18 Books like Ghetto

The Origins of the Urban Crisis

by Thomas J. Sugrue • 1996

Detroit collapsed from job loss and housing segregation decades before the 1967 riot finished it.

4.24

2k+

🏙️ Urban History ⚖️ Racial Inequality 🏭 Deindustrialization

The Origins of the Urban Crisis 97%

Detroit collapsed from job loss and housing segregation decades before the 1967 riot finished it.

by Thomas J. Sugrue 1996

4.24

2k+ ratings

🏙️ Urban History ⚖️ Racial Inequality 🏭 Deindustrialization

The Color of Law

by Richard Rothstein • 2017

Federal policy, not private prejudice, segregated America. The proof is in the mortgage manuals.

4.44

47k+

🏘️ Residential Segregation 🔴 Redlining 🏛️ Housing Policy

The Color of Law 97%

Federal policy, not private prejudice, segregated America. The proof is in the mortgage manuals.

by Richard Rothstein 2017

4.44

47k+ ratings

🏘️ Residential Segregation 🔴 Redlining 🏛️ Housing Policy

The Warmth of Other Suns

by Isabel Wilkerson • 2010

Three lives: a sharecropper, a picker, a surgeon. Their flight from the South rewired America.

4.48

119k+

🚂 Great Migration ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🏙️ Urban History

The Warmth of Other Suns 95%

Three lives: a sharecropper, a picker, a surgeon. Their flight from the South rewired America.

by Isabel Wilkerson 2010

4.48

119k+ ratings

🚂 Great Migration ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🏙️ Urban History

Evicted

by Matthew Desmond • 2016

Poverty isn't the cause of eviction. Eviction is the cause of poverty, and the market profits.

4.47

115k+

🏙️ Urban Poverty 🏚️ Housing Insecurity ✊ Racial Inequality

Evicted 95%

Poverty isn't the cause of eviction. Eviction is the cause of poverty, and the market profits.

by Matthew Desmond 2016

4.47

115k+ ratings

🏙️ Urban Poverty 🏚️ Housing Insecurity ✊ Racial Inequality

The Color of Money

by Mehrsa Baradaran • 2017

Why Black-owned banks, born from exclusion, could never close the gap they were meant to fix.

4.47

2k+

🏦 Racial Wealth Gap 🏛️ Banking History ⚖️ Structural Inequality

The Color of Money 95%

Why Black-owned banks, born from exclusion, could never close the gap they were meant to fix.

by Mehrsa Baradaran 2017

4.47

2k+ ratings

🏦 Racial Wealth Gap 🏛️ Banking History ⚖️ Structural Inequality

How to Kill a City

by Peter Moskowitz • 2017

Four cities, one playbook: policy and profit, not hipsters, push out the poor and replace them.

4.07

4k+

🏗️ Gentrification 🏠 Housing Policy 🧱 Racial Capitalism

How to Kill a City 95%

Four cities, one playbook: policy and profit, not hipsters, push out the poor and replace them.

by Peter Moskowitz 2017

4.07

4k+ ratings

🏗️ Gentrification 🏠 Housing Policy 🧱 Racial Capitalism

White Rage

by Carol Anderson • 2016

Every time Black Americans advance, a calculated policy backlash rolls it back.

4.46

15k+

🌍 African American History 🔥 Racial Backlash 🏗️ Reconstruction

White Rage 94%

Every time Black Americans advance, a calculated policy backlash rolls it back.

by Carol Anderson 2016

4.46

15k+ ratings

🌍 African American History 🔥 Racial Backlash 🏗️ Reconstruction

Poverty, by America

by Matthew Desmond • 2023

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

4.27

64k+

🏚️ Housing Exploitation 🛠️ Labor Exploitation 💰 Affluent Welfare

Poverty, by America 94%

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

by Matthew Desmond 2023

4.27

64k+ ratings

🏚️ Housing Exploitation 🛠️ Labor Exploitation 💰 Affluent Welfare

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor • 2016

Police violence won't end with reform. The problem is the economic system behind the badge.

4.47

2k+

🧱 Structural Racism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 👮🏿 Police Violence

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation Summary

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation 94%

Police violence won't end with reform. The problem is the economic system behind the badge.

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 2016

4.47

2k+ ratings

🧱 Structural Racism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 👮🏿 Police Violence

The Black History of the White House

by Clarence Lusane • 2011

Enslaved laborers built the White House. The racial reckoning inside its walls has never stopped.

4.15

434

🏛️ White House History ⛓️ Slavery And Resistance 🚋 Jim Crow Era

The Black History of the White House Summary

The Black History of the White House 94%

Enslaved laborers built the White House. The racial reckoning inside its walls has never stopped.

by Clarence Lusane 2011

4.15

434 ratings

🏛️ White House History ⛓️ Slavery And Resistance 🚋 Jim Crow Era

The Injustice of Place

by Kathryn J. Edin • 2023

America's poorest places were deliberate: they were stripped for profit, and the design persists.

4.16

692

🗺️ Internal Colonialism 📍 Spatial Inequality ⛏️ Resource Extraction

The Injustice of Place 94%

America's poorest places were deliberate: they were stripped for profit, and the design persists.

by Kathryn J. Edin 2023

4.16

692 ratings

🗺️ Internal Colonialism 📍 Spatial Inequality ⛏️ Resource Extraction

We Are Not Yet Equal

by Carol Anderson • 2018

Every Black American victory was met with a legal counterattack designed to undo it.

4.40

798

⚖ Systemic Racism 📚 African American History 🔄 Backlash Politics

We Are Not Yet Equal 94%

Every Black American victory was met with a legal counterattack designed to undo it.

by Carol Anderson 2018

4.40

798 ratings

⚖ Systemic Racism 📚 African American History 🔄 Backlash Politics

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

by Thomas Sowell • 2005

Liberals protect a dysfunctional culture that black communities learned from white Southerners.

4.37

10k+

⚖️ Racial Inequality 🌍 Cultural Persistence 🗣️ Victimhood Culture

Black Rednecks and White Liberals Summary

Black Rednecks and White Liberals 94%

Liberals protect a dysfunctional culture that black communities learned from white Southerners.

by Thomas Sowell 2005

4.37

10k+ ratings

⚖️ Racial Inequality 🌍 Cultural Persistence 🗣️ Victimhood Culture

A Renegade History of the United States

by Thaddeus Russell • 2010

America's founders feared pleasure. Its drunkards, prostitutes, and gangsters made freedom real.

3.81

2k+

📚 Revisionist History 👇 History From Below 🚔 Social Control

A Renegade History of the United States Summary

A Renegade History of the United States 94%

America's founders feared pleasure. Its drunkards, prostitutes, and gangsters made freedom real.

by Thaddeus Russell 2010

3.81

2k+ ratings

📚 Revisionist History 👇 History From Below 🚔 Social Control

Caste

by Isabel Wilkerson • 2020

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

4.52

164k+

🏛️ Racial Hierarchy ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🚧 American Apartheid

Caste 94%

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

by Isabel Wilkerson 2020

4.52

164k+ ratings

🏛️ Racial Hierarchy ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🚧 American Apartheid

Invisible Child

by Andrea Elliott • 2021

Born homeless in Brooklyn, Dasani gets one shot: a boarding school that accepts one in ten.

4.70

20k+

🏙️ Urban Poverty 🛡️ Child Welfare 🔁 Intergenerational Poverty

Invisible Child 93%

Born homeless in Brooklyn, Dasani gets one shot: a boarding school that accepts one in ten.

by Andrea Elliott 2021

4.70

20k+ ratings

🏙️ Urban Poverty 🛡️ Child Welfare 🔁 Intergenerational Poverty

Black AF History

by Michael Harriot • 2023

Stolen land, stolen labor, and Black genius: the history your textbook skipped.

4.60

10k+

🇺🇸 American History ✊ Antiracism 🔄 Revisionist History

Black AF History 93%

Stolen land, stolen labor, and Black genius: the history your textbook skipped.

by Michael Harriot 2023

4.60

10k+ ratings

🇺🇸 American History ✊ Antiracism 🔄 Revisionist History

Dead Wake

by Erik Larson • 2015

Policies came first, hatred second: 600 years of manufacturing racist ideas to justify exploitation.

4.13

163k+

🧠 Intellectual History 🔗 Systemic Racism ✊ Antiracism

Dead Wake 93%

Policies came first, hatred second: 600 years of manufacturing racist ideas to justify exploitation.

by Erik Larson 2015

4.13

163k+ ratings

🧠 Intellectual History 🔗 Systemic Racism ✊ Antiracism

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