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
Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma
Social Justice
Psychology
Spirituality
The Second
Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
History
Politics
Race
Digital Dead End
Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age
Technology
Social Justice
Librarianship
Dying of Whiteness
How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Politics
Race
Social Justice
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
History
Politics
Sociology
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
History
Race
American History
The Half Has Never Been Told
Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
History
Race
Economics
When Affirmative Action Was White
An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
History
Race
Politics
A Protest History of the United States
History
Politics
American History
The Macho Paradox
Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help
Feminism
Gender
Sociology
Race and Manifest Destiny
Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism
History
Race
American History
Stamped from the Beginning
The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
History
Race
Social Justice
Freedom’s Dominion
A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
History
Politics
Race
Stony the Road
Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
History
Race
Politics
A Different Mirror
A History of Multicultural America
History
Race
Social Justice
Not "A Nation of Immigrants"
Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
History
Politics
Race
White Flight
Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
History
Politics
Race
Racial Innocence
Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality
Race
Social Justice
Latinx
The Ground Breaking
An American City and Its Search for Justice
History
Race
Social Justice
Mediocre
The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Feminism
Politics
History
Earth Democracy
Justice, Sustainability, and Peace
Environment
Politics
Sustainability
Truth and Repair
How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
Psychology
Mental Health
Social Justice
Working Toward Whiteness
How America's Immigrants Became White: the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
History
Race
Sociology
The Privatization of Everything
How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
Politics
Economics
History
White Supremacy
A Comparative Study of American and South African History
History
Race
American History
Beyond Outrage
What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it
Politics
Economics
History
Categorically Unequal
The American Stratification System
Sociology
Politics
Economics
Red State Revolt
The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics
Politics
Labor
History
Healing Collective Trauma
A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds
Psychology
Social Justice
Self Help
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Politics
History
Memoir
Dog Whistle Politics
How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
Politics
Race
History
Wards of the State
The Long Shadow of American Foster Care
History
Politics
Social Justice
Rough Sleepers
Biography
Medicine
Social Justice
Whitewashing Race
The Myth of a Color-Blind Society
Race
Sociology
Politics
Uneasy Alliances
Race and Party Competition in America
Politics
Political Science
Social Justice
American Poison
How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise
Race
Politics
History
Algorithms of Oppression
How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Race
Technology
Social Justice
Rich Thanks to Racism
Race
Economics
Politics
American Prison
A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
History
Politics
Sociology
An American Summer
True Crime
Sociology
Crime
Unsettling Truths
The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
History
Race
Theology
