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
Worse Than Slavery
Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
History
Race
African American
Radical Inclusion
Seven Steps to Help You Create a More Just Workplace, Home, and World
Social Justice
Self Help
Leadership
Franchise
The Golden Arches in Black America
History
Business
Race
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
History
Indigenous
Social Justice
After the Fall
Being American in the World We've Made
Politics
History
Memoir
Giving Up Is Unforgivable
A Manual for Keeping a Democracy
Politics
History
Social Justice
This Is My America
Young Adult
Contemporary
Realistic Fiction
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
Politics
History
Essays
Cherished Belonging
The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times
Spirituality
Faith
Psychology
Copaganda
How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
Politics
Social Justice
History
Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma
Social Justice
Psychology
Spirituality
Medicine River
A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools
History
Indigenous
Memoir
The Just City
Urban Planning
Urbanism
Cities
How the South Won the Civil War
Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
History
Politics
American History
No Straight Road Takes You There
Essays for Uneven Terrain
Essays
Politics
Feminism
Uncommon Wealth
Britain and the Aftermath of Empire
History
Politics
Economics
Why David Sometimes Wins
Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement
History
Labor
Politics
The Great Contradiction
The Tragic Side of the American Founding
History
American History
Politics
We Will Be Jaguars
A Memoir of My People
Memoir
Indigenous
History
Reveille for Radicals
Politics
Philosophy
History
Digital Dead End
Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age
Technology
Social Justice
Librarianship
Ain't I a Woman
Black Women and Feminism
Feminism
Race
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
Entitled
How Male Privilege Hurts Women
Feminism
Philosophy
Politics
A Protest History of the United States
History
Politics
American History
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
Our Palestine Question
Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978
History
Jewish
Judaism
The Lost and the Found
A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances
Memoir
Sociology
Social Issues
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust
Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism
History
Africa
Race
Elite Capture
How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics
Politics
Philosophy
Race
Medical Apartheid
The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
History
Race
Science
All the Single Ladies
Feminism
History
Politics
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
History
Politics
Sociology
The Macho Paradox
Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help
Feminism
Gender
Sociology
Dying of Whiteness
How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Politics
Race
Social Justice
When Affirmative Action Was White
An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
History
Race
Politics
American Slavery, American Freedom
History
American History
Race
White Identity Politics
Politics
Race
Political Science
The Half Has Never Been Told
Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
History
Race
Economics
Fragmented Democracy
Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics
Politics
Race
Health Care
Healing Collective Trauma
A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds
Psychology
Social Justice
Self Help
Freedom’s Dominion
A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
History
Politics
Race
Whiteness of a Different Color
European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
History
Race
Sociology
The Privatization of Everything
How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
Politics
Economics
History
The Great Experiment
Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure
Politics
History
Philosophy
Democracy in Chains
The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Politics
History
Economics
The Guarded Gate
Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
History
Politics
American History
