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
We Are Not Yet Equal
Understanding Our Racial Divide
History
Race
Social Justice
My Broken Language
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Docile
Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl
Memoir
Asian Literature
Mental Health
The Myth of the Twentieth Century
History
Philosophy
Politics
How to Argue With a Racist
What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
Science
Race
Politics
You Are Your Best Thing
Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
Race
Essays
Psychology
Harlem Rhapsody
Historical Fiction
Historical
African American
Nice Racism
How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
Undoing Border Imperialism
Politics
Race
Activism
Healing Resistance
A Radically Different Response to Harm
Social Justice
Activism
Politics
The Mis-Education of the Negro
History
Education
Race
So You Want to Talk About Race
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
The Trouble with Diversity
How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
Politics
Sociology
Race
Decolonial Daughter
Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son
Memoir
Race
Essays
Writing My Wrongs
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Between Barack and a Hard Place
Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama
Race
Politics
Social Justice
Race Marxism
The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis
Politics
Philosophy
Cult Classics
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Race
Politics
Feminism
Capitalist Nigger
The Road to Success: A Spider-Web Doctrine
Africa
Race
Nigeria
A More Beautiful and Terrible History
The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
History
Race
Politics
Nobody Knows My Name
Essays
Race
Classics
White Tears/Brown Scars
How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
Feminism
Race
Social Justice
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
How White People Profit from Identity Politics
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
If Beale Street Could Talk
Classics
Romance
Historical Fiction
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Politics
Feminism
Race
The Fire Next Time
Classics
Essays
Race
Against White Feminism
Notes on Disruption
Feminism
Race
Politics
The Myth of Race
The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
History
Race
Science
Why We Can't Wait
History
Politics
Race
The Day God Saw Me as Black
Race
Religion
Christianity
How to Be Black
Humor
Memoir
Race
Master Slave Husband Wife
An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
History
Biography
Book Club
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Race
Politics
History
Our Time Is Now
Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
Politics
Social Justice
History
Broken Circle
The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools
Indigenous
Memoir
History
Freedom Farmers
Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
History
Food
Race
Discrimination and Disparities
Economics
Politics
History
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Memoir
Biography
African American
The Unprotected Class
How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart
Politics
History
Race
Ain't No Makin' It
Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
Sociology
Education
School
Amity
Historical Fiction
Historical
Literary Fiction
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth
12 Questions Christians Should Ask About Social Justice
Christian
Christian Living
Christianity
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
History
Politics
Social Justice
White Feminism
From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
Feminism
History
Race
Another Country
Classics
LGBT
Queer
White Malice
The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
History
Africa
Politics
The Great Escape
A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America
History
Politics
Race
I'm Still Here
Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Memoir
Race
Social Justice
Punishment Without Crime
How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
Law
Politics
Social Justice
