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
My Bondage and My Freedom
History
Biography
Classics
Black Fatigue
How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
Undoing Border Imperialism
Politics
Race
Activism
How to Argue With a Racist
What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
Science
Race
Politics
Small Great Things
Book Club
Contemporary
Adult
Healing Resistance
A Radically Different Response to Harm
Social Justice
Activism
Politics
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
You Are Your Best Thing
Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
Race
Essays
Psychology
The Mis-Education of the Negro
History
Education
Race
Between Barack and a Hard Place
Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama
Race
Politics
Social Justice
Harlem Rhapsody
Historical Fiction
Historical
African American
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
Writing My Wrongs
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
The Myth of the Twentieth Century
History
Philosophy
Politics
A More Beautiful and Terrible History
The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
History
Race
Politics
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
Nobody Knows My Name
Essays
Race
Classics
Why We Can't Wait
History
Politics
Race
Race Marxism
The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis
Politics
Philosophy
Cult Classics
White Tears/Brown Scars
How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
Feminism
Race
Social Justice
Our Time Is Now
Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
Politics
Social Justice
History
How to Be Black
Humor
Memoir
Race
Against White Feminism
Notes on Disruption
Feminism
Race
Politics
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
How White People Profit from Identity Politics
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Memoir
Biography
African American
Broken Circle
The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools
Indigenous
Memoir
History
The Myth of Race
The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
History
Race
Science
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Politics
Feminism
Race
Freedom Farmers
Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
History
Food
Race
The Fire Next Time
Classics
Essays
Race
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Race
Politics
History
If Beale Street Could Talk
Classics
Romance
Historical Fiction
Master Slave Husband Wife
An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
History
Biography
Book Club
Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth
12 Questions Christians Should Ask About Social Justice
Christian
Christian Living
Christianity
The Day God Saw Me as Black
Race
Religion
Christianity
The Great Escape
A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America
History
Politics
Race
White Feminism
From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
Feminism
History
Race
Punishment Without Crime
How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
Law
Politics
Social Justice
I'm Still Here
Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Memoir
Race
Social Justice
Discrimination and Disparities
Economics
Politics
History
Ain't No Makin' It
Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
Sociology
Education
School
How the Other Half Banks
Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
Economics
History
Politics
The Unprotected Class
How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart
Politics
History
Race
How to Be Less Stupid About Race
On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
Race
Anti Racist
Social Justice
Black Folk
The Roots of the Black Working Class
History
Race
Politics
The Color of Money
Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
History
Race
Economics
