Race
Books in this genre confront the complex realities of racial identity, justice, and power in society through personal stories, scholarly analysis, and cultural commentary. These vital works examine systemic racism, civil rights, mass incarceration, education reform, and the lived experiences of people of color across different times and places.
Race Book Summaries
The Black Kids
Young Adult
Historical Fiction
Contemporary
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Classics
African American
Race
The Doctor and the Saint
The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate
India
History
Politics
The 1619 Project
A New Origin Story
History
Race
Social Justice
Original Sins
The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
History
Education
Race
DEI Deconstructed
Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right
Business
Leadership
Social Justice
The Privileged Poor
How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
Education
Sociology
Social Justice
Africa Is Not a Country
Notes on a Bright Continent
History
Africa
Politics
Sister Outsider
Essays and Speeches
Feminism
Essays
Race
Hitler's American Model
The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
History
Politics
Race
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Music
Feminism
History
Red Skin, White Masks
Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Indigenous
Politics
History
Warriors Don't Cry
A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
History
Memoir
School
Eloquent Rage
A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Feminism
Race
Essays
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Biography
History
Autobiography
America's Original Sin
Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
Race
History
Anti Racist
Learning from the Germans
Race and the Memory of Evil
History
Politics
Philosophy
Malcolm X
A Life of Reinvention
Biography
History
Race
The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
History
Race
Book Club
We Have Never Been Woke
The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
Politics
Sociology
Cultural
Ghetto
The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
History
Sociology
Race
The Color of Law
A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
History
Race
Politics
Tangled Up in Blue
Policing the American City
Politics
Memoir
Social Justice
The Grift
The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
Politics
History
Race
Stamped
Racism, Antiracism, and You
History
Race
Social Justice
The Beautiful Community
Unity, Diversity, and the Church at Its Best
Theology
Christian
Race
Rosa Parks
My Story
Biography
History
Memoir
Between the World and Me
Memoir
Race
History
The Skin We're In
A Year of Black Resistance and Power
Canada
Race
Politics
Black Magic
What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
Race
Leadership
History
Four Hundred Souls
A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
History
Race
Social Justice
Well-Read Black Girl
Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Essays
Feminism
Race
The Sum of Us
What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Race
History
Politics
The Good Immigrant
26 Writers Reflect on America
Essays
Race
Short Stories
For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts
A Love Letter to Women of Color
Feminism
Memoir
Race
Read This to Get Smarter
About Race, Class, Gender, Disability, and More
Social Justice
Feminism
Race
"They Take Our Jobs!"
And 20 Other Myths about Immigration
Politics
History
Economics
Thick
And Other Essays
Essays
Feminism
Race
White Women
Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better
Race
Social Justice
Feminism
Everyone Is African
How Science Explodes the Myth of Race
Science
Race
History
We Are Not Yet Equal
Understanding Our Racial Divide
History
Race
Social Justice
Take My Hand
Historical Fiction
Book Club
Historical
Woke Racism
How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Politics
Race
Sociology
Bad Mexicans
Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
History
Politics
Race
My Broken Language
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Caste
The Origins of Our Discontents
History
Race
Social Justice
The Undocumented Americans
Memoir
Politics
Social Justice
Civil Rights
Rhetoric or Reality?
Politics
History
Economics
Docile
Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl
Memoir
Asian Literature
Mental Health
My Bondage and My Freedom
History
Biography
Classics
