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

Stolen Pride

av Arlie Russell Hochschild • 2024

Shame from economic decline, redirected into racial blame, powers today's right-wing resurgence.

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🏛️ American Politics 🌾 Rural Sociology 🏭 Deindustrialization ⛰️ Appalachian Studies 😤 Political Emotion

Stolen Pride

Shame from economic decline, redirected into racial blame, powers today's right-wing resurgence.

av Arlie Russell Hochschild 2024 400 sidor

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🏛️ American Politics 🌾 Rural Sociology 🏭 Deindustrialization ⛰️ Appalachian Studies 😤 Political Emotion

Tangled Up in Blue

av Rosa Brooks • 2021

A law professor joined the police. The training is built to save officers, not the public.

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🚔 Policing Reform ⚖️ Biased Policing 🎯 Police Training 🔗 Criminal Justice Reform ✋ Use Of Force

Tangled Up in Blue

A law professor joined the police. The training is built to save officers, not the public.

av Rosa Brooks 2021 413 sidor

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🚔 Policing Reform ⚖️ Biased Policing 🎯 Police Training 🔗 Criminal Justice Reform ✋ Use Of Force

A Life in Football

av Ian Wright • 2016

Most footballers are scouted as children. He was 21 and still playing Sunday league.

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🏴 English Football ⚽ Football Memoir 💪 Overcoming Rejection ✊ Racism In Sport 🐢 Late Bloomers

A Life in Football

Most footballers are scouted as children. He was 21 and still playing Sunday league.

av Ian Wright 2016 320 sidor

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🏴 English Football ⚽ Football Memoir 💪 Overcoming Rejection ✊ Racism In Sport 🐢 Late Bloomers

The Truth About Stories

av Thomas King • 2003

How colonial narratives invented 'the Indian' to justify erasure, and how Native stories fight back.

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🔴 Native Identity ✊ Storytelling As Resistance 🌌 Indigenous Cosmology 🗣️ Oral Tradition 🗑️ Cultural Erasure

The Truth About Stories

How colonial narratives invented 'the Indian' to justify erasure, and how Native stories fight back.

av Thomas King 2003 184 sidor

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🔴 Native Identity ✊ Storytelling As Resistance 🌌 Indigenous Cosmology 🗣️ Oral Tradition 🗑️ Cultural Erasure

A Quantum Life

av Hakeem Oluseyi • 2021

A crack addict hiding in Stanford labs. A newborn daughter. Solar telescopes and a second chance.

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🔭 Scientist Memoirs 🩹 Addiction And Recovery 📈 Upward Mobility 🎓 Black In Academia 🧪 Racism In Science

A Quantum Life

A crack addict hiding in Stanford labs. A newborn daughter. Solar telescopes and a second chance.

av Hakeem Oluseyi 2021 356 sidor

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🔭 Scientist Memoirs 🩹 Addiction And Recovery 📈 Upward Mobility 🎓 Black In Academia 🧪 Racism In Science

The Audacity of Hope

av Barack Obama • 2006

Two parties have turned Americans into enemies. One senator's argument that most of us are not.

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🇺🇸 American Politics 📖 Political Memoir ⚡ Political Polarization 🤝 Bipartisanship 🗣️ Race In America

The Audacity of Hope

Two parties have turned Americans into enemies. One senator's argument that most of us are not.

av Barack Obama 2006 320 sidor

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🇺🇸 American Politics 📖 Political Memoir ⚡ Political Polarization 🤝 Bipartisanship 🗣️ Race In America

Wandering Stars

av Tommy Orange • 2024

An 1864 massacre survivor. A boarding school runaway. A powwow dancer shot in Oakland. One family.

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🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 🩸 Inherited Trauma 🏫 Boarding School Assimilation 💊 Addiction And Recovery 🪶 Cultural Reclamation

Wandering Stars

An 1864 massacre survivor. A boarding school runaway. A powwow dancer shot in Oakland. One family.

av Tommy Orange 2024 315 sidor

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🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 🩸 Inherited Trauma 🏫 Boarding School Assimilation 💊 Addiction And Recovery 🪶 Cultural Reclamation

Feminism for the 99%

av Cinzia Arruzza • 2019

Mainstream feminism wants more women at the top. Anticapitalist feminism wants no top at all.

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✊ Anticapitalist Feminism 🧹 Social Reproduction 🩺 Crisis Of Care 💼 Liberal Feminism Critique 🌍 Anti-Imperialist Politics

Feminism for the 99%

Mainstream feminism wants more women at the top. Anticapitalist feminism wants no top at all.

av Cinzia Arruzza 2019 85 sidor

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✊ Anticapitalist Feminism 🧹 Social Reproduction 🩺 Crisis Of Care 💼 Liberal Feminism Critique 🌍 Anti-Imperialist Politics

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

av Jonathan Blitzer • 2024

Central American migration is not an invasion; it is the long shadow of American foreign policy.

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🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🌎 Central American History 🛂 Immigration Policy 🎯 Cold War Interventions 🚧 Border Militarization

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

Central American migration is not an invasion; it is the long shadow of American foreign policy.

av Jonathan Blitzer 2024 544 sidor

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🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🌎 Central American History 🛂 Immigration Policy 🎯 Cold War Interventions 🚧 Border Militarization

The Skin We're In

av Desmond Cole • 2020

A year of Black resistance that forced Canada to face the racism its politeness hides.

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🏛️ Systemic Racism 🍁 Canadian Politics 🇨🇦 Black Canadian Experience 🚨 Police Violence ✊🏾 Black Activism

The Skin We're In

A year of Black resistance that forced Canada to face the racism its politeness hides.

av Desmond Cole 2020 250 sidor

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🏛️ Systemic Racism 🍁 Canadian Politics 🇨🇦 Black Canadian Experience 🚨 Police Violence ✊🏾 Black Activism

White Women

av Regina Jackson • 2022

Niceness, silence, white feminism: how white women uphold racism without raising their voices.

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✋ White Accountability 🔍 White Feminism Critique 🎭 Performative Allyship 🤫 Racial Silence 🦸 White Saviorism

White Women

Niceness, silence, white feminism: how white women uphold racism without raising their voices.

av Regina Jackson 2022 224 sidor

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✋ White Accountability 🔍 White Feminism Critique 🎭 Performative Allyship 🤫 Racial Silence 🦸 White Saviorism

In Search of The Color Purple

av Salamishah Tillet • 2021

A forgotten grave, a banned novel, and the Black women's voices America tried to erase.

4.21

220

📚 Author Studies 🖋️ Black Women Writers 🌱 Womanist Thought ✊🏿 Black Feminism 🎨 Colorism

In Search of The Color Purple

A forgotten grave, a banned novel, and the Black women's voices America tried to erase.

av Salamishah Tillet 2021 223 sidor

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📚 Author Studies 🖋️ Black Women Writers 🌱 Womanist Thought ✊🏿 Black Feminism 🎨 Colorism

The Nazis

av Laurence Rees • 1997

The Third Reich was chaos masquerading as order, and its rise was never inevitable.

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🏴 Nazi Germany 🕯️ The Holocaust 👁️ Eyewitness History ⚔️ State Violence 🔗 Totalitarianism

The Nazis

The Third Reich was chaos masquerading as order, and its rise was never inevitable.

av Laurence Rees 1997 256 sidor

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🏴 Nazi Germany 🕯️ The Holocaust 👁️ Eyewitness History ⚔️ State Violence 🔗 Totalitarianism

Pryor Convictions

av Richard Pryor • 1995

Brothel childhood. Cocaine addiction. Self-immolation. Richard Pryor's life, before the punchline.

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 😢 Childhood Trauma 💊 Addiction And Recovery 🇺🇸 Race In America 🔥 Surviving Catastrophe

Pryor Convictions

Brothel childhood. Cocaine addiction. Self-immolation. Richard Pryor's life, before the punchline.

av Richard Pryor 1995 261 sidor

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 😢 Childhood Trauma 💊 Addiction And Recovery 🇺🇸 Race In America 🔥 Surviving Catastrophe

We're Not Broken

av Eric Garcia • 2021

Why autism talk must shift from cure to acceptance, from an autistic journalist inside the movement.

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🧠 Neurodiversity Movement ⚖️ Disability Justice 🗣️ Autism Advocacy 🔀 Intersectional Autism ✊ Self-Advocacy

We're Not Broken

Why autism talk must shift from cure to acceptance, from an autistic journalist inside the movement.

av Eric Garcia 2021 309 sidor

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🧠 Neurodiversity Movement ⚖️ Disability Justice 🗣️ Autism Advocacy 🔀 Intersectional Autism ✊ Self-Advocacy

Happy Land

av Dolen Perkins-Valdez • 2025

Summoned home, a real estate agent discovers the lost Black kingdom buried in her family's land.

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🏚️ Reconstruction-Era South 🌱 Family Land 🕰️ Dual Timeline 👩‍👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters 🔍 Family Secrets

Happy Land

Summoned home, a real estate agent discovers the lost Black kingdom buried in her family's land.

av Dolen Perkins-Valdez 2025 368 sidor

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🏚️ Reconstruction-Era South 🌱 Family Land 🕰️ Dual Timeline 👩‍👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters 🔍 Family Secrets

Race Marxism

av James Lindsay • 2022

Critical race theory is Marxism rebuilt around race, and its goal is not reform but revolution.

4.23

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🏛️ Critical Theory 🗳️ Racial Politics ☭ Marxism 🪪 Identity Politics 🔍 Postmodernism

Race Marxism

Critical race theory is Marxism rebuilt around race, and its goal is not reform but revolution.

av James Lindsay 2022 357 sidor

4.23

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🏛️ Critical Theory 🗳️ Racial Politics ☭ Marxism 🪪 Identity Politics 🔍 Postmodernism

Tyranny of the Minority

av Steven Levitsky • 2023

Electoral College, Senate bias, filibuster: three 18th-century relics now delivering minority rule.

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🏚️ Democratic Backsliding 🗳️ Electoral Reform 🏛️ Institutional Decay 🚫 Voter Suppression 🐍 Authoritarian Creep

Tyranny of the Minority

Electoral College, Senate bias, filibuster: three 18th-century relics now delivering minority rule.

av Steven Levitsky 2023 369 sidor

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🏚️ Democratic Backsliding 🗳️ Electoral Reform 🏛️ Institutional Decay 🚫 Voter Suppression 🐍 Authoritarian Creep

Conquests and Cultures

av Thomas Sowell • 1998

Geography blocked Africa, conquests lifted Britain, and human capital explains the gap.

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🌍 Comparative History 💰 Economic History 🧠 Human Capital 🏔️ Geographic Determinism 🔄 Cultural Diffusion

Conquests and Cultures

Geography blocked Africa, conquests lifted Britain, and human capital explains the gap.

av Thomas Sowell 1998 512 sidor

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🌍 Comparative History 💰 Economic History 🧠 Human Capital 🏔️ Geographic Determinism 🔄 Cultural Diffusion

Nisei Daughter

av Monica Itoi Sone • 1979

A Seattle girl's American childhood shatters when Pearl Harbor turns her family into the enemy.

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⛩️ Japanese American History 🧳 Wwii Incarceration 🎭 Cultural Duality 🚧 Racial Prejudice 🧬 Immigrant Identity

Nisei Daughter

A Seattle girl's American childhood shatters when Pearl Harbor turns her family into the enemy.

av Monica Itoi Sone 1979 256 sidor

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⛩️ Japanese American History 🧳 Wwii Incarceration 🎭 Cultural Duality 🚧 Racial Prejudice 🧬 Immigrant Identity

Real Americans

av Rachel Khong • 2024

Nick's DNA test reveals the father he never knew, whose genetic legacy upends his identity.

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🏠 Multigenerational Saga 👤 Absent Father 🔒 Family Secrets 💰 Class Divide 🧬 Genetic Engineering

Real Americans

Nick's DNA test reveals the father he never knew, whose genetic legacy upends his identity.

av Rachel Khong 2024 416 sidor

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🏠 Multigenerational Saga 👤 Absent Father 🔒 Family Secrets 💰 Class Divide 🧬 Genetic Engineering

The Beautiful Struggle

av Ta-Nehisi Coates • 2008

Between Black Panther discipline and Baltimore's street code, a boy fights to write his own story.

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🏙️ Urban Memoir 🖤 African American Memoir 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoirs ✊ Black Nationalism 🎤 Hip-Hop Culture

The Beautiful Struggle

Between Black Panther discipline and Baltimore's street code, a boy fights to write his own story.

av Ta-Nehisi Coates 2008 240 sidor

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🏙️ Urban Memoir 🖤 African American Memoir 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoirs ✊ Black Nationalism 🎤 Hip-Hop Culture

Nice Racism

av Robin DiAngelo • 2021

Progressive white people may be racial justice's biggest obstacle, and niceness is no defense.

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🤝 White Allyship ✊ Antiracism 👁️ Colorblind Racism 🛡️ White Defensiveness 📖 Critical Race Theory

Nice Racism

Progressive white people may be racial justice's biggest obstacle, and niceness is no defense.

av Robin DiAngelo 2021 220 sidor

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🤝 White Allyship ✊ Antiracism 👁️ Colorblind Racism 🛡️ White Defensiveness 📖 Critical Race Theory

Run

av Ann Patchett • 2007

A snowy night rescue reunites two adopted brothers with the birth mother they never knew.

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🏃 Adoption Reunion 🏠 Found Family 💔 Grief And Healing 🕊️ Maternal Sacrifice 🌆 Boston Setting

Run

A snowy night rescue reunites two adopted brothers with the birth mother they never knew.

av Ann Patchett 2007 295 sidor

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🏃 Adoption Reunion 🏠 Found Family 💔 Grief And Healing 🕊️ Maternal Sacrifice 🌆 Boston Setting

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts

av Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez • 2021

Tired of translating yourself for others? Here is the toolkit to reclaim your mind, language, anger.

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🤎 Woc Feminism 🧹 Decolonial Feminism 🧬 Generational Trauma 👔 Respectability Politics 🪶 Cultural Identity

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts

Tired of translating yourself for others? Here is the toolkit to reclaim your mind, language, anger.

av Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez 2021 272 sidor

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🤎 Woc Feminism 🧹 Decolonial Feminism 🧬 Generational Trauma 👔 Respectability Politics 🪶 Cultural Identity

A Cup of Water Under My Bed

av Daisy Hernández • 2014

A childhood translating for her parents gave her everything except a language for her bisexuality.

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✈️ Immigrant Memoir 🌈 Coming Out Stories 🗣️ Language And Identity 🇺🇸 Assimilation 💰 Class Consciousness

A Cup of Water Under My Bed

A childhood translating for her parents gave her everything except a language for her bisexuality.

av Daisy Hernández 2014 185 sidor

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✈️ Immigrant Memoir 🌈 Coming Out Stories 🗣️ Language And Identity 🇺🇸 Assimilation 💰 Class Consciousness

The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born

av Nancy Fraser • 2019

Progressive movements allied with finance, left working people behind, and the crisis isn't over.

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🏛️ Gramscian Analysis 💸 Neoliberalism Critique 🇺🇸 American Politics 🎭 Identity Politics ✊ Socialist Feminism

The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born

Progressive movements allied with finance, left working people behind, and the crisis isn't over.

av Nancy Fraser 2019 63 sidor

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🏛️ Gramscian Analysis 💸 Neoliberalism Critique 🇺🇸 American Politics 🎭 Identity Politics ✊ Socialist Feminism

The ANC Billionaires

av Pieter Du Toit • 2022

South Africa's peace made ANC insiders rich. 30 years later, the economic revolution hasn't begun.

3.91

142

🏛️ Post-Apartheid Transition 🎯 Elite Capture 🤝 Black Economic Empowerment 🔒 State Capture 📰 Investigative Journalism

The ANC Billionaires

South Africa's peace made ANC insiders rich. 30 years later, the economic revolution hasn't begun.

av Pieter Du Toit 2022 333 sidor

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142 betyg

🏛️ Post-Apartheid Transition 🎯 Elite Capture 🤝 Black Economic Empowerment 🔒 State Capture 📰 Investigative Journalism

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health

av Nathan Filer • 2019

A nurse turned journalist traces psychosis to its real roots: poverty, trauma, and racism.

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🔍 Psychiatric Critique 💔 Trauma And Psychosis 🏘️ Social Determinants ⚖️ Medical Racism 💊 Pharma Skepticism

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health

A nurse turned journalist traces psychosis to its real roots: poverty, trauma, and racism.

av Nathan Filer 2019

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🔍 Psychiatric Critique 💔 Trauma And Psychosis 🏘️ Social Determinants ⚖️ Medical Racism 💊 Pharma Skepticism

The Meaning of Mariah Carey

av Mariah Carey • 2020

To the world, a pop icon. To her music-mogul husband, a possession. Her story of escape.

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🌟 Celebrity Memoir 👑 Pop Stardom 🌍 Biracial Identity 🏚️ Family Dysfunction 🎨 Creative Control

The Meaning of Mariah Carey

To the world, a pop icon. To her music-mogul husband, a possession. Her story of escape.

av Mariah Carey 2020 349 sidor

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🌟 Celebrity Memoir 👑 Pop Stardom 🌍 Biracial Identity 🏚️ Family Dysfunction 🎨 Creative Control

Untitled

av Amani Al-Khatahtbeh • 2016

Post-9/11 America told her story for her. She built MuslimGirl.com to take it back.

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🗣️ Muslim Women's Voices 🕌 Islam In America 🏙️ Post-9/11 America 💻 Digital Activism 🌉 Hyphenated Identity

Untitled

Post-9/11 America told her story for her. She built MuslimGirl.com to take it back.

av Amani Al-Khatahtbeh 2016 144 sidor

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🗣️ Muslim Women's Voices 🕌 Islam In America 🏙️ Post-9/11 America 💻 Digital Activism 🌉 Hyphenated Identity

The Diversity Illusion

av Ed West • 2012

Three million newcomers, zero economic gain. The real cost: a society that stopped trusting.

4.04

226

🏛️ Immigration Policy 🇬🇧 British Politics 🤝 Social Capital 🧐 Multiculturalism Critique 📊 Demographic Change

The Diversity Illusion

Three million newcomers, zero economic gain. The real cost: a society that stopped trusting.

av Ed West 2012 288 sidor

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🏛️ Immigration Policy 🇬🇧 British Politics 🤝 Social Capital 🧐 Multiculturalism Critique 📊 Demographic Change

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

av Reni Eddo-Lodge • 2017

Britain's racism is structural, not personal. Why not seeing race protects the design.

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🔗 Structural Racism 🇬🇧 British Black Experience 🪞 White Privilege 🔀 Intersectional Feminism 🛠️ Anti-Racism Practice

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Britain's racism is structural, not personal. Why not seeing race protects the design.

av Reni Eddo-Lodge 2017 249 sidor

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🔗 Structural Racism 🇬🇧 British Black Experience 🪞 White Privilege 🔀 Intersectional Feminism 🛠️ Anti-Racism Practice

Long Walk to Freedom

av Nelson Mandela • 1994

After 27 years in prison, his first act of freedom was to shake his jailer's hand.

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📖 South African History ✊🏿 Anti-Apartheid Struggle ⛓️ Political Imprisonment ⚖️ Racial Justice 🕊️ Forgiveness And Reconciliation

Long Walk to Freedom

After 27 years in prison, his first act of freedom was to shake his jailer's hand.

av Nelson Mandela 1994 656 sidor

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📖 South African History ✊🏿 Anti-Apartheid Struggle ⛓️ Political Imprisonment ⚖️ Racial Justice 🕊️ Forgiveness And Reconciliation

Caste

av Isabel Wilkerson • 2020

America's deepest divide isn't race but caste, a hidden hierarchy four hundred years old.

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🏛️ Racial Hierarchy ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🚧 American Apartheid 😶 Dehumanization 🔺 Social Hierarchy

Caste

America's deepest divide isn't race but caste, a hidden hierarchy four hundred years old.

av Isabel Wilkerson 2020 456 sidor

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🏛️ Racial Hierarchy ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🚧 American Apartheid 😶 Dehumanization 🔺 Social Hierarchy

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

av Carmelo Anthony • 2021

Grief unnamed, a mother's open door, a blacktop sanctuary: surviving the projects before the NBA.

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🏀 Basketball Memoirs 🏢 Housing Projects ⚖️ Systemic Racism 👩‍👦 Single Mothers 🌆 Urban Coming Of Age

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

Grief unnamed, a mother's open door, a blacktop sanctuary: surviving the projects before the NBA.

av Carmelo Anthony 2021 208 sidor

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🏀 Basketball Memoirs 🏢 Housing Projects ⚖️ Systemic Racism 👩‍👦 Single Mothers 🌆 Urban Coming Of Age

The Mis-Education of the Negro

av Carter G. Woodson • 1933

America's most effective tool of racial control was never the police. It was the classroom.

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🏫 Black Education ✊ Racial Uplift ⛓️ Educational Oppression 🧠 Critical Consciousness 💰 Economic Self-Reliance

The Mis-Education of the Negro

America's most effective tool of racial control was never the police. It was the classroom.

av Carter G. Woodson 1933 162 sidor

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🏫 Black Education ✊ Racial Uplift ⛓️ Educational Oppression 🧠 Critical Consciousness 💰 Economic Self-Reliance

Code Dependent

av Madhumita Murgia • 2024

Behind every AI is an exploited, invisible workforce. A reporter traces the human supply chain.

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⚖️ Algorithmic Bias 🤖 Ai Ethics 👷 Digital Labor 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism 🛡️ Content Moderation

Code Dependent

Behind every AI is an exploited, invisible workforce. A reporter traces the human supply chain.

av Madhumita Murgia 2024 309 sidor

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⚖️ Algorithmic Bias 🤖 Ai Ethics 👷 Digital Labor 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism 🛡️ Content Moderation

Freedom is a Constant Struggle

av Angela Y. Davis • 2015

Ferguson and Palestine share a playbook of state violence. The resistance is building its own.

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🚫 Prison Abolition ✊🏾 Black Feminism 🌍 Global Solidarity 🔀 Intersectionality ⚠️ State Violence

Freedom is a Constant Struggle

Ferguson and Palestine share a playbook of state violence. The resistance is building its own.

av Angela Y. Davis 2015 158 sidor

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🚫 Prison Abolition ✊🏾 Black Feminism 🌍 Global Solidarity 🔀 Intersectionality ⚠️ State Violence

How to Argue With a Racist

av Adam Rutherford • 2020

How to shut down racist pseudoscience with real genetics: ancestry, athletics, and intelligence.

3.89

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📊 Population Genetics 🧬 Race And Genetics 🌳 Genetic Ancestry 🔍 Pseudoscience Criticism 🧪 Evolutionary Biology

How to Argue With a Racist

How to shut down racist pseudoscience with real genetics: ancestry, athletics, and intelligence.

av Adam Rutherford 2020 224 sidor

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📊 Population Genetics 🧬 Race And Genetics 🌳 Genetic Ancestry 🔍 Pseudoscience Criticism 🧪 Evolutionary Biology

Freedom Farmers

av Monica M. White • 2018

How Black farmers built cooperative freedom, from Reconstruction fields to Detroit’s urban farms.

4.36

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🌱 Black Agriculture 🥗 Food Sovereignty 🤝 Cooperative Economics 🏙️ Urban Farming 🫂 Mutual Aid

Freedom Farmers

How Black farmers built cooperative freedom, from Reconstruction fields to Detroit’s urban farms.

av Monica M. White 2018 189 sidor

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🌱 Black Agriculture 🥗 Food Sovereignty 🤝 Cooperative Economics 🏙️ Urban Farming 🫂 Mutual Aid

Methodology of the Oppressed

av Chela Sandoval • 2000

The West just discovered fragmentation. The oppressed call it home, and they have a manual.

4.15

408

🌍 Postcolonial Theory ✊🏽 Third World Feminism 🧠 Decolonizing Thought 🔍 Ideology Critique 📖 Semiotics And Power

Methodology of the Oppressed

The West just discovered fragmentation. The oppressed call it home, and they have a manual.

av Chela Sandoval 2000 232 sidor

4.15

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🌍 Postcolonial Theory ✊🏽 Third World Feminism 🧠 Decolonizing Thought 🔍 Ideology Critique 📖 Semiotics And Power

Fist Stick Knife Gun

av Geoffrey Canada • 1995

Respect was won with fists on Union Avenue. Then guns came and rewrote the rules for everyone.

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🏙️ Urban Violence 🧱 Street Culture 🌱 Youth Mentorship 🔫 Gun Violence 💊 Drug Trade

Fist Stick Knife Gun

Respect was won with fists on Union Avenue. Then guns came and rewrote the rules for everyone.

av Geoffrey Canada 1995 179 sidor

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🏙️ Urban Violence 🧱 Street Culture 🌱 Youth Mentorship 🔫 Gun Violence 💊 Drug Trade

Master Slave Husband Wife

av Ilyon Woo • 2023

Enslaved woman as white gentleman, husband as slave: a 1,000-mile escape in plain sight.

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🏃 Slave Escapes ⛓️‍💥 Abolitionist Movement 🎭 Racial Passing ⚖️ Fugitive Slave Law 🏛️ Antebellum America

Master Slave Husband Wife

Enslaved woman as white gentleman, husband as slave: a 1,000-mile escape in plain sight.

av Ilyon Woo 2023 416 sidor

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🏃 Slave Escapes ⛓️‍💥 Abolitionist Movement 🎭 Racial Passing ⚖️ Fugitive Slave Law 🏛️ Antebellum America

LE GONE DU CHABAA

av Azouz Begag • 1986

In a Lyon shantytown, a boy studies toward a future his traditional father cannot imagine.

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🌉 French-Algerian Identity 🏫 School As Salvation 💪 Poverty And Dignity 🏚️ Shantytown Life ⚡ Father Son Conflict

LE GONE DU CHABAA

In a Lyon shantytown, a boy studies toward a future his traditional father cannot imagine.

av Azouz Begag 1986

3.63

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🌉 French-Algerian Identity 🏫 School As Salvation 💪 Poverty And Dignity 🏚️ Shantytown Life ⚡ Father Son Conflict

Same Kind of Different as Me

av Ron Hall • 2006

An art dealer, a homeless man, and the woman who bound them together. Then cancer came.

4.20

92 000+

👥 Dual Memoir ⛪ Faith Testimony 🤝 Interracial Friendship 🏚️ Homelessness Narratives ⛓️ Modern-Day Slavery

Same Kind of Different as Me

An art dealer, a homeless man, and the woman who bound them together. Then cancer came.

av Ron Hall 2006 237 sidor

4.20

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👥 Dual Memoir ⛪ Faith Testimony 🤝 Interracial Friendship 🏚️ Homelessness Narratives ⛓️ Modern-Day Slavery

A More Beautiful and Terrible History

av Jeanne Theoharis • 2018

The civil rights story you know is a sanitized myth that hides an ongoing fight for justice.

4.32

500+

✊ Civil Rights Movement 🧹 Sanitized History 🏙️ Northern Racism 📰 Media Bias 🔥 Youth Activism

A More Beautiful and Terrible History

The civil rights story you know is a sanitized myth that hides an ongoing fight for justice.

av Jeanne Theoharis 2018 278 sidor

4.32

500+ betyg

✊ Civil Rights Movement 🧹 Sanitized History 🏙️ Northern Racism 📰 Media Bias 🔥 Youth Activism

Healing Resistance

av Kazu Haga • 2020

Nonviolence is harder than fighting back. The discipline for it, from inner work to reconciliation.

4.61

500+

✊ Nonviolent Resistance 🕊️ Restorative Justice 🙏 Spiritual Activism 🤝 Conflict Transformation 🗺️ Movement Strategy

Healing Resistance

Nonviolence is harder than fighting back. The discipline for it, from inner work to reconciliation.

av Kazu Haga 2020 297 sidor

4.61

500+ betyg

✊ Nonviolent Resistance 🕊️ Restorative Justice 🙏 Spiritual Activism 🤝 Conflict Transformation 🗺️ Movement Strategy

If Beale Street Could Talk

av James Baldwin • 1974

Pregnant, a young Black woman in 1970s Harlem battles to free her falsely accused fiancé.

4.27

84 000+

🖤 Black Love Story 🗣️ False Accusation ⛓️ Wrongful Arrest 👮 Police Brutality 💔 Love And Incarceration

If Beale Street Could Talk

Pregnant, a young Black woman in 1970s Harlem battles to free her falsely accused fiancé.

av James Baldwin 1974 197 sidor

4.27

84 000+ betyg

🖤 Black Love Story 🗣️ False Accusation ⛓️ Wrongful Arrest 👮 Police Brutality 💔 Love And Incarceration

The Heart of a Woman

av Maya Angelou • 2009

Marrying a South African freedom fighter took her from Harlem to Cairo, where love met its limits.

4.23

25 000+

🪧 Civil Rights Memoir 🎭 Art And Activism 👩‍👦 Single Motherhood 🌍 Pan-African Movement ✈️ Expat Life In Africa

The Heart of a Woman

Marrying a South African freedom fighter took her from Harlem to Cairo, where love met its limits.

av Maya Angelou 2009 352 sidor

4.23

25 000+ betyg

🪧 Civil Rights Memoir 🎭 Art And Activism 👩‍👦 Single Motherhood 🌍 Pan-African Movement ✈️ Expat Life In Africa

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