Racism

Racism shapes lives, histories, and systems in ways both visible and deeply hidden — and the books in this section confront that reality head-on, from courtrooms and classrooms to the streets of America and the legacy of empire. Through personal stories, historical reckonings, and sharp social analysis, these works illuminate how racial injustice is built, sustained, and challenged across generations and cultures.

Racism Boksammendrag

The List of Suspicious Things

av Jennie Godfrey

A Yorkshire girl's hunt for the Ripper uncovers worse monsters: the ones her neighbors welcome home.

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🕵️ Child Sleuth 🤫 Small Town Secrets 🚪 Hidden Domestic Abuse 🏘️ Small Town Racism 👀 Small Town Paranoia

The List of Suspicious Things Sammendrag

Oppslukende

The List of Suspicious Things

A Yorkshire girl's hunt for the Ripper uncovers worse monsters: the ones her neighbors welcome home.

av Jennie Godfrey 2024 464 sider

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🕵️ Child Sleuth 🤫 Small Town Secrets 🚪 Hidden Domestic Abuse 🏘️ Small Town Racism 👀 Small Town Paranoia

The New Jim Crow

av Michelle Alexander • 2010

No racist laws required: a felony conviction now strips the rights Jim Crow took by name.

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⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🔓 Prison Reform 🏛️ Structural Racism 💊 Drug War Politics 👁️ Colorblind Racism

The New Jim Crow

No racist laws required: a felony conviction now strips the rights Jim Crow took by name.

av Michelle Alexander 2010 314 sider

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⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🔓 Prison Reform 🏛️ Structural Racism 💊 Drug War Politics 👁️ Colorblind Racism

Dear Martin

av Nic Stone • 2017

Wrongfully arrested, a Black teen writes a civil rights icon. A cop's bullet tests his nonviolence.

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🚨 Racial Profiling 👮🏾‍♂️ Police Brutality ⛓️ Wrongful Arrest 🏫 Private School 💕 Interracial Romance

Dear Martin

Wrongfully arrested, a Black teen writes a civil rights icon. A cop's bullet tests his nonviolence.

av Nic Stone 2017 208 sider

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🚨 Racial Profiling 👮🏾‍♂️ Police Brutality ⛓️ Wrongful Arrest 🏫 Private School 💕 Interracial Romance

Drep ikke en sangfugl

av Harper Lee • 1960

A lawyer defends a Black man in 1930s Alabama, and his daughter sees her town's true face.

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🏚️ Southern Gothic ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 👧 Child Narrator 🎭 False Accusation 🌞 Deep South

Drep ikke en sangfugl

A lawyer defends a Black man in 1930s Alabama, and his daughter sees her town's true face.

av Harper Lee 1960 323 sider

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🏚️ Southern Gothic ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 👧 Child Narrator 🎭 False Accusation 🌞 Deep South

Is Everyone Really Equal?

av Özlem Sensoy • 2011

The most comfortable explanation for inequality is individual failure. It's also the most wrong.

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🎓 Social Justice Education 📚 Critical Race Theory 🔀 Intersectionality ⚖️ Systemic Inequality ✊ Anti-Racism

Is Everyone Really Equal?

The most comfortable explanation for inequality is individual failure. It's also the most wrong.

av Özlem Sensoy 2011 288 sider

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🎓 Social Justice Education 📚 Critical Race Theory 🔀 Intersectionality ⚖️ Systemic Inequality ✊ Anti-Racism

Where We Stand

av bell hooks • 2000

Feminism and antiracism won't succeed until they confront the thing they most ignore: class.

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🤝 Intersectional Feminism 🏛️ Class Analysis ✊🏾 Black Feminism 💸 Poverty In America 🏚️ Housing Discrimination

Where We Stand

Feminism and antiracism won't succeed until they confront the thing they most ignore: class.

av bell hooks 2000 173 sider

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🤝 Intersectional Feminism 🏛️ Class Analysis ✊🏾 Black Feminism 💸 Poverty In America 🏚️ Housing Discrimination

How the Word Is Passed

av Clint Smith • 2021

From Monticello to Angola Prison, nine American sites where slavery's past has never really ended.

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📜 American Slavery 🏛️ Public History 🧠 Collective Memory ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🏚️ Lost Cause Mythology

How the Word Is Passed

From Monticello to Angola Prison, nine American sites where slavery's past has never really ended.

av Clint Smith 2021 336 sider

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📜 American Slavery 🏛️ Public History 🧠 Collective Memory ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🏚️ Lost Cause Mythology

Inglorious Empire

av Shashi Tharoor • 2016

India's economy shrank from 23% of the world to 3% under British rule.

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🏴 British Colonialism 🇮🇳 Indian History ⛓️ Colonial Exploitation 📚 Postcolonial Critique 🔄 Revisionist History

Inglorious Empire

India's economy shrank from 23% of the world to 3% under British rule.

av Shashi Tharoor 2016 288 sider

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🏴 British Colonialism 🇮🇳 Indian History ⛓️ Colonial Exploitation 📚 Postcolonial Critique 🔄 Revisionist History

Original Sins

av Eve L. Ewing • 2025

Schools perfected America's founding crimes on Black and Native children.

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📚 History Of Education 🏫 Schooling And Race ⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🏹 Settler Colonialism 💰 Racial Capitalism

Original Sins

Schools perfected America's founding crimes on Black and Native children.

av Eve L. Ewing 2025 400 sider

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📚 History Of Education 🏫 Schooling And Race ⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🏹 Settler Colonialism 💰 Racial Capitalism

Sweet Sixteen

av Annelise Heurtier • 2013

A Black teen integrates an Arkansas high school; a white classmate learns silence has a price.

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🏫 School Desegregation ✊🏾 Civil Rights Era 🏚️ Jim Crow South 👥 Dual Narratives 👁️ Racial Awakening

Sweet Sixteen

A Black teen integrates an Arkansas high school; a white classmate learns silence has a price.

av Annelise Heurtier 2013 217 sider

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🏫 School Desegregation ✊🏾 Civil Rights Era 🏚️ Jim Crow South 👥 Dual Narratives 👁️ Racial Awakening

A Calamity of Souls

av David Baldacci • 2024

White and Black lawyers risk everything to save a veteran framed for murder in 1968 Virginia.

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🏛️ Courtroom Drama ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction ✊🏾 Racial Injustice 🗺️ 1960s Virginia 🤝 Interracial Partnership

A Calamity of Souls

White and Black lawyers risk everything to save a veteran framed for murder in 1968 Virginia.

av David Baldacci 2024 480 sider

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🏛️ Courtroom Drama ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction ✊🏾 Racial Injustice 🗺️ 1960s Virginia 🤝 Interracial Partnership

A Fever in the Heartland

av Timothy Egan • 2023

In 1920s Indiana, the Klan was the law. One woman's dying declaration exposed the regime.

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👻 Klan History 🏛️ Political Corruption 🔪 True Crime History 📰 Exposé Journalism ⚖️ Legal Reckoning

A Fever in the Heartland

In 1920s Indiana, the Klan was the law. One woman's dying declaration exposed the regime.

av Timothy Egan 2023 432 sider

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👻 Klan History 🏛️ Political Corruption 🔪 True Crime History 📰 Exposé Journalism ⚖️ Legal Reckoning

Dead Wake

av Erik Larson • 2015

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

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🧠 Intellectual History 🔗 Systemic Racism ✊ Antiracism 💭 Racial Ideology ⚡ Race And Power

Dead Wake

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

av Erik Larson 2015 430 sider

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🧠 Intellectual History 🔗 Systemic Racism ✊ Antiracism 💭 Racial Ideology ⚡ Race And Power

LatinoLand

av Marie Arana • 2024

Thirty-three countries, five centuries of mixing: the real story inside the label 'Latino.'

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🪪 Latino Identity 🧳 Immigration History 📚 Ethnic Studies 🧬 Racial Formation 🗣️ Immigrant Narratives

LatinoLand

Thirty-three countries, five centuries of mixing: the real story inside the label 'Latino.'

av Marie Arana 2024 573 sider

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🪪 Latino Identity 🧳 Immigration History 📚 Ethnic Studies 🧬 Racial Formation 🗣️ Immigrant Narratives

Out of Darkness

av Ashley Hope Pérez • 2016

1937 Texas: a Mexican American girl, a Black boy, and a love their town wants dead.

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💔 Forbidden Love 💕 Interracial Romance 🏚️ Jim Crow South 📜 Depression Era 🌊 Lyrical Tragedy

Out of Darkness

1937 Texas: a Mexican American girl, a Black boy, and a love their town wants dead.

av Ashley Hope Pérez 2016 402 sider

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💔 Forbidden Love 💕 Interracial Romance 🏚️ Jim Crow South 📜 Depression Era 🌊 Lyrical Tragedy

Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education (Equity and Social Justice in Education)

av Alex Shevrin Venet • 2021

Your school's policies may be causing trauma. The shift from fixing kids to fixing systems.

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🧠 Trauma Informed Teaching ⚖️ Equity In Education 📚 Critical Pedagogy 🌿 Teacher Wellness 🏫 School Culture

Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education (Equity and Social Justice in Education)

Your school's policies may be causing trauma. The shift from fixing kids to fixing systems.

av Alex Shevrin Venet 2021 256 sider

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🧠 Trauma Informed Teaching ⚖️ Equity In Education 📚 Critical Pedagogy 🌿 Teacher Wellness 🏫 School Culture

The Grift

av Clay Cane • 2024

From Reconstruction to Trump, the Black conservatives who enabled racism for a seat at the table.

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🏛️ African American History 🐘 Black Conservatism 💰 Political Opportunism 🗳️ Voting Rights 📜 Reconstruction Era

The Grift

From Reconstruction to Trump, the Black conservatives who enabled racism for a seat at the table.

av Clay Cane 2024 400 sider

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🏛️ African American History 🐘 Black Conservatism 💰 Political Opportunism 🗳️ Voting Rights 📜 Reconstruction Era

Woke Racism

av John McWhorter • 2021

Today's antiracism is a secular faith, and it is failing the people it claims to save

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🛑 Antiracism Critique ⚔️ Culture Wars 😢 Victimhood Culture 🤐 Political Correctness 🖤 Heterodox Black Thought

Woke Racism

Today's antiracism is a secular faith, and it is failing the people it claims to save

av John McWhorter 2021 220 sider

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🛑 Antiracism Critique ⚔️ Culture Wars 😢 Victimhood Culture 🤐 Political Correctness 🖤 Heterodox Black Thought

Orientalism

av Edward W. Said • 1978

Western knowledge of the East was never innocent: it invented the Orient to justify imperial rule.

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📚 Postcolonial Theory 🏛️ Cultural Imperialism 👤 Othering 📖 Colonial Knowledge 💬 Discourse Analysis

Orientalism

Western knowledge of the East was never innocent: it invented the Orient to justify imperial rule.

av Edward W. Said 1978 424 sider

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📚 Postcolonial Theory 🏛️ Cultural Imperialism 👤 Othering 📖 Colonial Knowledge 💬 Discourse Analysis

Nice Racism

av Robin DiAngelo • 2021

Progressive white people may be racial justice's biggest obstacle, and niceness is no defense.

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🤝 White Allyship ✊ Antiracism 👁️ Colorblind Racism 🛡️ White Defensiveness 📖 Critical Race Theory

Nice Racism

Progressive white people may be racial justice's biggest obstacle, and niceness is no defense.

av Robin DiAngelo 2021 220 sider

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🤝 White Allyship ✊ Antiracism 👁️ Colorblind Racism 🛡️ White Defensiveness 📖 Critical Race Theory

Caste

av Isabel Wilkerson • 2020

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

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🏛️ Racial Hierarchy ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🚧 American Apartheid 😶 Dehumanization 🔺 Social Hierarchy

Caste

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

av Isabel Wilkerson 2020 456 sider

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🏛️ Racial Hierarchy ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🚧 American Apartheid 😶 Dehumanization 🔺 Social Hierarchy

On Palestine

av Noam Chomsky • 2015

The peace process masks land theft; only a democratic single state can break the cycle.

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🇵🇸 Israel Palestine 🏘️ Settler Colonialism 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🧳 Palestinian Refugees ✊ Decolonization

On Palestine

The peace process masks land theft; only a democratic single state can break the cycle.

av Noam Chomsky 2015 220 sider

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🇵🇸 Israel Palestine 🏘️ Settler Colonialism 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🧳 Palestinian Refugees ✊ Decolonization

We Are Not Yet Equal

av Carol Anderson • 2018

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

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⚖ Systemic Racism 📚 African American History 🔄 Backlash Politics 🗳 Voter Suppression 🔗 Mass Incarceration

We Are Not Yet Equal

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

av Carol Anderson 2018

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⚖ Systemic Racism 📚 African American History 🔄 Backlash Politics 🗳 Voter Suppression 🔗 Mass Incarceration

Six Truths and a Lie

av Ream Shukairy • 2024

Six Muslim teens at a beach bonfire are arrested for a terrorist attack they didn't commit.

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⚖️ False Accusation 🏛️ Legal Thriller ✊ Teens Vs The System 🤝 Strangers To Allies 🚔 Police Killing

Six Truths and a Lie

Six Muslim teens at a beach bonfire are arrested for a terrorist attack they didn't commit.

av Ream Shukairy 2024 400 sider

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⚖️ False Accusation 🏛️ Legal Thriller ✊ Teens Vs The System 🤝 Strangers To Allies 🚔 Police Killing

Snø over sedertrærne

av David Guterson • 1994

Amid snow and prejudice, a Japanese American's murder trial hinges on his wife's first love.

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⚖️ Courtroom Drama ⛩️ Japanese Internment 💔 Forbidden Love 🔒 Wrongfully Accused 🌲 Pacific Northwest

Snø over sedertrærne

Amid snow and prejudice, a Japanese American's murder trial hinges on his wife's first love.

av David Guterson 1994 460 sider

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⚖️ Courtroom Drama ⛩️ Japanese Internment 💔 Forbidden Love 🔒 Wrongfully Accused 🌲 Pacific Northwest

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

av George Lipsitz • 1998

Racial inequality is the return on a system that turned whiteness into a wealth-building asset.

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⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🤍 Whiteness Studies 💰 Racial Wealth Gap 🏛️ Systemic Racism 🏠 Housing Discrimination

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

Racial inequality is the return on a system that turned whiteness into a wealth-building asset.

av George Lipsitz 1998 296 sider

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⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🤍 Whiteness Studies 💰 Racial Wealth Gap 🏛️ Systemic Racism 🏠 Housing Discrimination

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

av Howard Zinn • 1994

History never stops, and silence is a political act: a memoir of war, racism, and radicalization.

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🚩 American Leftism ✊ Civil Disobedience ☮️ Anti-War Activism 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 🏭 Class Consciousness

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

History never stops, and silence is a political act: a memoir of war, racism, and radicalization.

av Howard Zinn 1994 214 sider

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🚩 American Leftism ✊ Civil Disobedience ☮️ Anti-War Activism 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 🏭 Class Consciousness

The Art of Rest

av Claudia Hammond • 2019

Before the genocide, there was a homeless painter, a spellbinding voice, and a prison cell.

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👹 Nazi Germany 👑 Dictator Biographies 📈 Rise To Power 🧠 Political Psychology 📣 Propaganda Analysis

The Art of Rest

Before the genocide, there was a homeless painter, a spellbinding voice, and a prison cell.

av Claudia Hammond 2019 304 sider

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👹 Nazi Germany 👑 Dictator Biographies 📈 Rise To Power 🧠 Political Psychology 📣 Propaganda Analysis

Nelson Mandela

av Martin Meredith • 1997

They put him on trial to silence him. His dock statement made apartheid the defendant instead.

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🇿🇦 South African History ✊ Anti-Apartheid Movement 🔗 Political Imprisonment ⛓️ Colonial Resistance 🗽 Freedom Fighters

Nelson Mandela

They put him on trial to silence him. His dock statement made apartheid the defendant instead.

av Martin Meredith 1997 596 sider

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🇿🇦 South African History ✊ Anti-Apartheid Movement 🔗 Political Imprisonment ⛓️ Colonial Resistance 🗽 Freedom Fighters

The Conscience of a Liberal

av Paul Krugman • 2007

Extreme inequality didn't just happen: a political movement used race to dismantle the middle class.

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📊 Income Inequality 🏛️ Political Economy 🗳️ Racial Politics 🏥 Universal Healthcare 🛡️ Welfare State Politics

The Conscience of a Liberal

Extreme inequality didn't just happen: a political movement used race to dismantle the middle class.

av Paul Krugman 2007 296 sider

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📊 Income Inequality 🏛️ Political Economy 🗳️ Racial Politics 🏥 Universal Healthcare 🛡️ Welfare State Politics

The Injustice of Place

av Kathryn J. Edin • 2023

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

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🗺️ Internal Colonialism 📍 Spatial Inequality ⛏️ Resource Extraction 🏫 School Segregation ⛓️ Racial Subjugation

The Injustice of Place

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

av Kathryn J. Edin 2023 352 sider

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🗺️ Internal Colonialism 📍 Spatial Inequality ⛏️ Resource Extraction 🏫 School Segregation ⛓️ Racial Subjugation

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 sider

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

Black AF History

av Michael Harriot • 2023

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

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🇺🇸 American History ✊ Antiracism 🔄 Revisionist History ⛓️ Systemic Racism 💰 Racial Wealth Gap

Black AF History

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

av Michael Harriot 2023 432 sider

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🇺🇸 American History ✊ Antiracism 🔄 Revisionist History ⛓️ Systemic Racism 💰 Racial Wealth Gap

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 sider

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

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 sider

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

What the Eyes Don't See

av Mona Hanna-Attisha • 2018

Her data proved Flint's water toxic. The state smeared her and called it a seasonal anomaly.

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🏭 Environmental Racism 🤐 Government Cover-Up 🩺 Public Health 📢 Whistleblowing 🧪 Science Activism

What the Eyes Don't See

Her data proved Flint's water toxic. The state smeared her and called it a seasonal anomaly.

av Mona Hanna-Attisha 2018 384 sider

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🏭 Environmental Racism 🤐 Government Cover-Up 🩺 Public Health 📢 Whistleblowing 🧪 Science Activism

Searching for God Knows What

av Donald Miller • 2004

Skull measurements divided Europeans into three, and the conclusion reshaped history.

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🔬 Scientific Racism 🧪 Eugenics Movement 🧬 Biological Determinism 🚫 Immigration Restriction 📐 Racial Anthropology

Searching for God Knows What

Skull measurements divided Europeans into three, and the conclusion reshaped history.

av Donald Miller 2004 246 sider

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🔬 Scientific Racism 🧪 Eugenics Movement 🧬 Biological Determinism 🚫 Immigration Restriction 📐 Racial Anthropology

Outrun the Moon

av Stacey Lee • 2016

A girl from 1906 Chinatown poses as an heiress to enter an all-white finishing school.

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⛑️ Disaster Survival 🎭 Secret Identity 🫂 Found Family 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🤝 Rivals To Friends

Outrun the Moon

A girl from 1906 Chinatown poses as an heiress to enter an all-white finishing school.

av Stacey Lee 2016 391 sider

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⛑️ Disaster Survival 🎭 Secret Identity 🫂 Found Family 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🤝 Rivals To Friends

Child of All Nations

av Pramoedya Ananta Toer • 1981

When colonial law steals his wife, a Javanese writer discovers that words are his only weapon.

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🌍 Postcolonial Literature 💔 Forced Separation 🌱 Political Awakening ✍️ Writer Protagonist 😢 Grief And Resilience

Child of All Nations

When colonial law steals his wife, a Javanese writer discovers that words are his only weapon.

av Pramoedya Ananta Toer 1981 352 sider

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🌍 Postcolonial Literature 💔 Forced Separation 🌱 Political Awakening ✍️ Writer Protagonist 😢 Grief And Resilience

Mudbound

av Hillary Jordan • 2008

A white farm wife and a black war hero cross the Delta's line; the mud swallows secrets and bodies.

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🏚️ Southern Gothic ⛓️ Jim Crow South 🌾 Sharecropper Life 🪖 War Trauma 💔 Forbidden Affair

Mudbound

A white farm wife and a black war hero cross the Delta's line; the mud swallows secrets and bodies.

av Hillary Jordan 2008 328 sider

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🏚️ Southern Gothic ⛓️ Jim Crow South 🌾 Sharecropper Life 🪖 War Trauma 💔 Forbidden Affair

Black Shack Alley

av Joseph Zobel • 1980

In Martinique's cane fields, a grandmother bets everything on school to free her grandson.

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🌴 Colonial Caribbean 🧒🏿 Childhood Poverty 👵🏿 Matriarchal Family 📚 Education As Escape 🗣️ Oral Tradition

Black Shack Alley

In Martinique's cane fields, a grandmother bets everything on school to free her grandson.

av Joseph Zobel 1980 184 sider

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🌴 Colonial Caribbean 🧒🏿 Childhood Poverty 👵🏿 Matriarchal Family 📚 Education As Escape 🗣️ Oral Tradition

The Origins of the Urban Crisis

av Thomas J. Sugrue • 1996

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

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🏙️ Urban History ⚖️ Racial Inequality 🏭 Deindustrialization 🏠 Housing Segregation ✈️ White Flight

The Origins of the Urban Crisis

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

av Thomas J. Sugrue 1996 416 sider

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🏙️ Urban History ⚖️ Racial Inequality 🏭 Deindustrialization 🏠 Housing Segregation ✈️ White Flight

Authoritarian Nightmare

av John W. Dean • 2020

Two personality scales, tested for decades, predicted Trump's base and its immunity to facts.

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🗳️ Trump Era 👤 Authoritarian Personality 🏛️ Political Psychology 🥇 Group Dominance 🔍 Cognitive Biases

Authoritarian Nightmare

Two personality scales, tested for decades, predicted Trump's base and its immunity to facts.

av John W. Dean 2020 368 sider

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🗳️ Trump Era 👤 Authoritarian Personality 🏛️ Political Psychology 🥇 Group Dominance 🔍 Cognitive Biases

American Holocaust

av David E. Stannard • 1992

Before 1492, the Americas held more people than Europe. What followed erased 90 percent of them.

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💀 Colonial Genocide 📖 Genocide Studies ✝️ Religious Violence 🔗 Dehumanization 🏚️ Land Dispossession

American Holocaust

Before 1492, the Americas held more people than Europe. What followed erased 90 percent of them.

av David E. Stannard 1992 408 sider

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💀 Colonial Genocide 📖 Genocide Studies ✝️ Religious Violence 🔗 Dehumanization 🏚️ Land Dispossession

War Against the Weak

av Edwin Black • 2003

Carnegie and Rockefeller funded America's eugenics; Hitler learned from it and built the Holocaust.

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🧬 Eugenics History 🧪 Scientific Racism ⚖️ Forced Sterilization 💰 Philanthropy Critique 📜 Immigration Policy

War Against the Weak

Carnegie and Rockefeller funded America's eugenics; Hitler learned from it and built the Holocaust.

av Edwin Black 2003 592 sider

4.23

1 000+ vurderinger

🧬 Eugenics History 🧪 Scientific Racism ⚖️ Forced Sterilization 💰 Philanthropy Critique 📜 Immigration Policy

The Second

av Carol Anderson • 2021

The Second Amendment was built to control Black Americans, and two centuries later, it still does.

4.31

1 000+

🎯 American Gun Politics 📜 Constitutional History 🖤 Anti-Blackness ⚖️ Legal History 💔 Racial Violence

The Second

The Second Amendment was built to control Black Americans, and two centuries later, it still does.

av Carol Anderson 2021 272 sider

4.31

1 000+ vurderinger

🎯 American Gun Politics 📜 Constitutional History 🖤 Anti-Blackness ⚖️ Legal History 💔 Racial Violence

Illiberal America

av Steven Hahn • 2024

American liberty as a tradition is a Cold War invention; illiberalism is the nation's true center.

4.16

318

🏛 Illiberal Politics ⛓ Racial Capitalism 📚 Revisionist History 🔒 Mass Incarceration 💹 Political Economy

Illiberal America

American liberty as a tradition is a Cold War invention; illiberalism is the nation's true center.

av Steven Hahn 2024 464 sider

4.16

318 vurderinger

🏛 Illiberal Politics ⛓ Racial Capitalism 📚 Revisionist History 🔒 Mass Incarceration 💹 Political Economy

White Too Long

av Robert P. Jones • 2020

White churches didn't just tolerate racism. Survey data reveals they constructed and sustained it.

4.42

2 000+

⛪ Religion And Race 🇺🇸 American Christianity 📖 White Evangelicalism 🏛️ Institutional Racism ⚖️ Reparative Justice

White Too Long

White churches didn't just tolerate racism. Survey data reveals they constructed and sustained it.

av Robert P. Jones 2020 306 sider

4.42

2 000+ vurderinger

⛪ Religion And Race 🇺🇸 American Christianity 📖 White Evangelicalism 🏛️ Institutional Racism ⚖️ Reparative Justice

The Wrath to Come

av Sarah Churchwell • 2022

Thirty million copies of a single novel taught America to love a lie. The lost cause won.

4.22

500+

🏚️ Lost Cause Mythology 💰 Racial Capitalism 📜 Historical Revisionism 🎬 Cultural Criticism 🧠 Collective Memory

The Wrath to Come

Thirty million copies of a single novel taught America to love a lie. The lost cause won.

av Sarah Churchwell 2022 464 sider

4.22

500+ vurderinger

🏚️ Lost Cause Mythology 💰 Racial Capitalism 📜 Historical Revisionism 🎬 Cultural Criticism 🧠 Collective Memory

Civic Ideals

av Rogers M. Smith • 1997

America's citizenship wasn't just about freedom; it was built on racial and gender hierarchy.

4.12

🏛️ Constitutional History ⚖️ Race And The Law 📘 Critical Race Theory 🆔 Citizenship Studies 📖 Nation-Building Myths

Civic Ideals

America's citizenship wasn't just about freedom; it was built on racial and gender hierarchy.

av Rogers M. Smith 1997 736 sider

4.12

42 vurderinger

🏛️ Constitutional History ⚖️ Race And The Law 📘 Critical Race Theory 🆔 Citizenship Studies 📖 Nation-Building Myths

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