED PEOPLE by Nafisa Thompson-Spires via Vintage Books imbibed at Coffee Costa @bookstodon

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    PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL: THE HIDDEN FORCES THAT SHAPE OUR DECISIONS by Dan Ariely via Harper imbibed at Greenberry Coffee Company
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    ANTI-RACISM INC: WHY THE WAY WE TALK ABOUT RACIAL JUSTICE MATTERS Edited by Felice Blake, Paula Iaonide, & Alison Reed via Punctum Books brewed with Coffee Boy coffee
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    THE COLOR OF WATER: A BLACK MAN'S TRIBUTE TO HIS WHITE MOTHER by James McBride via Riverhead Books imbibed at Yanaka Coffee -Machida
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    THE WAR ON CRITICAL RACE THEORY by David Theo Goldberg via @politybooks imbibed at Social Good Roasters

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    The photo is of a square silver metal table of ant outside seating area. The orange paperback book mentioned in the skeet is on the table. The title is in white bold letters with a black line through CRITICAL RACE THEORY. The author's name is below the title in smaller bold black letters. To the right is a white paper lid & cup of coffee with a brown sleeve with little designs on it of birds & other shapes. In the distance you can see a black computer bag on a bench and 2 other Japanese patrons in (left to right) a puffy black winter jacket and puffy grey winter jacket.
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    MY STORY: FROM BUSH KID TO AFL LEGEND by Nicky Winmar w/ Matthew Hardy via Allen & Unwin imbibed at Kamome Coffee
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    The photo is of the corner of a square brown table. The paperback book featuring the iconic photo of Aboriginal Australian Rules Footballer Nicky Winmar lifting up his St Kilda Saints jersey pointing proudly at his skin in a gesture of defiance at racial abuse in 1993. To the left is a white coffee mug of black coffee. 2 pairs of legs can be seen outside on the sidewalk through the window
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    EDDIE BETTS: THE BOY FROM BOOMERANG CRESCENT by Eddie Betts via Simon & Schuster imbibed at Saza Coffee
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    The photo is of a white counter with the hardcover book featuring a photo of Aboriginal footballer Eddie Betts smiling. His black hair is short & he has a fuller moustache & a sparse beard To the right is an ornate blue & grey flowerly coffee cup & saucer of black coffee. A silver spoon is perpendicular in front. In the distance, 3 siphon coffee apparatuses can be seen, the middle bulb of water being bunsen burnered, its upper urn is full of coffee grounds
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    UNCOMMON TYPE: SOME STORIES by Tom Hanks via @vintagebooks brewed with Overview Coffee
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    The photo is of a coach divider tray. The coach is grey. The divider is briwn plastic. Tye paperback book is aquamarine with 3 big yellow circles surrounded by silver to represent old style typewriter keys. The top one says TOM HANKS, the middle one the book title mentioned in the skeet, & the partially cut off bottom with a large # and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. To the left is an orange mug of black coffee. The tan floor of a living room can be seen in the distance
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    YOU GOTTA HAVE WA by Robert Whiting via Vintage Books imbibed at Saito's Coffee
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    Photo is of a coffee house table. In front is a white mug of black coffee with the red medieval timey logo. Behind it to the left is a Cleveland Guardians dark blue baseball cap from the 2023 All Star Game logo on the left and a bid red C with an asterisk on the front & a sticker on the bill. To the right is the paperback book with has a baseball with the title on the upper left and Japanese woodblock type images of Japanese men, one in a Yomiuri Giants hat & white jersey & the other has a Hanshin Tigers cap. An old tattered leather chair is in the distance. We can see a man's back & red tennis shoes can be see in the seat in front
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    INVISIBILITY BY DESIGN: WOMEN & LABOR IN JAPAN'S DIGITAL ECONOMY by Gabriella Lukács via @dukepress imbibed at Black Sloth Coffee
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    The photo is of a coffee house counter looking out onto a rainy street. The white paperback book is on the brown wooden counter. It features a photo of a young long blue, pink, & black haired Japanese woman in a black tank top & black jeans with a camera covering her nose & mouth. The brown outside/white inside cup of black coffee has a profile of a black and white sloth logo. Outside you can see an intersection. A old blurry Japanese man is heading left on a scooter where another old blurry Japanese man wearing a mask is on a bicycle on the distant sidewalk heading right
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    HOW TO PLAY VIDEO GAMES Edited by Matthew Thomas Payne & Nina B Hunteman via @nyupress brewed with Yanaka Coffee Sakura Blend @bookstodon

    The photo is of a book & coffee mug are on a brown plastic couch divider. The large paperback book is blue grid surrounding a cut out of a series of illustrated rooms where people are playing different games in different ways. Clockwise - A black man is playing a Nintendo Switch-like game in the kitchen; A white man plays a Dance Dance Revolution like game in the living room while a ponytailed white woman plays a handheld game on a couch; A Black man plats pinball in a basement with a foosball table in the room as well; a white man lies on a bed with Birkenstocks on playing MarioCart in a bedroom; a white woman has a VR headset on standing in a tiny room; a white man is playing a game on a laptop in a nook; & a white man is in another living room in a loveseat plays another handheld. To the right of the book is a orange mug of black coffee.
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    WHEELS OUT OF GEAR: 2 TONE, THE SPECIALS, & A WORLD IN FLAME by Dave Thompson via Helter Skelter Publishing imbibed at Vault Coffee @bookstodon

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    WHITE RAGE: THE UNSPOKEN TRUTH OF OUR RACIAL DIVIDE by Carol Anderson, PhD via Bloomsbury imbibed at Ueshima Coffee
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    The photo is of a square brown wooden table inside the coffee house. The hardcover black book with a white scroll featuring the WHITE RAGE title in black lettering. To the left is a white mug of black coffee. A grey sectional chair can be seen across the table. Out the window can be seen an older short grey haired white man in a blue vest & white dress shirt sitting at a silver metal table outside in the day time
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    MAKING SENSE OF THE ALT-RIGHT by George Hawley via Columbia University Press imbibed at Lush Coffee
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    Photo of brown wooden table with the white hardcover book where all the text is black with the exception bring ALT-RIGHT in red To the right is a green cookie slightly inching out of a light brown paper bag. Above is a light brown mug of black coffee. The mug has a black dog icon along with the coffee house name mentioned in the skeet. The wall is grey wood. In the distance is a dark brown wicker basket
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    HOW WORDS GET GOOD: THE STORY OF MAKING A BOOK by Rebecca Lee via Profile Books imbibed at Cafe Olive
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    JOURNALISM & JIM CROW: WHITE SUPREMACY & THE BLACK STRUGGLE FOR A NEW AMERICA Edited by Kathy Roberts Forde & Sid Bedingfield via University of Illinois Press
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    THE CONQUEST OF HAPPINESS by Bertrand Russell via Routledge imbibed at Paul Bassett
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    The photo is of outside of the cafe. There's a round wooden table. On it is a blue coffee mug. To the left is the paperback book which has a red vertical half & another half an abstract painting of pink possible faces & hands & black borders. Further to the left is a white plate on which is a cheesecake with whipped cream on top. In the distance a blurry person is walking past
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    THE SCHOOL OF LIFE: AN EMOTIONAL EDUCATION by Alain de Botton via Penguin imbibed at Kitasando Kissa
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    Photo is outside of a cafe. There is a square black metal table. The turquoise paperback book with a yellow spine is on the table. To the left is a wooden rectangle tray with a small greyish green cup. Further to the left is a beaker of black coffee. A vast sidewalk and a street can be seen in the distance
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