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
We Do This 'til We Free Us
Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Politics
Social Justice
Activism
Self-Portrait in Black and White
Unlearning Race
Memoir
Race
Politics
Being Black
Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace
Buddhism
Spirituality
Race
The Bluest Eye
Classics
Historical Fiction
Banned Books
When They Call You a Terrorist
A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Memoir
Race
Social Justice
The Hate Next Door
Undercover within the New Face of White Supremacy
History
Politics
True Crime
The Person You Mean to Be
How Good People Fight Bias
Psychology
Self Help
Social Justice
Black Woman Redefined
Dispelling Myths and Discovering Fulfillment in the Age of Michelle Obama
Self Help
Race
Feminism
Not Stolen
The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World
History
American History
Politics
Christianity and Critical Race Theory
A Faithful and Constructive Conversation
Theology
Race
Christianity
The Faithful Preacher
Recapturing the Vision of Three Pioneering African-American Pastors
Biography
Theology
History
The Pain We Carry
Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color
Psychology
Mental Health
Self Help
We Need New Stories
Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent
Politics
Feminism
Essays
Slavery by Another Name
The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
History
Race
Politics
Me and White Supremacy
Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Race
Anti Racist
Social Justice
The Origins of the Urban Crisis
Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
History
Race
Politics
I'd Rather We Got Casinos
And Other Black Thoughts
Humor
Comedy
Race
From Babylon to Timbuktu
History
Religion
Africa
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
History
Indigenous
Social Justice
Everything and Nothing at Once
A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future
Memoir
Essays
Race
Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Politics
History
Economics
Worse Than Slavery
Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
History
Race
African American
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Race
The Great Contradiction
The Tragic Side of the American Founding
History
American History
Politics
Never Caught
The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
History
Biography
American History
How the South Won the Civil War
Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
History
Politics
American History
Reconstruction
America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
History
American History
Civil War
A Black Women's History of the United States
History
Feminism
Race
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War
History
American History
Politics
Elite Capture
How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics
Politics
Philosophy
Race
Franchise
The Golden Arches in Black America
History
Business
Race
The Souls of Black Folks
History
Classics
Race
Ain't I a Woman
Black Women and Feminism
Feminism
Race
History
The Original Black Elite
Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
History
Race
Biography
Natives
Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
History
Politics
Race
The Wages of Whiteness
Race and the Making of the American Working Class
History
Race
Politics
Unworthy Republic
The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
History
American History
Politics
American Holocaust
The Conquest of the New World
History
Native American
Politics
Medical Apartheid
The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
History
Race
Science
Mexifornia
A State of Becoming
Politics
History
American History
Crusade for Justice
The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
History
Biography
Memoir
Black-Owned
The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
History
Books About Books
Race
White Lies
The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret
History
Biography
Race
A Man Called White
The Autobiography of Walter White
Biography
History
Politics
What if I Say the Wrong Thing?
25 Habits for Culturally Effective People
Self Help
Anti Racist
Leadership
Anatomy of a Lynching
The Killing of Claude Neal
History
True Crime
Crime
Kiki and Jacques
Middle Grade
Realistic Fiction
Childrens
Spectacle
The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga
History
Biography
Race
The Second
Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
History
Politics
Race
Southern Horrors and Other Writings
The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900
History
Race
Essays
