Race
Books in this genre confront the complex realities of racial identity, justice, and power in society through personal stories, scholarly analysis, and cultural commentary. These vital works examine systemic racism, civil rights, mass incarceration, education reform, and the lived experiences of people of color across different times and places.
Race Book Summaries
Race Marxism
The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis
Politics
Philosophy
Sociology
The Mis-Education of the Negro
History
Education
Race
The Trouble with Diversity
How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
Politics
Sociology
Race
How to Argue With a Racist
History, Science, Race and Reality
Science
Race
Politics
If Beale Street Could Talk
Classics
Romance
Historical Fiction
We Are Not Yet Equal
Understanding Our Racial Divide
History
Race
Politics
Undoing Border Imperialism
Politics
Race
Activism
Healing Resistance
A Radically Different Response to Harm
Social Justice
Activism
Politics
So You Want to Talk About Race
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
White Tears/Brown Scars
How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
Feminism
Race
Social Justice
Docile
Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl
Memoir
Asian Literature
Asian American
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Politics
Feminism
Race
Between Barack and a Hard Place
Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama
Race
Politics
Social Justice
The Fire Next Time
Classics
Essays
Race
Capitalist Nigger
The Road to Success: A Spider-Web Doctrine
Africa
Inspirational
Race
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Race
Politics
Feminism
Discrimination and Disparities
Economics
Politics
History
The Unprotected Class
How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart
Politics
History
Cultural
Nobody Knows My Name
Essays
Race
Classics
Decolonial Daughter
Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son
Race
Essays
Memoir
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
How White People Profit from Identity Politics
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
Freedom Farmers
Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
History
Food
Race
A More Beautiful and Terrible History
The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
History
Race
Politics
Why We Can't Wait
History
Politics
Race
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
History
Politics
Immigration
Broken Circle
The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools
Indigenous
Memoir
History
Writing My Wrongs
Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison
Memoir
Biography
Autobiography
Master Slave Husband Wife
An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
History
Biography
Book Club
Against White Feminism
Notes on Disruption
Feminism
Race
Politics
Let Us Descend
Historical Fiction
Magical Realism
Historical
The Myth of Race
The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
History
Race
Science
Another Country
Classics
Queer
LGBT
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Race
Politics
History
The Day God Saw Me as Black
Religion
Christianity
Race
Ain't No Makin' It
Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
Sociology
Education
School
How to Be Black
Humor
Memoir
Race
Our Time Is Now
Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
Politics
Social Justice
History
White Malice
The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
History
Africa
Politics
The Great Escape
A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America
History
Politics
Immigration
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
A Memoir
Memoir
Biography
African American
The End of Race Politics
Arguments for a Colorblind America
Politics
Race
History
White Feminism
From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
Feminism
History
Race
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
The Memo
What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table
Business
Self Help
Leadership
Black Folk
The Roots of the Black Working Class
History
Race
Politics
The Lonely Londoners
Classics
London
Historical Fiction
The Color of Money
Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
History
Race
Economics
The End of the Myth
From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
History
Politics
American History
Punishment Without Crime
How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
Law
Politics
Social Justice
I'm Still Here
Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Memoir
Race
Social Justice
