Breaking Brown Book Reads

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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating — 44,180 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,045 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,096 ratings
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present 4.43 avg rating — 9,664 ratings
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America 4.13 avg rating — 2,018 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
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The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap 4.47 avg rating — 2,300 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
Outliers: The Story of Success 4.19 avg rating — 845,810 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,290 ratings
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing 4.49 avg rating — 2,243 ratings
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography 4.11 avg rating — 35,601 ratings
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Superpredator: Bill Clinton's Use and Abuse of Black America
Superpredator: Bill Clinton's Use and Abuse of Black America 4.39 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President
Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President 3.76 avg rating — 2,445 ratings
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Das Kapital
Das Kapital
by: Karl Marx
4.09 avg rating — 23,214 ratings
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Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul 4.10 avg rating — 1,242 ratings
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 4.45 avg rating — 5,508 ratings
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Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It 3.72 avg rating — 2,516 ratings
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The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther 4.46 avg rating — 2,713 ratings
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community 3.85 avg rating — 8,658 ratings
20.
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America 3.76 avg rating — 24,556 ratings
21.
The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood
The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood 4.61 avg rating — 213 ratings
21.
Capitalism and Freedom
Capitalism and Freedom 3.90 avg rating — 14,799 ratings
23.
Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching
Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching 4.34 avg rating — 218 ratings
23.
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism 4.36 avg rating — 1,453 ratings
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Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future
Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future 3.88 avg rating — 286 ratings
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Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good
Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good 4.18 avg rating — 437 ratings
26.
Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law
Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law 4.17 avg rating — 195 ratings
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How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society 4.36 avg rating — 777 ratings
29.
When Breath Becomes Air
When Breath Becomes Air 4.41 avg rating — 767,308 ratings
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Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life 4.16 avg rating — 1,693 ratings
31.
Capital in the Twenty First Century
Capital in the Twenty First Century 4.06 avg rating — 33,859 ratings
32.
Ida: A Sword Among Lions
Ida: A Sword Among Lions 4.27 avg rating — 947 ratings
33.
How Propaganda Works
How Propaganda Works 3.56 avg rating — 733 ratings
34.
Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality
Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality 4.22 avg rating — 282 ratings
34.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating — 445,050 ratings
36.
The Clinton Wars
The Clinton Wars 3.64 avg rating — 329 ratings
37.
The Myth of Black Capitalism
The Myth of Black Capitalism 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
38.
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 4.21 avg rating — 6,120 ratings
39.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 3.88 avg rating — 34,381 ratings
40.
The United-Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept Textbook: A Compensatory Counter-Racist Code
The United-Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept Textbook: A Compensatory Counter-Racist Code 4.59 avg rating — 156 ratings
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1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back
1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back 4.02 avg rating — 56 ratings
42.
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked 3.85 avg rating — 12,528 ratings
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Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator 3.86 avg rating — 12,019 ratings
44.
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Selections from the Prison Notebooks 4.20 avg rating — 5,187 ratings
45.
The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations
The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
46.
In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era
In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era 4.41 avg rating — 59 ratings
47.
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life 4.14 avg rating — 24,225 ratings
48.
Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment
Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment 4.06 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents 4.53 avg rating — 156,137 ratings
50.
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power 4.47 avg rating — 3,602 ratings
51.
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. 4.16 avg rating — 35,591 ratings
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How the Irish Became White
How the Irish Became White 3.73 avg rating — 1,710 ratings
53.
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom 4.17 avg rating — 12,342 ratings
54.
Age of Oprah
Age of Oprah 3.94 avg rating — 32 ratings
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From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation 4.47 avg rating — 2,325 ratings
56.
The Power of Myth
The Power of Myth 4.26 avg rating — 53,107 ratings
57.
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama 3.64 avg rating — 482 ratings
57.
High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society
High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society 4.13 avg rating — 3,002 ratings
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The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism 4.49 avg rating — 12,423 ratings
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Denmark Vesey: The Buried Story of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It
Denmark Vesey: The Buried Story of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It 4.05 avg rating — 262 ratings
61.
Negroes with Guns
Negroes with Guns 4.51 avg rating — 1,078 ratings
61.
Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy
Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy 3.87 avg rating — 63 ratings
63.
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? 4.62 avg rating — 3,828 ratings
64.
Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy 4.40 avg rating — 487 ratings
65.
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" 4.05 avg rating — 32,083 ratings
66.
Outsider in the White House
Outsider in the White House 4.13 avg rating — 1,619 ratings
67.
Letters from a Stoic
Letters from a Stoic
by: Seneca
4.33 avg rating — 52,580 ratings
68.
The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? (American Politics and Political Economy Series)
The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? (American Politics and Political Economy Series) 3.73 avg rating — 267 ratings
68.
Black Communist in the Freedom Struggle: The Life of Harry Haywood
Black Communist in the Freedom Struggle: The Life of Harry Haywood 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings
70.
Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique
Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique 4.30 avg rating — 101 ratings
71.
Class Notes: Posing As Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene
Class Notes: Posing As Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene 4.42 avg rating — 379 ratings
72.
The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850-1925
The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850-1925 3.82 avg rating — 33 ratings
72.
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa 4.19 avg rating — 66,220 ratings
72.
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else 3.62 avg rating — 3,147 ratings
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality 4.13 avg rating — 40,011 ratings
72.
The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon: The Crisis of Purpose in Afro-American Politics
The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon: The Crisis of Purpose in Afro-American Politics 4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings
77.
American Slavery, American Freedom
American Slavery, American Freedom 4.12 avg rating — 3,519 ratings
78.
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea 4.09 avg rating — 1,976 ratings
78.
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln 4.28 avg rating — 196,295 ratings
78.
Stanton: Lincoln's Staunch Secretary of War
Stanton: Lincoln's Staunch Secretary of War 4.15 avg rating — 312 ratings
78.
Bill Clinton and Black America
Bill Clinton and Black America 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
78.
The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South
The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South 3.73 avg rating — 126 ratings
78.
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago 4.32 avg rating — 4,881 ratings
84.
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South 4.29 avg rating — 4,918 ratings
84.
Immigration and the Remaking of Black America
Immigration and the Remaking of Black America 4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings
84.
Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American
Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American 4.03 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence
Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence 4.37 avg rating — 30 ratings
87.
The Racial Contract
The Racial Contract 4.39 avg rating — 1,811 ratings
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Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History
Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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How the Irish Became White
How the Irish Became White 3.73 avg rating — 1,710 ratings
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Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction (Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, 7)
Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction (Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, 7) 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Are Italians White?
Are Italians White? 4.22 avg rating — 78 ratings
93.
The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations On Cotton And Slavery In The American Slave States, 1853-1861
The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations On Cotton And Slavery In The American Slave States, 1853-1861 3.94 avg rating — 261 ratings
94.
Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir
Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir 3.91 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family 4.02 avg rating — 6,800 ratings