Race, Racism and Identity in America (nonfiction)

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Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street
Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street 4.19 avg rating — 381 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 — 115,042 ratings
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Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties 4.37 avg rating — 491 ratings
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 4.14 avg rating — 425,944 ratings
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Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,373 ratings
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Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class 4.59 avg rating — 33,015 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 — 113,280 ratings
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism 4.50 avg rating — 18,479 ratings
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy 4.38 avg rating — 30,600 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present 4.08 avg rating — 259,684 ratings
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The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth 4.56 avg rating — 434 ratings
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Black Indian: A Memoir
Black Indian: A Memoir 4.06 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider 4.50 avg rating — 918 ratings
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Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson 4.16 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk 4.31 avg rating — 44,282 ratings
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A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community 4.15 avg rating — 422 ratings
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row 4.65 avg rating — 75,640 ratings
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide 4.47 avg rating — 14,603 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,722 ratings
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See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During the Interwar Era
See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During the Interwar Era 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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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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Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class
Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class 4.48 avg rating — 376 ratings
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Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies
Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies 4.34 avg rating — 176 ratings
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March (March, #1)
March (March, #1) 4.35 avg rating — 56,870 ratings
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The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement
The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement 4.11 avg rating — 36 ratings
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When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age
When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age 4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating — 115,133 ratings
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Women, Culture, and Politics
Women, Culture, and Politics 4.38 avg rating — 1,647 ratings
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Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought 4.46 avg rating — 946 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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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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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 — 37,880 ratings
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Five Practices for Equity-Focused School Leadership
Five Practices for Equity-Focused School Leadership 4.19 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Abolition For The People
Abolition For The People 4.08 avg rating — 298 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 — 26,840 ratings
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Abolition for the People: The Movement For a Future without Policing and Prisons
Abolition for the People: The Movement For a Future without Policing and Prisons 4.08 avg rating — 298 ratings
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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 — 24,553 ratings
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The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood 4.08 avg rating — 10,969 ratings
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) 4.37 avg rating — 19,432 ratings
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America 4.26 avg rating — 3,391 ratings
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment 4.41 avg rating — 5,475 ratings
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Black Looks: Race and Representation
Black Looks: Race and Representation 4.36 avg rating — 2,424 ratings
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Killing Rage: Ending Racism
Killing Rage: Ending Racism 4.35 avg rating — 2,854 ratings
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Are Prisons Obsolete? 4.52 avg rating — 28,734 ratings
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Eyes on the Prize (Penguin Books for History: U.S.)
Eyes on the Prize (Penguin Books for History: U.S.) 4.45 avg rating — 938 ratings
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Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating — 254,479 ratings
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How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist 4.37 avg rating — 118,327 ratings
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" 4.05 avg rating — 32,082 ratings
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The Chinese in America: A Narrative History
The Chinese in America: A Narrative History 4.30 avg rating — 1,257 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 — 7,034 ratings
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday 4.28 avg rating — 1,707 ratings
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The Color of Water
The Color of Water 4.15 avg rating — 131,553 ratings
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race 3.96 avg rating — 112,010 ratings
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Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights 4.13 avg rating — 1,560 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 — 19,530 ratings
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Why We Can't Wait
Why We Can't Wait 4.54 avg rating — 8,974 ratings
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Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do 4.32 avg rating — 8,624 ratings
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On Fascism
On Fascism 3.95 avg rating — 641 ratings
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Empire of the Summer Moon
Empire of the Summer Moon 4.24 avg rating — 64,206 ratings
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N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law
N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law 4.33 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven
Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven 4.09 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter
Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter 4.46 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools 4.26 avg rating — 18,906 ratings
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They Called Us Enemy
They Called Us Enemy 4.42 avg rating — 50,168 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) 4.46 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority
Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority
by: Tim Wise
4.14 avg rating — 1,563 ratings
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation 4.32 avg rating — 662 ratings
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The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America 4.24 avg rating — 17,335 ratings
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 4.56 avg rating — 10,760 ratings
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How to Be Black
How to Be Black 3.90 avg rating — 8,857 ratings
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At Mama's Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White
At Mama's Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White 3.67 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom 4.17 avg rating — 12,340 ratings
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A Colony in a Nation
A Colony in a Nation 4.18 avg rating — 6,436 ratings
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Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans 4.16 avg rating — 1,208 ratings
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Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation 4.41 avg rating — 6,283 ratings
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The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America
The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America 4.21 avg rating — 1,432 ratings
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Miscegenation Blues: Voices of Mixed Race Women
Miscegenation Blues: Voices of Mixed Race Women really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26 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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American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World
American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World 4.35 avg rating — 1,086 ratings
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The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)
The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback) 4.34 avg rating — 3,527 ratings
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White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
by: Tim Wise
4.10 avg rating — 5,369 ratings
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Superior: The Return of Race Science
Superior: The Return of Race Science 4.23 avg rating — 5,084 ratings
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Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Native Son 4.37 avg rating — 23,278 ratings
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Negroland
Negroland 3.62 avg rating — 7,832 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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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty 4.45 avg rating — 5,136 ratings
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This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America 4.04 avg rating — 6,731 ratings
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Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II
Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II 4.24 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement 4.03 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Brothers and Keepers
Brothers and Keepers 3.86 avg rating — 1,129 ratings
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: an autobiography
Coming of Age in Mississippi: an autobiography 4.13 avg rating — 11,515 ratings
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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells 4.32 avg rating — 826 ratings
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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America 4.31 avg rating — 3,488 ratings
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Black White and Jewish
Black White and Jewish 3.78 avg rating — 2,940 ratings
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Men We Reaped: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating — 27,660 ratings
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We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity 4.25 avg rating — 1,303 ratings
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Reconsidering Reagan: Racism, Republicans, and the Road to Trump
Reconsidering Reagan: Racism, Republicans, and the Road to Trump 3.88 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Bone Black
Bone Black 4.26 avg rating — 4,136 ratings
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Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics 4.26 avg rating — 824 ratings
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Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States 4.26 avg rating — 3,612 ratings
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