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
Mediocre
The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Feminism
Politics
History
The Color of Welfare
How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty
Sociology
Politics
History
White Borders
The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall
History
Politics
Race
The Politics of Rage
George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics
Politics
History
American History
A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877
History
American History
Civil War
The Common Cause
Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution
History
American Revolution
American History
Paths Out of Dixie
The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944-1972
History
Politics
Political Science
A Nation Under Our Feet
Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
History
American History
Race
Slave Country
American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South
History
American History
Labor
Black Culture & Blk Conscious -30th Anniv (07) by Levine, the late Lawrence W [Paperback (2007)]
History
African American
Folklore
The Wretched of the Earth
Politics
History
Philosophy
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean
History
Race
Politics
The Death of Reconstruction
Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901
History
American History
Politics
Home and Away
Historical Fiction
Sports
Race
White Supremacy
A Comparative Study of American and South African History
History
Race
American History
Working Toward Whiteness
How America's Immigrants Became White: the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
History
Race
Sociology
Bad Faith
Race and the Rise of the Religious Right
Politics
History
Religion
Racial Realignment
The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932–1965
Politics
History
Political Science
Disciples of White Jesus
The Radicalization of American Boyhood
Religion
Politics
Race
Negro President
Jefferson and the Slave Power
History
Biography
Politics
Separate and Unequal
The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism
Politics
History
Race
The Great Demographic Illusion
Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream
Politics
Race
Sociology
The Long Southern Strategy
How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics
Politics
History
American History
The Promised Land
The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
History
Race
American History
Slavery and the Founders
Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson
History
Race
American History
Making Race and Nation
A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil
History
Politics
Political Science
Black Power
The Politics of Liberation
Politics
Race
History
Dog Whistle Politics
How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
Politics
Race
History
Southern Politics In State and Nation
Politics
History
American
Southern Nation
Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction
History
Politics
Race
Workers on Arrival
Black Labor in the Making of America
History
Labor
Race
Inharmonious
Historical Fiction
Romance
Historical
Categorically Unequal
The American Stratification System
Sociology
Politics
Economics
Ethnic Boundary Making
Institutions, Power, Networks
Sociology
Politics
Race
Race and Racism
A Comparative Perspective
Sociology
Anthropology
Race
Cuts Both Ways
Young Adult
Romance
Race
Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion
Including the 1831 "Confessions"
History
Race
American History
American Poison
How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise
Race
Politics
History
Whitewashing Race
The Myth of a Color-Blind Society
Race
Sociology
Politics
Algorithms of Oppression
How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Race
Technology
Social Justice
Creating a New Racial Order
How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America
Academic
Race
Sins of My Father
Growing Up with America’s Most Dangerous White Supremacist
History
Race
Memoir
Producers, Parasites, Patriots
Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity
Politics
Race
United States
The Ruling Race
History
American History
Race
All Our Relations
Native Struggles for Land and Life
Indigenous
History
Environment
The African Origin of Civilization
Myth or Reality
History
Africa
Race
Rich Thanks to Racism
Race
Economics
Politics
American Taxation, American Slavery
History
Economics
American History
Post-Racial or Most-Racial?
Race and Politics in the Obama Era
Politics
Race
African American
Deeply Divided
Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America
Politics
History
Race
