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
Nice Racism
How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
Decolonial Daughter
Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son
Memoir
Race
Essays
Undoing Border Imperialism
Politics
Race
Activism
The Mis-Education of the Negro
History
Education
Race
Woke Racism
How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Politics
Race
Sociology
A More Beautiful and Terrible History
The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
History
Race
Politics
Writing My Wrongs
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Small Great Things
Book Club
Contemporary
Adult
The Trouble with Diversity
How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
Politics
Sociology
Race
So You Want to Talk About Race
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
Capitalist Nigger
The Road to Success: A Spider-Web Doctrine
Africa
Race
Nigeria
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Race
Politics
Feminism
You Are Your Best Thing
Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
Race
Essays
Psychology
Nobody Knows My Name
Essays
Race
Classics
Our Time Is Now
Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
Politics
Social Justice
History
Why We Can't Wait
History
Politics
Race
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Memoir
Biography
African American
Civil Rights
Rhetoric or Reality?
Politics
History
Economics
Take My Hand
Historical Fiction
Book Club
Historical
Race Marxism
The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis
Politics
Philosophy
Cult Classics
How to Be Black
Humor
Memoir
Race
The Undocumented Americans
Memoir
Politics
Social Justice
White Tears/Brown Scars
How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
Feminism
Race
Social Justice
Against White Feminism
Notes on Disruption
Feminism
Race
Politics
Harlem Rhapsody
Historical Fiction
Historical
African American
White Feminism
From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
Feminism
History
Race
The Fire Next Time
Classics
Essays
Race
Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth
12 Questions Christians Should Ask About Social Justice
Christian
Christian Living
Christianity
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Politics
Feminism
Race
Broken Circle
The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools
Indigenous
Memoir
History
Punishment Without Crime
How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
Law
Politics
Social Justice
Black Fatigue
How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
The Myth of Race
The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
History
Race
Science
The Myth of the Twentieth Century
History
Philosophy
Politics
The Great Escape
A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America
History
Politics
Race
Under Our Skin
Getting Real about Race–And Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations That Divide Us
Race
Christian
Social Justice
I'm Still Here
Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Memoir
Race
Social Justice
Punch Me Up to the Gods
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
Freedom Farmers
Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
History
Food
Race
Another Word for Love
A Memoir
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
Urban Apologetics
Restoring Black Dignity with the Gospel
Christian
Theology
Christianity
How to Be Less Stupid About Race
On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
Race
Anti Racist
Social Justice
Master Slave Husband Wife
An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
History
Biography
Book Club
The Day God Saw Me as Black
Race
Religion
Christianity
How the Other Half Banks
Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
Economics
History
Politics
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Race
Politics
History
Colonize This!
Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
Feminism
Race
Social Justice
Awakening Together
The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community
Buddhism
Spirituality
Race
Was the Cat in the Hat Black?
The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books
Education
Race
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