Books to Empower Social Activism

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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 — 435 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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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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The Assignment
The Assignment 4.07 avg rating — 3,574 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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Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to Love It
Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to Love It 4.25 avg rating — 417 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 — 115,044 ratings
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The Blue Horse (Porter Beck, #3)
The Blue Horse (Porter Beck, #3) 4.42 avg rating — 329 ratings
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century 4.27 avg rating — 89,916 ratings
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Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,395 ratings
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Wake, Rise, Resist: The Progressive Teen's Guide to Fighting Tyrants and A*holes
Wake, Rise, Resist: The Progressive Teen's Guide to Fighting Tyrants and A*holes 3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Taking On the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era
Taking On the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era 3.65 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America
Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America 4.10 avg rating — 270 ratings
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The Fight for Freedom
The Fight for Freedom 3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings
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This Stops Today: Eric Garner's Mother Seeks Justice after Losing Her Son
This Stops Today: Eric Garner's Mother Seeks Justice after Losing Her Son
by: Gwen Carr
4.03 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Resisters: 52 Young Women Making Herstory Right Now
Resisters: 52 Young Women Making Herstory Right Now 3.69 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Me Too Girl
The Me Too Girl 4.20 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Atlanta's Concealment of the Baby Gun Club Landfill
Atlanta's Concealment of the Baby Gun Club Landfill 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Constructing Social Reality: An Inquiry into the Normative Foundations of Social Change
Constructing Social Reality: An Inquiry into the Normative Foundations of Social Change it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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State and Revolution
State and Revolution 4.25 avg rating — 17,445 ratings
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We Can Do It: A Community Takes on the Challenge of School Desegregation
We Can Do It: A Community Takes on the Challenge of School Desegregation 4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1) 4.46 avg rating — 986,384 ratings
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Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics
Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics 4.18 avg rating — 2,956 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 — 299 ratings
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Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons
Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)
Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Buses Are a Comin'
Buses Are a Comin' 4.50 avg rating — 918 ratings
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State 4.13 avg rating — 7,492 ratings
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We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future
We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future 4.02 avg rating — 378 ratings
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The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal
The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal 4.10 avg rating — 3,502 ratings
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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Foundations #4)
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Foundations #4) 4.24 avg rating — 8,239 ratings
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The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition 4.44 avg rating — 381 ratings
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The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology
The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology 4.34 avg rating — 1,392 ratings
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The Education of Kendrick Perkins: A Memoir
The Education of Kendrick Perkins: A Memoir 3.91 avg rating — 241 ratings
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The Revisionist Theory of the “Liberation” of Science From Ideology
The Revisionist Theory of the “Liberation” of Science From Ideology really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America 4.30 avg rating — 10,528 ratings