Social Justice
Books in this genre shine a light on society's deepest inequalities and the brave individuals working to address them through protest, policy, and grassroots movements. These powerful works examine systemic barriers around race, class, gender and human rights while offering frameworks for creating meaningful social change and building more equitable communities.
Social Justice Book Summaries
Radical Inclusion
Seven Steps to Help You Create a More Just Workplace, Home, and World
Social Justice
Self Help
Leadership
After the Fall
Being American in the World We've Made
Politics
History
Memoir
Slavery by Another Name
The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
History
Race
Politics
Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma
Social Justice
Psychology
Spirituality
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
History
Indigenous
Social Justice
Worse Than Slavery
Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
History
Race
African American
Digital Dead End
Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age
Technology
Social Justice
Librarianship
This Is My America
Young Adult
Contemporary
Realistic Fiction
Giving Up Is Unforgivable
A Manual for Keeping a Democracy
Politics
History
Social Justice
No Straight Road Takes You There
Essays for Uneven Terrain
Essays
Politics
Feminism
Why David Sometimes Wins
Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement
History
Labor
Politics
Reveille for Radicals
Politics
Philosophy
History
Uncommon Wealth
Britain and the Aftermath of Empire
History
Politics
Economics
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
Politics
History
Essays
A Man Called White
The Autobiography of Walter White
Biography
History
Politics
A Protest History of the United States
History
Politics
American History
How the South Won the Civil War
Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
History
Politics
American History
At the Hands of Persons Unknown
The Lynching of Black America
History
Race
American History
Medicine River
A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools
History
Indigenous
Memoir
Ain't I a Woman
Black Women and Feminism
Feminism
Race
History
The Great Contradiction
The Tragic Side of the American Founding
History
American History
Politics
Serving with Eyes Wide Open
Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence
Christian
Faith
Christianity
Copaganda
How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
Politics
Social Justice
History
Cherished Belonging
The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times
Spirituality
Faith
Psychology
Our Palestine Question
Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978
History
Jewish
Judaism
What if I Say the Wrong Thing?
25 Habits for Culturally Effective People
Self Help
Leadership
Anti Racist
The Lost and the Found
A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances
Memoir
Sociology
Social Issues
The Second
Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
History
Politics
Race
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust
Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism
History
Africa
Race
We Will Be Jaguars
A Memoir of My People
Memoir
Indigenous
History
Unsettling Truths
The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
History
Race
Theology
