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

Never Far from Home

av Bruce Jackson • 2023

Amsterdam Houses to Microsoft: a Black lawyer's climb through music, race, and two worlds.

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🪜 Upward Mobility 🚧 Racial Barriers 🎓 First-Gen Professionals 💻 Diversity In Tech 🎵 Music Industry

Never Far from Home

Amsterdam Houses to Microsoft: a Black lawyer's climb through music, race, and two worlds.

av Bruce Jackson 2023 272 sidor

4.12

257 betyg

🪜 Upward Mobility 🚧 Racial Barriers 🎓 First-Gen Professionals 💻 Diversity In Tech 🎵 Music Industry

Pixel Flesh

av Ellen Atlanta • 2024

Beauty culture promised freedom and delivered algorithms. The empowerment was always a sales pitch.

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💄 Beauty Culture ✊ Body Politics 📱 Social Media Harm 🍽️ Diet Culture Critique 🌍 Racialized Beauty

Pixel Flesh

Beauty culture promised freedom and delivered algorithms. The empowerment was always a sales pitch.

av Ellen Atlanta 2024 384 sidor

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💄 Beauty Culture ✊ Body Politics 📱 Social Media Harm 🍽️ Diet Culture Critique 🌍 Racialized Beauty

Jew[ish]

av Matt Greene • 2020

His name got the triple parentheses. He set out to find what being Jew[ish] means today.

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✡️ Jewish Identity 🕎 Modern Judaism ⚠️ Anti-Semitism 🕯️ Holocaust Memory 😂 Jewish Humor

Jew[ish]

His name got the triple parentheses. He set out to find what being Jew[ish] means today.

av Matt Greene 2020 199 sidor

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✡️ Jewish Identity 🕎 Modern Judaism ⚠️ Anti-Semitism 🕯️ Holocaust Memory 😂 Jewish Humor

One Person, No Vote

av Carol Anderson • 2018

Voter suppression survived the Voting Rights Act: quieter, more surgical, and decisive in 2016.

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🗳️ Voter Suppression 🗺️ Gerrymandering 🧱 Structural Racism ⚖️ Civil Rights Law 📜 Election Law

One Person, No Vote

Voter suppression survived the Voting Rights Act: quieter, more surgical, and decisive in 2016.

av Carol Anderson 2018 288 sidor

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🗳️ Voter Suppression 🗺️ Gerrymandering 🧱 Structural Racism ⚖️ Civil Rights Law 📜 Election Law

Unshrinking

av Kate Manne • 2024

Dieting fails almost everyone; the real threat to fat people is stigma, not fat itself.

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🧡 Fat Acceptance 🍽️ Diet Culture ⚖️ Weight Stigma 🔗 Intersectionality 🗣️ Body Politics

Unshrinking

Dieting fails almost everyone; the real threat to fat people is stigma, not fat itself.

av Kate Manne 2024 320 sidor

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🧡 Fat Acceptance 🍽️ Diet Culture ⚖️ Weight Stigma 🔗 Intersectionality 🗣️ Body Politics

Manifesting Justice

av Valena E. Beety • 2022

Wrongful convictions target women and queer people differently. A legal method to fight back.

4.33

126

⚖️ Wrongful Convictions 🔄 Criminal Justice Reform 🫂 Restorative Justice 🔗 Mass Incarceration 🕊️ Innocence Movement

Manifesting Justice

Wrongful convictions target women and queer people differently. A legal method to fight back.

av Valena E. Beety 2022 402 sidor

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126 betyg

⚖️ Wrongful Convictions 🔄 Criminal Justice Reform 🫂 Restorative Justice 🔗 Mass Incarceration 🕊️ Innocence Movement

The Years That Matter Most

av Paul Tough • 2019

Getting into an elite college depends more on your parents’ income than your SAT score.

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🎓 Higher Education 📝 College Admissions 📈 Social Mobility ⚖️ Educational Inequality 🏛️ Meritocracy Critique

The Years That Matter Most

Getting into an elite college depends more on your parents’ income than your SAT score.

av Paul Tough 2019 400 sidor

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🎓 Higher Education 📝 College Admissions 📈 Social Mobility ⚖️ Educational Inequality 🏛️ Meritocracy Critique

I Don't Want to Die Poor

av Michael Arceneaux • 2020

Student debt trapped him. Being Black and gay meant the escape routes were already closed.

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💰 Student Debt 🏚️ Poverty Memoirs 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Black Identity 📝 Essay Collections 🧬 Generational Trauma

I Don't Want to Die Poor

Student debt trapped him. Being Black and gay meant the escape routes were already closed.

av Michael Arceneaux 2020 240 sidor

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💰 Student Debt 🏚️ Poverty Memoirs 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Black Identity 📝 Essay Collections 🧬 Generational Trauma

A World Without Police

av Geo Maher • 2021

Police reform fails by design. The alternative is not fewer cops but stronger communities.

3.97

329

🛑 Police Abolition 🔗 Systemic Racism 🏘️ Community Safety 🤝 Restorative Justice 🤲 Mutual Aid

A World Without Police

Police reform fails by design. The alternative is not fewer cops but stronger communities.

av Geo Maher 2021 288 sidor

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329 betyg

🛑 Police Abolition 🔗 Systemic Racism 🏘️ Community Safety 🤝 Restorative Justice 🤲 Mutual Aid

Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

av Beverly Daniel Tatum • 1997

The cafeteria self-sorting isn't a problem to fix. It's a mirror of how racial identity forms.

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🧬 Racial Identity 📊 Systemic Racism 👤 White Privilege 💬 Cross-Racial Dialogue 👶 Early Racial Awareness

Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

The cafeteria self-sorting isn't a problem to fix. It's a mirror of how racial identity forms.

av Beverly Daniel Tatum 1997 294 sidor

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🧬 Racial Identity 📊 Systemic Racism 👤 White Privilege 💬 Cross-Racial Dialogue 👶 Early Racial Awareness

We Are the Change We Seek

av E.J. Dionne Jr. • 2017

The speeches that carried a presidency: how rhetoric meets crisis and race in a divided country.

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🏛️ Presidential Rhetoric 🎙️ Political Oratory ⚖️ Racial Justice 🗳️ Civic Engagement 🌹 Progressive Politics

We Are the Change We Seek

The speeches that carried a presidency: how rhetoric meets crisis and race in a divided country.

av E.J. Dionne Jr. 2017 369 sidor

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🏛️ Presidential Rhetoric 🎙️ Political Oratory ⚖️ Racial Justice 🗳️ Civic Engagement 🌹 Progressive Politics

I'm Still Here

av Austin Channing Brown • 2018

Growing up Black in white America means learning to manage everyone else's feelings before your own.

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🌐 Everyday Racism 🧭 Navigating Whiteness 🔥 Righteous Anger 🎭 Performative Allyship 💪🏾 Black Resilience

I'm Still Here

Growing up Black in white America means learning to manage everyone else's feelings before your own.

av Austin Channing Brown 2018 185 sidor

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🌐 Everyday Racism 🧭 Navigating Whiteness 🔥 Righteous Anger 🎭 Performative Allyship 💪🏾 Black Resilience

Jesus Land

av Julia Scheeres • 2005

A Christian reform school in the tropics. A white girl, her Black brother, one escape plan.

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⛪ Religious Abuse 🔒 Troubled Teen Industry 🏠 Interracial Adoption 👫 Sibling Bonds 🪞 Racial Identity

Jesus Land

A Christian reform school in the tropics. A white girl, her Black brother, one escape plan.

av Julia Scheeres 2005 384 sidor

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⛪ Religious Abuse 🔒 Troubled Teen Industry 🏠 Interracial Adoption 👫 Sibling Bonds 🪞 Racial Identity

Wench

av Dolen Perkins-Valdez • 2010

An enslaved woman at a free-state resort must choose: her friend's freedom or her children's safety.

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🏛️ Antebellum South 📜 Neo-Slave Narrative 🤝 Found Sisterhood ⛓️ Enslaved Concubinage 🤱 Enslaved Motherhood

Wench

An enslaved woman at a free-state resort must choose: her friend's freedom or her children's safety.

av Dolen Perkins-Valdez 2010 290 sidor

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🏛️ Antebellum South 📜 Neo-Slave Narrative 🤝 Found Sisterhood ⛓️ Enslaved Concubinage 🤱 Enslaved Motherhood

The Message

av Ta-Nehisi Coates • 2024

He built a reparations model on Israel. Visiting Palestine exposed the victims his blueprint erased.

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🇵🇸 Palestinian Occupation 🏚️ Settler Colonialism 👻 Collective Memory ⚖️ Reparations Debate 📚 Critical Pedagogy

The Message

He built a reparations model on Israel. Visiting Palestine exposed the victims his blueprint erased.

av Ta-Nehisi Coates 2024 232 sidor

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🇵🇸 Palestinian Occupation 🏚️ Settler Colonialism 👻 Collective Memory ⚖️ Reparations Debate 📚 Critical Pedagogy

Sugar

av James Walvin • 2017

The Atlantic slave trade and the global obesity crisis share a single culprit.

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🧱 Commodity Histories 🌾 Colonial Agriculture ⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism 🍬 Sugar Industry 🥤 Soda Industry

Sugar

The Atlantic slave trade and the global obesity crisis share a single culprit.

av James Walvin 2017 352 sidor

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🧱 Commodity Histories 🌾 Colonial Agriculture ⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism 🍬 Sugar Industry 🥤 Soda Industry

Choice Theory

av William Glasser • 1999

How the frontier let America flee racism and inequality, until the wall shut the last exit.

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🇺🇸 American History 🏔️ Frontier Myth 🏹 Settler Colonialism 💰 Racial Capitalism ✨ American Exceptionalism

Choice Theory

How the frontier let America flee racism and inequality, until the wall shut the last exit.

av William Glasser 1999 368 sidor

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🇺🇸 American History 🏔️ Frontier Myth 🏹 Settler Colonialism 💰 Racial Capitalism ✨ American Exceptionalism

Shout, Sister, Shout!

av Gayle Wald • 2007

The godmother of rock and roll played gospel guitar. Her grave stayed unmarked for decades.

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356

⛪ Gospel Music 🎸 Rock Origins 🌉 Crossover Artists ☯️ Sacred And Secular 🖤 Black Women Musicians

Shout, Sister, Shout!

The godmother of rock and roll played gospel guitar. Her grave stayed unmarked for decades.

av Gayle Wald 2007 264 sidor

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⛪ Gospel Music 🎸 Rock Origins 🌉 Crossover Artists ☯️ Sacred And Secular 🖤 Black Women Musicians

Awakening Together

av Larry Yang • 2017

True mindfulness faces outward: why awakening is collective work, and sitting alone is never enough.

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🪷 Engaged Buddhism 🌍 Collective Liberation 🏳️ Inclusive Buddhism ✊ Mindful Activism 🧘 Mindful Leadership

Awakening Together

True mindfulness faces outward: why awakening is collective work, and sitting alone is never enough.

av Larry Yang 2017 321 sidor

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164 betyg

🪷 Engaged Buddhism 🌍 Collective Liberation 🏳️ Inclusive Buddhism ✊ Mindful Activism 🧘 Mindful Leadership

Where White Men Fear to Tread

av Russell Means • 1995

How a California street kid reclaimed his Lakota identity and led the occupation of Mount Rushmore.

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🪶 Lakota Culture ✊ Indigenous Activism 🏫 Boarding School Legacy 🌱 Cultural Reclamation 📜 Treaty Rights

Where White Men Fear to Tread

How a California street kid reclaimed his Lakota identity and led the occupation of Mount Rushmore.

av Russell Means 1995 624 sidor

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🪶 Lakota Culture ✊ Indigenous Activism 🏫 Boarding School Legacy 🌱 Cultural Reclamation 📜 Treaty Rights

Good Girl

av Aria Aber • 2025

Grieving her mother, an Afghan-German woman spirals through Berlin clubs and a toxic affair.

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💔 Toxic Older Lover 🕯️ Motherless Daughter 🌍 Immigrant Daughter 🌈 Queer Awakening 🌀 Self-Destructive Spiral

Good Girl

Grieving her mother, an Afghan-German woman spirals through Berlin clubs and a toxic affair.

av Aria Aber 2025 368 sidor

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💔 Toxic Older Lover 🕯️ Motherless Daughter 🌍 Immigrant Daughter 🌈 Queer Awakening 🌀 Self-Destructive Spiral

Obama

av David Mendell • 2007

A Chicago organizer's cautious climb: from Harvard Law to the 2004 speech that made him a star.

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🏛️ American Politics 🚀 Political Rise 🌍 Biracial Identity 🏘️ Community Organizing ⚖️ Race And Politics

Obama

A Chicago organizer's cautious climb: from Harvard Law to the 2004 speech that made him a star.

av David Mendell 2007 448 sidor

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🏛️ American Politics 🚀 Political Rise 🌍 Biracial Identity 🏘️ Community Organizing ⚖️ Race And Politics

A Raisin in the Sun

av Lorraine Hansberry • 2002

An insurance check pits a Black family's dreams against each other in a cramped Chicago apartment.

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🏠 Domestic Drama 👵 Generational Conflict 💔 Thwarted Dreams 👩‍👧‍👦 Matriarchal Family 🚫 Housing Segregation

A Raisin in the Sun

An insurance check pits a Black family's dreams against each other in a cramped Chicago apartment.

av Lorraine Hansberry 2002 162 sidor

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🏠 Domestic Drama 👵 Generational Conflict 💔 Thwarted Dreams 👩‍👧‍👦 Matriarchal Family 🚫 Housing Segregation

The Street

av Ann Petry • 1946

Harlem, 1940s. A single mother rents a room. The super watches. The street waits.

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🏙️ Social Realism 🖤 Black Womanhood ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🧹 Domestic Work 🎷 1940s Harlem

The Street

Harlem, 1940s. A single mother rents a room. The super watches. The street waits.

av Ann Petry 1946 435 sidor

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🏙️ Social Realism 🖤 Black Womanhood ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🧹 Domestic Work 🎷 1940s Harlem

Allow Me to Retort

av Elie Mystal • 2022

The Constitution isn't sacred. It was built for white power and still works as designed.

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🏛️ Constitutional Law 📜 Originalism Critique ⛓️ Structural Racism 👮 Policing And Race 🗳️ Voting Rights

Allow Me to Retort

The Constitution isn't sacred. It was built for white power and still works as designed.

av Elie Mystal 2022 270 sidor

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🏛️ Constitutional Law 📜 Originalism Critique ⛓️ Structural Racism 👮 Policing And Race 🗳️ Voting Rights

Berättelsen om Frederick Douglass liv, en amerikansk slav

av Frederick Douglass • 2004

A former slave's firsthand account of how literacy unlocked his escape from bondage.

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📜 Slave Narratives ⛓️ American Slavery 🔓 Self-Emancipation 📚 Literacy And Freedom ✊ Abolitionist Literature

Berättelsen om Frederick Douglass liv, en amerikansk slav

A former slave's firsthand account of how literacy unlocked his escape from bondage.

av Frederick Douglass 2004 158 sidor

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📜 Slave Narratives ⛓️ American Slavery 🔓 Self-Emancipation 📚 Literacy And Freedom ✊ Abolitionist Literature

Urban Apologetics

av Eric Mason • 2021

Five spiritual movements competing for the Black community, and how the gospel answers each one.

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🛡️ Christian Apologetics ✝️ African American Christianity 🏙️ Urban Ministry ⚔️ Spiritual Warfare 📖 Biblical Literacy

Urban Apologetics

Five spiritual movements competing for the Black community, and how the gospel answers each one.

av Eric Mason 2021 290 sidor

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337 betyg

🛡️ Christian Apologetics ✝️ African American Christianity 🏙️ Urban Ministry ⚔️ Spiritual Warfare 📖 Biblical Literacy

Gå och sätt ut en väktare

av Harper Lee • 2015

Home from New York, a young woman finds her father, her moral hero, sitting with segregationists.

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🖋️ Southern Literary Fiction 🗳️ Civil Rights Era 🏛️ Fallen Idol 🔗 Generational Divide 👨‍👧 Fathers And Daughters

Gå och sätt ut en väktare

Home from New York, a young woman finds her father, her moral hero, sitting with segregationists.

av Harper Lee 2015 7 sidor

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🖋️ Southern Literary Fiction 🗳️ Civil Rights Era 🏛️ Fallen Idol 🔗 Generational Divide 👨‍👧 Fathers And Daughters

Men Without Work

av Nicholas Eberstadt • 2016

Seven million prime-age men have quit the workforce entirely. The problem isn't a lack of jobs.

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🏭 Labor Economics 📊 Workforce Participation 🏛️ Welfare Reform 🔗 Mass Incarceration 🚹 Male Identity Crisis

Men Without Work

Seven million prime-age men have quit the workforce entirely. The problem isn't a lack of jobs.

av Nicholas Eberstadt 2016 152 sidor

3.41

500+ betyg

🏭 Labor Economics 📊 Workforce Participation 🏛️ Welfare Reform 🔗 Mass Incarceration 🚹 Male Identity Crisis

Punch Me Up To The Gods

av Brian Broome • 2021

His father's lessons were fists. Pittsburgh's gay bars taught him a different kind of blow.

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🖤 Black Masculinity 🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 🧨 Toxic Masculinity 🪞 Internalized Racism 💊 Substance Abuse Recovery

Punch Me Up To The Gods

His father's lessons were fists. Pittsburgh's gay bars taught him a different kind of blow.

av Brian Broome 2021 272 sidor

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🖤 Black Masculinity 🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 🧨 Toxic Masculinity 🪞 Internalized Racism 💊 Substance Abuse Recovery

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem

av Kliph Nesteroff • 2021

From Wild West exploitation to viral sketches: how Native comedians turned erasure into an art form.

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🪶 Native American History 🎭 Comedy History ✊ Cultural Reclamation 🎬 Media Stereotypes 💪 Humor As Resistance

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem

From Wild West exploitation to viral sketches: how Native comedians turned erasure into an art form.

av Kliph Nesteroff 2021 319 sidor

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🪶 Native American History 🎭 Comedy History ✊ Cultural Reclamation 🎬 Media Stereotypes 💪 Humor As Resistance

Colonize This!

av Bushra Rehman • 2002

Mainstream feminism left out women of color. This generation explains how, and what comes next.

4.20

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🔀 Intersectional Feminism ✊🏽 Women Of Color Feminism 📚 Feminist Anthologies 🪪 Racial Identity 🧭 Cultural Navigation

Colonize This!

Mainstream feminism left out women of color. This generation explains how, and what comes next.

av Bushra Rehman 2002 432 sidor

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🔀 Intersectional Feminism ✊🏽 Women Of Color Feminism 📚 Feminist Anthologies 🪪 Racial Identity 🧭 Cultural Navigation

From Here to Equality

av William A. Darity Jr. • 2020

A ten-to-one wealth gap, built by slavery and Jim Crow. The economic argument for reparations.

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💸 Racial Wealth Gap ⚖️ Reparations Debate 🔗 Systemic Racism 📊 Wealth Inequality 📜 Black Economic History

From Here to Equality

A ten-to-one wealth gap, built by slavery and Jim Crow. The economic argument for reparations.

av William A. Darity Jr. 2020 424 sidor

4.38

500+ betyg

💸 Racial Wealth Gap ⚖️ Reparations Debate 🔗 Systemic Racism 📊 Wealth Inequality 📜 Black Economic History

Jews Don't Count

av David Baddiel • 2021

When progressives list the oppressed, Jews get left off. A progressive insider asks why.

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🧩 Progressive Blind Spots 💬 Anti-Semitism Debate 🎬 Jewish Representation 💔 Selective Empathy 📺 Media Criticism

Jews Don't Count

When progressives list the oppressed, Jews get left off. A progressive insider asks why.

av David Baddiel 2021 144 sidor

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🧩 Progressive Blind Spots 💬 Anti-Semitism Debate 🎬 Jewish Representation 💔 Selective Empathy 📺 Media Criticism

Less Than Human

av David Livingstone Smith • 2011

Your brain can reclassify a human group as a nonhuman species. That shift makes genocide possible.

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🐀 Dehumanization 💀 Genocide Studies 🧠 Moral Psychology 🐺 Tribalism 👤 Othering

Less Than Human

Your brain can reclassify a human group as a nonhuman species. That shift makes genocide possible.

av David Livingstone Smith 2011 336 sidor

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🐀 Dehumanization 💀 Genocide Studies 🧠 Moral Psychology 🐺 Tribalism 👤 Othering

Wilmington's Lie

av David Zucchino • 2020

Before Jim Crow there was an 1898 coup that erased a Southern city's black leadership.

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💀 White Supremacy 🩸 Racial Violence 🏛️ Reconstruction Era 📰 Yellow Journalism 🗳️ Voter Suppression

Wilmington's Lie

Before Jim Crow there was an 1898 coup that erased a Southern city's black leadership.

av David Zucchino 2020 426 sidor

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💀 White Supremacy 🩸 Racial Violence 🏛️ Reconstruction Era 📰 Yellow Journalism 🗳️ Voter Suppression

Long Walk to Freedom - Volume 2

av Nelson Mandela • 2003

Twenty-seven years in prison. Then he became president of the country that put him there.

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🏴 Apartheid Resistance 🔗 Political Imprisonment 🇿🇦 South African History ✍️ Prison Memoirs 🌍 Anti-Colonial Struggle

Long Walk to Freedom - Volume 2

Twenty-seven years in prison. Then he became president of the country that put him there.

av Nelson Mandela 2003 450 sidor

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🏴 Apartheid Resistance 🔗 Political Imprisonment 🇿🇦 South African History ✍️ Prison Memoirs 🌍 Anti-Colonial Struggle

The 9.9 Percent

av Matthew Stewart • 2021

The one percent took the wealth. The class beneath them supplied the alibis.

3.67

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🏦 Wealth Inequality 🇺🇸 American Class System 🎭 Meritocracy Critique 🏛️ Elite Complicity 🏘️ Housing Segregation

The 9.9 Percent

The one percent took the wealth. The class beneath them supplied the alibis.

av Matthew Stewart 2021 352 sidor

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413 betyg

🏦 Wealth Inequality 🇺🇸 American Class System 🎭 Meritocracy Critique 🏛️ Elite Complicity 🏘️ Housing Segregation

The Myth of Equality

av Ken Wytsma • 2017

Racism never left; it learned to hide in plain sight, and churches were complicit.

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⚖️ Racial Justice 🔗 Systemic Racism 🧠 Implicit Bias 👁️ White Privilege ⛪ White Evangelicals

The Myth of Equality

Racism never left; it learned to hide in plain sight, and churches were complicit.

av Ken Wytsma 2017 232 sidor

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⚖️ Racial Justice 🔗 Systemic Racism 🧠 Implicit Bias 👁️ White Privilege ⛪ White Evangelicals

Compassion (&) Conviction

av Justin Giboney • 2020

The biggest lie in Christian politics is that you must choose between love and truth.

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🗳️ Faith And Politics 📖 Political Theology ⛪ Church And State ⚖️ Biblical Justice 🤝 Racial Reconciliation

Compassion (&) Conviction

The biggest lie in Christian politics is that you must choose between love and truth.

av Justin Giboney 2020 147 sidor

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🗳️ Faith And Politics 📖 Political Theology ⛪ Church And State ⚖️ Biblical Justice 🤝 Racial Reconciliation

Mask Off

av J.J. Bola • 2019

The biggest killer of men under 45 is not a disease. It is a script.

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🧨 Toxic Masculinity 🏛️ Patriarchy Critique 💔 Male Vulnerability 🧠 Men's Mental Health ⚠️ Rape Culture

Mask Off

The biggest killer of men under 45 is not a disease. It is a script.

av J.J. Bola 2019 128 sidor

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🧨 Toxic Masculinity 🏛️ Patriarchy Critique 💔 Male Vulnerability 🧠 Men's Mental Health ⚠️ Rape Culture

The End of Policing

av Alex S. Vitale • 2017

What if the police exist not to protect you but to manage inequality?

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🛑 Police Abolition 🔗 Mass Incarceration 📖 School Criminalization 💊 War On Drugs 🚔 Aggressive Policing

The End of Policing

What if the police exist not to protect you but to manage inequality?

av Alex S. Vitale 2017 272 sidor

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🛑 Police Abolition 🔗 Mass Incarceration 📖 School Criminalization 💊 War On Drugs 🚔 Aggressive Policing

A Colony in a Nation

av Christopher L. Hayes • 2017

Slave patrols built American policing. It still treats poor neighborhoods as occupied territory.

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⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform 🔗 Mass Incarceration 🧱 Structural Racism 🏛️ Dual Justice System 🚔 Order Policing

A Colony in a Nation

Slave patrols built American policing. It still treats poor neighborhoods as occupied territory.

av Christopher L. Hayes 2017 256 sidor

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⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform 🔗 Mass Incarceration 🧱 Structural Racism 🏛️ Dual Justice System 🚔 Order Policing

People Like Us

av Jason Mott • 2025

A grieving Black novelist accepts exile in Europe. The violence he fled is waiting.

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🪞 Metafictional Novel 🌍 Diaspora Fiction 💔 Parental Grief 👥 Doppelganger Threat 🕯️ Surreal Grief

People Like Us

A grieving Black novelist accepts exile in Europe. The violence he fled is waiting.

av Jason Mott 2025 288 sidor

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🪞 Metafictional Novel 🌍 Diaspora Fiction 💔 Parental Grief 👥 Doppelganger Threat 🕯️ Surreal Grief

Racism as Zoological Witchcraft

av Aph Ko • 2019

Racism is a ritual of consumption that devours animal and human bodies. Here's the exit strategy.

4.48

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⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🐾 Animal Studies 🧬 Human Animal Binary 🥬 Veganism And Race 🌑 Afro-Pessimism

Racism as Zoological Witchcraft

Racism is a ritual of consumption that devours animal and human bodies. Here's the exit strategy.

av Aph Ko 2019 168 sidor

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⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🐾 Animal Studies 🧬 Human Animal Binary 🥬 Veganism And Race 🌑 Afro-Pessimism

Timelines from Black History

av D.K. Publishing • 2021

Black history stretches from Lucy to the Year of Africa. This visual timeline connects the dots.

4.39

157

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