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
Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Politics
History
Economics
Keeper of Lost Children
Historical Fiction
Historical
Race
Spectacle
The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga
History
Biography
Race
Southern Horrors and Other Writings
The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900
History
Race
Essays
Yellow Wife
Historical Fiction
Historical
Book Club
The Great Contradiction
The Tragic Side of the American Founding
History
American History
Politics
Anatomy of a Lynching
The Killing of Claude Neal
History
True Crime
Crime
Ain't I a Woman
Black Women and Feminism
Feminism
Race
History
White Lies
The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret
History
Biography
Race
Mexifornia
A State of Becoming
Politics
History
American History
At the Hands of Persons Unknown
The Lynching of Black America
History
Race
American History
A Man Called White
The Autobiography of Walter White
Biography
History
Politics
The Second
Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
History
Politics
Race
Black-Owned
The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
History
Race
Books About Books
What if I Say the Wrong Thing?
25 Habits for Culturally Effective People
Self Help
Leadership
Anti Racist
American Holocaust
The Conquest of the New World
History
Native American
Politics
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust
Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism
History
Africa
Race
Natives
Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
History
Politics
Race
An Inconvenient Minority
The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy
Politics
Education
History
The Other Trail of Tears
The Removal of the Ohio Indians
History
Native American
Native Americans
Elite Capture
How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics
Politics
Philosophy
Race
Ah, but Your Land Is Beautiful
Africa
South Africa
Classics
Medical Apartheid
The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
History
Race
Science
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
History
Politics
Sociology
Reconstruction
America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
History
American History
Civil War
The Wrath to Come
Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
History
Politics
American History
Sidewalk
Sociology
Ethnography
Anthropology
Tupac Shakur
The Authorized Biography
Biography
Music
Biography Memoir
The Wages of Whiteness
Race and the Making of the American Working Class
History
Race
Politics
Empire of Cotton
A Global History
History
Economics
World History
War Against the Weak
Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race
History
Politics
Science
Dying of Whiteness
How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Politics
Race
Social Justice
Hayek's Bastards
Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right
Politics
History
Economics
Let Them Eat Tweets
How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality
Politics
History
Economics
When Affirmative Action Was White
An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
History
Race
Politics
The Second Coming of the KKK
The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
History
Politics
American History
Aesthetics of Excess
The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment
Race
Latinx
Theory
The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health
Navigate an Unequal System, Learn Tools for Emotional Wellness, and Get the Help you Deserve
Mental Health
Psychology
Self Help
Unworthy Republic
The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
History
American History
Politics
Why We Kneel, How We Rise
Sports
History
Politics
American Slavery, American Freedom
History
American History
Race
White Identity Politics
Politics
Race
Political Science
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War
History
American History
Politics
American Crucible
Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century
History
American History
Race
The Half Has Never Been Told
Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
History
Race
Economics
White Backlash
Immigration, Race, and American Politics
Race
Politics
Political Science
Cuts Both Ways
Young Adult
Romance
Race
Abolition Of White Democracy
Politics
Race
Theory
Fragmented Democracy
Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics
Politics
Race
Health Care
Racism
A Short History
History
Race
Sociology
