Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Prejudice in America

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To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,689,480 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating — 1,318,980 ratings
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 3.92 avg rating — 239,371 ratings
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The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,254 ratings
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Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind 4.31 avg rating — 1,258,053 ratings
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Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,741 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 568,987 ratings
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Roots: The Saga of an American Family 4.45 avg rating — 163,553 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by: Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,685 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 476,997 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,196 ratings
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The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye 4.13 avg rating — 288,131 ratings
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 4.12 avg rating — 132,003 ratings
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The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club
by: Amy Tan
3.97 avg rating — 703,426 ratings
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12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave 4.22 avg rating — 123,137 ratings
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Black Like Me
Black Like Me 4.11 avg rating — 69,183 ratings
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe 4.28 avg rating — 321,388 ratings
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Fences (The Century Cycle, #6)
Fences (The Century Cycle, #6) 3.88 avg rating — 29,473 ratings
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The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2) 3.70 avg rating — 101,129 ratings
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Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies 4.18 avg rating — 203,042 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 4.17 avg rating — 56,858 ratings
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A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1)
A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 820,180 ratings
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The Milagro Beanfield War
The Milagro Beanfield War 4.10 avg rating — 10,587 ratings
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Driving Miss Daisy
Driving Miss Daisy 4.24 avg rating — 20,403 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating — 115,160 ratings
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Native Son
Native Son 4.04 avg rating — 103,289 ratings
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The Secret Life of Bees
The Secret Life of Bees 4.10 avg rating — 1,337,565 ratings
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My Country 'Tis of Thee
My Country 'Tis of Thee 3.61 avg rating — 956 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk 4.31 avg rating — 44,287 ratings
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Sounder
Sounder 3.97 avg rating — 31,165 ratings
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The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.39 avg rating — 40,391 ratings
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The Other Side of Freedom
The Other Side of Freedom 4.53 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! 3.99 avg rating — 47,016 ratings
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Up from Slavery
Up from Slavery 4.11 avg rating — 35,601 ratings
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Slave Narratives
Slave Narratives 4.49 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Race Matters
Race Matters 4.15 avg rating — 11,892 ratings
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Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars 3.86 avg rating — 192,463 ratings
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Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Native Son 4.37 avg rating — 23,284 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me
Lies My Teacher Told Me 3.97 avg rating — 72,726 ratings
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door
The Spook Who Sat by the Door 4.35 avg rating — 3,485 ratings
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Killing Rage: Ending Racism
Killing Rage: Ending Racism 4.35 avg rating — 2,855 ratings
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Tar Baby
Tar Baby 3.99 avg rating — 23,196 ratings
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A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches 4.57 avg rating — 2,429 ratings
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
The Strange Career of Jim Crow 4.14 avg rating — 3,184 ratings
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The Kaleidoscope: The Gift of Madness
The Kaleidoscope: The Gift of Madness 3.94 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion
Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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In the Heat of the Night (Virgil Tibbs, #1)
In the Heat of the Night (Virgil Tibbs, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 3,106 ratings
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#SayHerName: Black Women's Stories of State Violence and Public Silence
#SayHerName: Black Women's Stories of State Violence and Public Silence 4.47 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. 4.34 avg rating — 23,719 ratings
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Tortilla Flat
Tortilla Flat 3.83 avg rating — 61,128 ratings
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The Mismeasure of Man
The Mismeasure of Man 4.05 avg rating — 9,212 ratings
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Sula
Sula 4.05 avg rating — 117,022 ratings
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 3.92 avg rating — 996,767 ratings
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Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto 4.13 avg rating — 4,029 ratings
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Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays
Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays 4.66 avg rating — 2,293 ratings
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No Irish Need Apply
No Irish Need Apply 3.58 avg rating — 60 ratings
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents 3.62 avg rating — 32,112 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Travels with Charley: In Search of America 4.08 avg rating — 103,310 ratings
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Hawaii
Hawaii 4.22 avg rating — 80,875 ratings
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I Have a Dream / Letter from Birmingham Jail
I Have a Dream / Letter from Birmingham Jail 4.60 avg rating — 2,336 ratings
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Nobody Knows My Name
Nobody Knows My Name 4.37 avg rating — 4,612 ratings
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Smoke Signals: A Screenplay
Smoke Signals: A Screenplay 4.24 avg rating — 1,375 ratings
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500 Years of Indigenous Resistance
500 Years of Indigenous Resistance
by: Gord Hill
4.12 avg rating — 575 ratings
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Second Chances
Second Chances 4.37 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark
Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark 4.02 avg rating — 100 ratings
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A Free Man of Color (Benjamin January, #1)
A Free Man of Color (Benjamin January, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 3,540 ratings
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JUDGES: When The Light Lay Still
JUDGES: When The Light Lay Still 3.37 avg rating — 60 ratings
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How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist 4.37 avg rating — 118,333 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 4.06 avg rating — 281,446 ratings
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Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black
Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black 4.15 avg rating — 2,603 ratings
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Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine 4.23 avg rating — 7,503 ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America 4.53 avg rating — 37,885 ratings
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven 4.09 avg rating — 26,665 ratings
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True History of the Kelly Gang
True History of the Kelly Gang 3.83 avg rating — 23,802 ratings
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The Kitchen God's Wife
The Kitchen God's Wife
by: Amy Tan
4.04 avg rating — 87,070 ratings
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants 4.52 avg rating — 158,494 ratings
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Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? 4.34 avg rating — 26,842 ratings
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Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903
Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903 4.07 avg rating — 176 ratings
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In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti: Double Lives, Troubled Times, and the Massachusetts Murder Case That Shook the World
In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti: Double Lives, Troubled Times, and the Massachusetts Murder Case That Shook the World 3.81 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De LA Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South
Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De LA Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South 4.29 avg rating — 290 ratings
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 3.66 avg rating — 138,472 ratings
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The Feast of All Saints
The Feast of All Saints
by: Anne Rice
3.88 avg rating — 18,586 ratings
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Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)
Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 138,229 ratings
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Wind in the Grasses Dancing: Dancing the Dream Series Book One
Wind in the Grasses Dancing: Dancing the Dream Series Book One 3.96 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Fire in Beulah
Fire in Beulah 4.09 avg rating — 518 ratings
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Malcolm X: In His Own Words
Malcolm X: In His Own Words 4.46 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents 4.53 avg rating — 156,142 ratings
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#SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence
#SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence 4.47 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Queen
Queen 4.24 avg rating — 3,195 ratings
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Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (America and the Long 19th Century)
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (America and the Long 19th Century) 4.45 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Two Nations : Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
Two Nations : Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal 3.88 avg rating — 242 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,107 ratings
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Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South
Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South 4.25 avg rating — 288 ratings
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
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Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating — 258,373 ratings
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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment 3.71 avg rating — 19,531 ratings
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An Organizer's Tale: Speeches
An Organizer's Tale: Speeches 4.19 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa
Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa 4.25 avg rating — 114 ratings
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color 4.52 avg rating — 9,683 ratings
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Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie 3.96 avg rating — 2,643 ratings
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