Ras

Böcker i denna genre konfronterar de komplexa verkligheterna kring rasidentitet, rättvisa och makt i samhället genom personliga berättelser, vetenskaplig analys och kulturell kommentar. Dessa viktiga verk granskar systemisk rasism, medborgerliga rättigheter, massfängslande, utbildningsreform och de levda erfarenheterna hos icke-vita personer i olika tider och på olika platser.

Ras Boksammanfattningar

Long Walk to Freedom

av Nelson Mandela • 1994

His 27-year imprisonment is legend. The decades of organizing that led there tell the real story.

4.36

94 000+

✊ Anti-Apartheid Struggle 🇿🇦 South African History 📖 Political Memoirs 🚶 Civil Disobedience 🌄 Political Awakening

Long Walk to Freedom

His 27-year imprisonment is legend. The decades of organizing that led there tell the real story.

av Nelson Mandela 1994 558 sidor

4.36

94 000+ betyg

✊ Anti-Apartheid Struggle 🇿🇦 South African History 📖 Political Memoirs 🚶 Civil Disobedience 🌄 Political Awakening

American Like Me

av America Ferrera • 2018

Actors and athletes on the day their Americanness was questioned, and the moment they claimed it.

4.32

6 000+

🧩 Hyphenated Identity 🌐 Diaspora 👥 Double Consciousness 🌟 Celebrity Memoir ✍️ Personal Essays

American Like Me

Actors and athletes on the day their Americanness was questioned, and the moment they claimed it.

av America Ferrera 2018 337 sidor

4.32

6 000+ betyg

🧩 Hyphenated Identity 🌐 Diaspora 👥 Double Consciousness 🌟 Celebrity Memoir ✍️ Personal Essays

Juryn

av John Grisham • 1989

A father kills his daughter's rapists in court. Can a young lawyer save him from execution?

4.12

800 000+

⚖️ Legal Thriller 🏛️ Courtroom Drama 🔫 Vigilante Justice 🏘️ Small Town Tensions 🖤 Racial Injustice

Immersiv

Juryn

A father kills his daughter's rapists in court. Can a young lawyer save him from execution?

av John Grisham 1989 738 sidor

4.12

800 000+ betyg

⚖️ Legal Thriller 🏛️ Courtroom Drama 🔫 Vigilante Justice 🏘️ Small Town Tensions 🖤 Racial Injustice

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

av James McBride • 2023

Chicken Hill's Black and Jewish neighbors conspire to rescue a deaf boy from a state asylum.

3.91

300 000+

🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🤲 Found Family ⚖️ Institutional Cruelty 🌿 Quiet Resilience 🏡 Small Town America

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

Chicken Hill's Black and Jewish neighbors conspire to rescue a deaf boy from a state asylum.

av James McBride 2023 400 sidor

3.91

300 000+ betyg

🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🤲 Found Family ⚖️ Institutional Cruelty 🌿 Quiet Resilience 🏡 Small Town America

Homegoing

av Yaa Gyasi • 2016

Two half-sisters: a governor's bride above, a captive below. Their lines diverge for centuries.

4.47

400 000+

🏛️ Generational Saga ⛓️ Colonial Legacy 🌍 Diaspora Identity 🩸 Inherited Trauma 🪔 Jim Crow South

Homegoing

Two half-sisters: a governor's bride above, a captive below. Their lines diverge for centuries.

av Yaa Gyasi 2016 305 sidor

4.47

400 000+ betyg

🏛️ Generational Saga ⛓️ Colonial Legacy 🌍 Diaspora Identity 🩸 Inherited Trauma 🪔 Jim Crow South

The Four Pivots

av Shawn A. Ginwright • 2022

The movement is burning out its people. Here's how to fight for justice and stay whole.

4.34

1 000+

🩹 Healing Justice 🌱 Sustainable Activism 😴 Rest As Resistance 💛 Community Healing ⚖️ Restorative Justice

The Four Pivots

The movement is burning out its people. Here's how to fight for justice and stay whole.

av Shawn A. Ginwright 2022 272 sidor

4.34

1 000+ betyg

🩹 Healing Justice 🌱 Sustainable Activism 😴 Rest As Resistance 💛 Community Healing ⚖️ Restorative Justice

Dear Martin

av Nic Stone • 2017

Wrongfully arrested, a Black teen writes a civil rights icon. A cop's bullet tests his nonviolence.

4.33

86 000+

🚨 Racial Profiling 👮🏾‍♂️ Police Brutality ⛓️ Wrongful Arrest 🏫 Private School 💕 Interracial Romance

Dear Martin

Wrongfully arrested, a Black teen writes a civil rights icon. A cop's bullet tests his nonviolence.

av Nic Stone 2017 208 sidor

4.33

86 000+ betyg

🚨 Racial Profiling 👮🏾‍♂️ Police Brutality ⛓️ Wrongful Arrest 🏫 Private School 💕 Interracial Romance

Finding Me

av Viola Davis • 2022

Rats, bullies, bed-wetting at 14: the childhood Viola Davis survived before the stage saved her.

4.53

100 000+

⭐️ Celebrity Memoirs 🎭 Actor Memoirs 🏚️ Childhood Poverty 🔗 Generational Trauma 🟤 Colorism

Finding Me

Rats, bullies, bed-wetting at 14: the childhood Viola Davis survived before the stage saved her.

av Viola Davis 2022 304 sidor

4.53

100 000+ betyg

⭐️ Celebrity Memoirs 🎭 Actor Memoirs 🏚️ Childhood Poverty 🔗 Generational Trauma 🟤 Colorism

Dödssynden

av Harper Lee • 1960

A lawyer defends a Black man in 1930s Alabama, and his daughter sees her town's true face.

4.26

6 000 000+

🏚️ Southern Gothic ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 👧 Child Narrator 🎭 False Accusation 🌞 Deep South

Dödssynden

A lawyer defends a Black man in 1930s Alabama, and his daughter sees her town's true face.

av Harper Lee 1960 323 sidor

4.26

6 000 000+ betyg

🏚️ Southern Gothic ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 👧 Child Narrator 🎭 False Accusation 🌞 Deep South

Cry, the Beloved Country

av Alan Paton • 1948

A rural priest arrives in Johannesburg to find his son charged with murdering a white crusader.

3.93

80 000+

🟫 Apartheid Era 🟫 Fathers And Sons 🟫 Tribal Disintegration 🟫 Rural Depopulation 🟫 Murder Trial

Cry, the Beloved Country

A rural priest arrives in Johannesburg to find his son charged with murdering a white crusader.

av Alan Paton 1948 316 sidor

3.93

80 000+ betyg

🟫 Apartheid Era 🟫 Fathers And Sons 🟫 Tribal Disintegration 🟫 Rural Depopulation 🟫 Murder Trial

Are Prisons Obsolete?

av Angela Y. Davis • 2003

Prisons are modern slavery, built for profit rather than safety. Reform only makes them stronger.

4.51

30 000+

⛓️ Prison Abolition 🏛️ Mass Incarceration 🕊️ Restorative Justice 🏭 Prison Industrial Complex ✊🏾 Black Feminism

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Prisons are modern slavery, built for profit rather than safety. Reform only makes them stronger.

av Angela Y. Davis 2003 126 sidor

4.51

30 000+ betyg

⛓️ Prison Abolition 🏛️ Mass Incarceration 🕊️ Restorative Justice 🏭 Prison Industrial Complex ✊🏾 Black Feminism

All the Sinners Bleed

av S.A. Cosby • 2023

A school shooting exposes secret child killers, forcing a Virginia sheriff to hunt his neighbors.

4.20

100 000+

🔥 Southern Noir 🔍 Serial Killer Investigation 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 👮 Tortured Lawman ✝️ Religious Fanaticism

All the Sinners Bleed

A school shooting exposes secret child killers, forcing a Virginia sheriff to hunt his neighbors.

av S.A. Cosby 2023 338 sidor

4.20

100 000+ betyg

🔥 Southern Noir 🔍 Serial Killer Investigation 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 👮 Tortured Lawman ✝️ Religious Fanaticism

New Boy

av Tracy Chevalier • 2017

The new Black boy at a 1970s D.C. school catches a girl's eye and a bully's wrath.

3.49

9 000+

🎭 Shakespeare Retelling 🎠 Playground Politics ⚡ Racial Tension 🇺🇸 1970s America 🐍 Jealousy And Betrayal

New Boy

The new Black boy at a 1970s D.C. school catches a girl's eye and a bully's wrath.

av Tracy Chevalier 2017 188 sidor

3.49

9 000+ betyg

🎭 Shakespeare Retelling 🎠 Playground Politics ⚡ Racial Tension 🇺🇸 1970s America 🐍 Jealousy And Betrayal

Design Justice

av Sasha Costanza-Chock • 2020

Design decides who benefits and who gets hurt. The communities on the losing end are now leading.

4.18

500+

🫱🏾‍🫲🏽 Participatory Design ⚖️ Tech Ethics 🤖 Algorithmic Bias ✊🏿 Intersectional Feminism 🔍 Critical Design Studies

Design Justice

Design decides who benefits and who gets hurt. The communities on the losing end are now leading.

av Sasha Costanza-Chock 2020 360 sidor

4.18

500+ betyg

🫱🏾‍🫲🏽 Participatory Design ⚖️ Tech Ethics 🤖 Algorithmic Bias ✊🏿 Intersectional Feminism 🔍 Critical Design Studies

From the Ashes

av Jesse Thistle • 2019

Addiction took his home and nearly his leg. His lost Métis identity showed him another way.

4.49

34 000+

🪶 Indigenous Memoir 💊 Addiction Recovery 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🍃 Cultural Reclamation 🏕️ Survival Memoir

From the Ashes

Addiction took his home and nearly his leg. His lost Métis identity showed him another way.

av Jesse Thistle 2019 384 sidor

4.49

34 000+ betyg

🪶 Indigenous Memoir 💊 Addiction Recovery 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🍃 Cultural Reclamation 🏕️ Survival Memoir

A Promised Land

av Barack Obama • 2020

The Obama presidency from the inside: economic crisis, the healthcare battle, and the cost of hope.

4.31

200 000+

📖 Presidential Memoirs 🏛️ American Politics 🏥 Healthcare Reform 📉 Economic Crisis Response 🧑🏾‍🦱 Racial Identity

A Promised Land

The Obama presidency from the inside: economic crisis, the healthcare battle, and the cost of hope.

av Barack Obama 2020 768 sidor

4.31

200 000+ betyg

📖 Presidential Memoirs 🏛️ American Politics 🏥 Healthcare Reform 📉 Economic Crisis Response 🧑🏾‍🦱 Racial Identity

My Grandmother's Hands

av Resmaa Menakem • 2017

Racism lives in the body, not the mind. Healing starts with the nervous system.

4.38

11 000+

🧠 Somatic Psychology 🖤 Racial Trauma ✊ Embodied Anti-Racism 🧬 Polyvagal Theory 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma

My Grandmother's Hands

Racism lives in the body, not the mind. Healing starts with the nervous system.

av Resmaa Menakem 2017 311 sidor

4.38

11 000+ betyg

🧠 Somatic Psychology 🖤 Racial Trauma ✊ Embodied Anti-Racism 🧬 Polyvagal Theory 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma

Blended

av Sharon M. Draper • 2018

Between her white mom and Black dad, Isabella searches for the melody that sounds like her.

4.16

19 000+

🖤 Biracial Protagonist 📅 Shared Custody 🎹 Piano As Escape 🏫 School Racism 🚔 Police Violence

Blended

Between her white mom and Black dad, Isabella searches for the melody that sounds like her.

av Sharon M. Draper 2018 308 sidor

4.16

19 000+ betyg

🖤 Biracial Protagonist 📅 Shared Custody 🎹 Piano As Escape 🏫 School Racism 🚔 Police Violence

A People’s History of the United States

av Howard Zinn • 1980

The history you learned in school is a cover story for class war, genocide, and slave revolts.

4.09

200 000+

📖 Revisionist History 🔍 History From Below 🦅 American Empire 🏚️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Class Struggle

A People’s History of the United States

The history you learned in school is a cover story for class war, genocide, and slave revolts.

av Howard Zinn 1980 729 sidor

4.09

200 000+ betyg

📖 Revisionist History 🔍 History From Below 🦅 American Empire 🏚️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Class Struggle

The Body Is Not an Apology

av Sonya Renee Taylor • 2018

Your body shame is a business model. Reclaiming your body is the exit strategy.

4.21

31 000+

🌸 Body Positivity ✊ Intersectional Feminism 🍽️ Anti-Diet Culture 🔗 Internalized Oppression 🕊️ Body Liberation

The Body Is Not an Apology

Your body shame is a business model. Reclaiming your body is the exit strategy.

av Sonya Renee Taylor 2018 137 sidor

4.21

31 000+ betyg

🌸 Body Positivity ✊ Intersectional Feminism 🍽️ Anti-Diet Culture 🔗 Internalized Oppression 🕊️ Body Liberation

Is Everyone Really Equal?

av Özlem Sensoy • 2011

The most comfortable explanation for inequality is individual failure. It's also the most wrong.

4.05

1 000+

🎓 Social Justice Education 📚 Critical Race Theory 🔀 Intersectionality ⚖️ Systemic Inequality ✊ Anti-Racism

Is Everyone Really Equal?

The most comfortable explanation for inequality is individual failure. It's also the most wrong.

av Özlem Sensoy 2011 288 sidor

4.05

1 000+ betyg

🎓 Social Justice Education 📚 Critical Race Theory 🔀 Intersectionality ⚖️ Systemic Inequality ✊ Anti-Racism

Poverty, by America

av Matthew Desmond • 2023

Poverty in America persists by design, fueled by exploitation and welfare that flows to the top.

4.27

63 000+

🏚️ Housing Exploitation 🛠️ Labor Exploitation 💰 Affluent Welfare 🏘️ Residential Segregation 🚧 Opportunity Hoarding

Poverty, by America

Poverty in America persists by design, fueled by exploitation and welfare that flows to the top.

av Matthew Desmond 2023 284 sidor

4.27

63 000+ betyg

🏚️ Housing Exploitation 🛠️ Labor Exploitation 💰 Affluent Welfare 🏘️ Residential Segregation 🚧 Opportunity Hoarding

Hood Feminism

av Mikki Kendall • 2020

The feminism that fights for the corner office ignores women who can't afford lunch. Their agenda.

4.35

64 000+

🖤 Black Feminism 🍲 Food Insecurity ⚖️ Reproductive Justice 🔗 Systemic Racism 🎨 Colorism

Hood Feminism

The feminism that fights for the corner office ignores women who can't afford lunch. Their agenda.

av Mikki Kendall 2020 267 sidor

4.35

64 000+ betyg

🖤 Black Feminism 🍲 Food Insecurity ⚖️ Reproductive Justice 🔗 Systemic Racism 🎨 Colorism

Blindspot

av Mahzarin R. Banaji • 2013

A reaction-time test can reveal biases your conscious mind rejects, and strategies to close the gap.

3.72

6 000+

🧠 Cognitive Bias 🎭 Implicit Bias 👥 Social Psychology 📊 Behavioral Science ✊ Anti-Racism

Blindspot

A reaction-time test can reveal biases your conscious mind rejects, and strategies to close the gap.

av Mahzarin R. Banaji 2013 254 sidor

3.72

6 000+ betyg

🧠 Cognitive Bias 🎭 Implicit Bias 👥 Social Psychology 📊 Behavioral Science ✊ Anti-Racism

Teaching to Transgress

av bell hooks • 1994

Teaching as resistance: bell hooks demands a classroom that confronts power, not just transmits it.

4.44

13 000+

📚 Critical Pedagogy ✊🏿 Anti-Racist Education 🚺 Feminist Pedagogy 🌍 Multicultural Education 🌱 Holistic Education

Teaching to Transgress

Teaching as resistance: bell hooks demands a classroom that confronts power, not just transmits it.

av bell hooks 1994 216 sidor

4.44

13 000+ betyg

📚 Critical Pedagogy ✊🏿 Anti-Racist Education 🚺 Feminist Pedagogy 🌍 Multicultural Education 🌱 Holistic Education

Women, Race, & Class

av Angela Y. Davis • 1981

From abolition to abortion, the women's movement has a race problem it has never solved.

4.59

35 000+

🖤 Black Feminism 🧩 Intersectionality 🏥 Reproductive Justice 🏠 Domestic Labor 🌱 Abolitionist Roots

Women, Race, & Class

From abolition to abortion, the women's movement has a race problem it has never solved.

av Angela Y. Davis 1981 288 sidor

4.59

35 000+ betyg

🖤 Black Feminism 🧩 Intersectionality 🏥 Reproductive Justice 🏠 Domestic Labor 🌱 Abolitionist Roots

Punching the Air

av Ibi Zoboi • 2020

Convicted after a fight, a Black teen artist paints the truth the courtroom would not hear.

4.39

24 000+

🎨 Art As Survival ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction 🔒 Juvenile Detention ✊🏾 Racial Injustice 🖋️ Novel In Verse

Punching the Air

Convicted after a fight, a Black teen artist paints the truth the courtroom would not hear.

av Ibi Zoboi 2020 400 sidor

4.39

24 000+ betyg

🎨 Art As Survival ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction 🔒 Juvenile Detention ✊🏾 Racial Injustice 🖋️ Novel In Verse

All Boys Aren't Blue

av George M. Johnson • 2020

Inside his grandmother's home, safety. Outside: a world unprepared for a Black queer boy.

4.18

47 000+

🏳️‍🌈 Black Queer Experience 🌱 Coming-Of-Age Memoir 💪 Redefining Masculinity 🔍 Sexual Self-Discovery 🏠 Family Foundations

All Boys Aren't Blue

Inside his grandmother's home, safety. Outside: a world unprepared for a Black queer boy.

av George M. Johnson 2020 304 sidor

4.18

47 000+ betyg

🏳️‍🌈 Black Queer Experience 🌱 Coming-Of-Age Memoir 💪 Redefining Masculinity 🔍 Sexual Self-Discovery 🏠 Family Foundations

Dark Alliance

av Gary Webb • 1998

The CIA's Contra army needed money. The cocaine they smuggled to get it fueled LA's crack epidemic.

4.30

2 000+

🕵️ Investigative Journalism 💥 Crack Epidemic 🕶️ Covert Operations 💊 Drug War Origins 🌎 Cold War Interventions

Dark Alliance

The CIA's Contra army needed money. The cocaine they smuggled to get it fueled LA's crack epidemic.

av Gary Webb 1998 601 sidor

4.30

2 000+ betyg

🕵️ Investigative Journalism 💥 Crack Epidemic 🕶️ Covert Operations 💊 Drug War Origins 🌎 Cold War Interventions

How to Be an Antiracist

av Ibram X. Kendi • 2019

Racist policies produce racist ideas, not ignorance. The only real options are complicity or action.

4.36

100 000+

🏗️ Structural Racism 📖 Modern Antiracism 📚 Critical Race Theory 🔀 Intersectionality ⚖️ Systemic Inequity

How to Be an Antiracist

Racist policies produce racist ideas, not ignorance. The only real options are complicity or action.

av Ibram X. Kendi 2019 305 sidor

4.36

100 000+ betyg

🏗️ Structural Racism 📖 Modern Antiracism 📚 Critical Race Theory 🔀 Intersectionality ⚖️ Systemic Inequity

Allt jag aldrig berättat

av Celeste Ng • 2014

She was the daughter they pinned their hopes on. The lake knew what they never asked.

3.83

600 000+

🧬 Biracial Family 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 😰 Parental Expectations 🖤 Quiet Devastation 🇺🇸 1970s America

Allt jag aldrig berättat

She was the daughter they pinned their hopes on. The lake knew what they never asked.

av Celeste Ng 2014 297 sidor

3.83

600 000+ betyg

🧬 Biracial Family 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 😰 Parental Expectations 🖤 Quiet Devastation 🇺🇸 1970s America

The Spook Who Sat by the Door

av Sam Greenlee • 1969

A black CIA recruit secretly trains a Chicago street gang to fight a guerrilla war.

4.34

3 000+

🔥 Guerrilla Resistance 🎭 Double Life 💔 Friends To Enemies ✊🏿 Black Liberation 📜 Civil Rights Era

The Spook Who Sat by the Door

A black CIA recruit secretly trains a Chicago street gang to fight a guerrilla war.

av Sam Greenlee 1969 256 sidor

4.34

3 000+ betyg

🔥 Guerrilla Resistance 🎭 Double Life 💔 Friends To Enemies ✊🏿 Black Liberation 📜 Civil Rights Era

Counseling the Culturally Diverse

av Derald Wing Sue • 1981

Why standard therapy fails diverse clients, and the clinical skills that keep them in the room.

3.80

1 000+

🧑‍🏫 Multicultural Counseling 🌍 Cross-Cultural Therapy ✊ Social Justice Advocacy 🛡️ Anti-Racist Therapy 🧠 Multicultural Psychology

Counseling the Culturally Diverse

Why standard therapy fails diverse clients, and the clinical skills that keep them in the room.

av Derald Wing Sue 1981 648 sidor

3.80

1 000+ betyg

🧑‍🏫 Multicultural Counseling 🌍 Cross-Cultural Therapy ✊ Social Justice Advocacy 🛡️ Anti-Racist Therapy 🧠 Multicultural Psychology

På jorden är vi flyktigt storslagna

av Ocean Vuong • 2019

A son's letter to his illiterate mother traces war, displacement, and a brutal first love.

4.00

400 000+

📝 Epistolary Novel 🌊 Poetic Prose 🪞 Autofiction 🧳 Vietnamese Diaspora 🩹 Intergenerational Trauma

På jorden är vi flyktigt storslagna

A son's letter to his illiterate mother traces war, displacement, and a brutal first love.

av Ocean Vuong 2019 246 sidor

4.00

400 000+ betyg

📝 Epistolary Novel 🌊 Poetic Prose 🪞 Autofiction 🧳 Vietnamese Diaspora 🩹 Intergenerational Trauma

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

av Maya Angelou • 1969

After an assault at eight, she went mute for five years. Then books taught her to speak.

4.30

500 000+

📖 Literary Memoir 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoir 🏚️ Jim Crow South 💔 Childhood Sexual Abuse 🎤 Finding Your Voice

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

After an assault at eight, she went mute for five years. Then books taught her to speak.

av Maya Angelou 1969 289 sidor

4.30

500 000+ betyg

📖 Literary Memoir 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoir 🏚️ Jim Crow South 💔 Childhood Sexual Abuse 🎤 Finding Your Voice

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

av Christopher Sergel • 1995

In 1930s Alabama, Scout's father defends a Black man, forcing her to see her town's hidden face.

4.51

24 000+

🏘️ Small Town South ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 👧 Child Narrator 🕊️ Unjustly Accused 🌱 Coming Of Age Classic

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

In 1930s Alabama, Scout's father defends a Black man, forcing her to see her town's hidden face.

av Christopher Sergel 1995 128 sidor

4.51

24 000+ betyg

🏘️ Small Town South ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 👧 Child Narrator 🕊️ Unjustly Accused 🌱 Coming Of Age Classic

The Girls of Atomic City

av Denise Kiernan • 2013

The young women of Oak Ridge built the atomic bomb. None of them knew it.

3.73

32 000+

🏭 Manhattan Project 👩‍🔧 Women In Wartime ☢️ Atomic Age 🎙️ Oral History 🏅 Unsung Heroes

The Girls of Atomic City

The young women of Oak Ridge built the atomic bomb. None of them knew it.

av Denise Kiernan 2013 373 sidor

3.73

32 000+ betyg

🏭 Manhattan Project 👩‍🔧 Women In Wartime ☢️ Atomic Age 🎙️ Oral History 🏅 Unsung Heroes

Native Son

av Richard Wright • 1940

A Black chauffeur in segregated Chicago accidentally kills a white heiress and tries to hide it.

4.04

100 000+

🏙️ Urban Poverty 🏛️ Segregation Era 🔥 Accidental Killing 🏃 Fugitive On The Run ⚖️ Courtroom Drama

Native Son

A Black chauffeur in segregated Chicago accidentally kills a white heiress and tries to hide it.

av Richard Wright 1940 504 sidor

4.04

100 000+ betyg

🏙️ Urban Poverty 🏛️ Segregation Era 🔥 Accidental Killing 🏃 Fugitive On The Run ⚖️ Courtroom Drama

If You Tell

av Gregg Olsen • 2019

Oil made the Osage the richest people on earth. Then trusted friends began murdering them for it.

3.98

300 000+

📜 Historical True Crime 📰 Investigative Journalism 🏛️ Institutional Corruption 🔍 Murder Investigation ⚖️ Racial Exploitation

If You Tell

Oil made the Osage the richest people on earth. Then trusted friends began murdering them for it.

av Gregg Olsen 2019 431 sidor

3.98

300 000+ betyg

📜 Historical True Crime 📰 Investigative Journalism 🏛️ Institutional Corruption 🔍 Murder Investigation ⚖️ Racial Exploitation

The House of Eve

av Sadeqa Johnson • 2023

1940s America: two Black women, two unplanned pregnancies, one impossible choice: child or future.

4.25

100 000+

🫄 Unwed Pregnancy 💔 Coerced Adoption 💑 Interracial Romance 🎭 Class And Colorism 📻 1940s America

The House of Eve

1940s America: two Black women, two unplanned pregnancies, one impossible choice: child or future.

av Sadeqa Johnson 2023 384 sidor

4.25

100 000+ betyg

🫄 Unwed Pregnancy 💔 Coerced Adoption 💑 Interracial Romance 🎭 Class And Colorism 📻 1940s America

Pleasure Activism

av Adrienne Maree Brown • 2019

Reclaim joy as a radical political act, and use pleasure to fuel your activism and your life.

4.22

9 000+

📚 Feminist Theory 🏗️ Movement Building 🧘 Body Liberation 🔥 Sexual Empowerment 💊 Harm Reduction

Pleasure Activism

Reclaim joy as a radical political act, and use pleasure to fuel your activism and your life.

av Adrienne Maree Brown 2019 441 sidor

4.22

9 000+ betyg

📚 Feminist Theory 🏗️ Movement Building 🧘 Body Liberation 🔥 Sexual Empowerment 💊 Harm Reduction

Ten Myths About Israel

av Ilan Pappé • 2017

Ten founding myths of Israel, debunked: the land wasn't empty and the flight wasn't voluntary.

4.40

6 000+

🇵🇸 Israel-Palestine 🏴 Settler Colonialism 📜 Historical Revisionism 🏛️ New Historians 🚨 Ethnic Cleansing

Ten Myths About Israel

Ten founding myths of Israel, debunked: the land wasn't empty and the flight wasn't voluntary.

av Ilan Pappé 2017 192 sidor

4.40

6 000+ betyg

🇵🇸 Israel-Palestine 🏴 Settler Colonialism 📜 Historical Revisionism 🏛️ New Historians 🚨 Ethnic Cleansing

Den underjordiska järnvägen

av Colson Whitehead • 2016

On a literal railroad beneath the South, Cora flees captivity, hunted by a relentless slave catcher.

4.06

400 000+

🖤 Neo-Slave Narrative 🌾 Antebellum South 🕯️ Generational Trauma 👥 Found Family ⚠️ Unflinching Brutality

Den underjordiska järnvägen

On a literal railroad beneath the South, Cora flees captivity, hunted by a relentless slave catcher.

av Colson Whitehead 2016 306 sidor

4.06

400 000+ betyg

🖤 Neo-Slave Narrative 🌾 Antebellum South 🕯️ Generational Trauma 👥 Found Family ⚠️ Unflinching Brutality

Vita tänder

av Zadie Smith • 2000

Two wartime pals and their kids battle God, science, and identity in a chaotic London.

3.79

100 000+

🇬🇧 Multicultural London 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 🌱 Children Of Immigrants ⚔️ Religious Radicalism 🧬 Genetic Engineering Ethics

Vita tänder

Two wartime pals and their kids battle God, science, and identity in a chaotic London.

av Zadie Smith 2000 448 sidor

3.79

100 000+ betyg

🇬🇧 Multicultural London 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 🌱 Children Of Immigrants ⚔️ Religious Radicalism 🧬 Genetic Engineering Ethics

The House of Hunger

av Dambudzo Marechera • 1978

He leaves the house that starved him, but the starvation has moved inside him forever.

3.95

1 000+

🌍 Post-Colonial Fiction 🧠 Psychological Breakdown 🪞 Internalized Oppression 👊 Sibling Violence 💔 Lost Love

The House of Hunger

He leaves the house that starved him, but the starvation has moved inside him forever.

av Dambudzo Marechera 1978 160 sidor

3.95

1 000+ betyg

🌍 Post-Colonial Fiction 🧠 Psychological Breakdown 🪞 Internalized Oppression 👊 Sibling Violence 💔 Lost Love

The Human Stain

av Philip Roth • 2000

One word destroys a professor's career. His oldest secret could destroy everything else.

3.92

46 000+

🎭 Racial Passing 📚 Academic Novel 🇺🇸 1990s America ⚡ Scandal And Disgrace ✨ Self Invention

The Human Stain

One word destroys a professor's career. His oldest secret could destroy everything else.

av Philip Roth 2000 361 sidor

3.92

46 000+ betyg

🎭 Racial Passing 📚 Academic Novel 🇺🇸 1990s America ⚡ Scandal And Disgrace ✨ Self Invention

Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher

av Stephen D. Brookfield • 1995

Uncover the hidden assumptions that run your classroom, even the ones that feel like common sense.

4.05

273

🪞 Reflective Practice ✊🏿 Critical Pedagogy 🏛️ College Faculty 🧑‍🏫 Adult Learning 🛠️ Faculty Development

Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher

Uncover the hidden assumptions that run your classroom, even the ones that feel like common sense.

av Stephen D. Brookfield 1995 296 sidor

4.05

273 betyg

🪞 Reflective Practice ✊🏿 Critical Pedagogy 🏛️ College Faculty 🧑‍🏫 Adult Learning 🛠️ Faculty Development

Message to the Blackman in America

av Elijah Muhammad • 1965

A Black God, a manufactured white race, and a detailed plan for economic and political separation.

4.45

500+

🕌 Nation Of Islam ✝️ Black Liberation Theology ✊🏿 Black Nationalism 🗽 Self-Determination 💰 Economic Independence

Message to the Blackman in America

A Black God, a manufactured white race, and a detailed plan for economic and political separation.

av Elijah Muhammad 1965 386 sidor

4.45

500+ betyg

🕌 Nation Of Islam ✝️ Black Liberation Theology ✊🏿 Black Nationalism 🗽 Self-Determination 💰 Economic Independence

Gracism

av David A. Anderson • 2007

The biblical case for giving your church's highest honors to the people it usually overlooks.

3.78

373

🕊️ Racial Reconciliation ⛪ Church Inclusion ⚖️ Biblical Justice 🌍 Inclusive Leadership 🤝 Christian Unity

Gracism

The biblical case for giving your church's highest honors to the people it usually overlooks.

av David A. Anderson 2007 160 sidor

3.78

373 betyg

🕊️ Racial Reconciliation ⛪ Church Inclusion ⚖️ Biblical Justice 🌍 Inclusive Leadership 🤝 Christian Unity

The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison

av Jeffrey H. Reiman • 1979

The justice system ignores corporate harm and targets the poor. That failure is its real job.

3.94

500+

⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform 🔍 Critical Criminology 💰 Class And Inequality 🏢 White-Collar Crime 🔒 Mass Incarceration

The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison

The justice system ignores corporate harm and targets the poor. That failure is its real job.

av Jeffrey H. Reiman 1979 260 sidor

3.94

500+ betyg

⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform 🔍 Critical Criminology 💰 Class And Inequality 🏢 White-Collar Crime 🔒 Mass Incarceration

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