Best books related to race and inquality in the US

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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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Five Practices for Equity-Focused School Leadership
Five Practices for Equity-Focused School Leadership 4.19 avg rating — 83 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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America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America 4.07 avg rating — 1,728 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 — 259,711 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,689,512 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 — 115,050 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating — 115,162 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 — 113,296 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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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 145,383 ratings
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Queen Sugar
Queen Sugar 3.79 avg rating — 9,581 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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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad 4.06 avg rating — 433,363 ratings
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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools 4.35 avg rating — 6,610 ratings
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Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice
Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice 4.04 avg rating — 1,828 ratings
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Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating — 254,511 ratings
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Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,417 ratings
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Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa
Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa 4.18 avg rating — 537 ratings
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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families 4.32 avg rating — 2,727 ratings
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The Book of Angels: Twin Flames Rising
The Book of Angels: Twin Flames Rising
by: Maya El
4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Institutional Racism and the search for African American masculinity and identity in selected works of Richard Wright
Institutional Racism and the search for African American masculinity and identity in selected works of Richard Wright 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63 4.36 avg rating — 9,962 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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Another Country
Another Country 4.30 avg rating — 32,349 ratings
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Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation 4.40 avg rating — 14,692 ratings
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68 4.43 avg rating — 1,899 ratings
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Men We Reaped: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating — 27,670 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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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom 4.07 avg rating — 3,262 ratings
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Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,742 ratings
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How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America
How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America 4.50 avg rating — 4 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 — 5,509 ratings
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From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation 4.47 avg rating — 2,325 ratings
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Whistling Past the Graveyard
Whistling Past the Graveyard 4.10 avg rating — 42,507 ratings
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Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65 4.35 avg rating — 3,007 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? 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America 4.39 avg rating — 1,962 ratings
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Salvage the Bones
Salvage the Bones 3.96 avg rating — 71,447 ratings
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Homegoing
Homegoing
by: Yaa Gyasi
4.47 avg rating — 386,312 ratings
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Living a Feminist Life
Living a Feminist Life 4.31 avg rating — 3,181 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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Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights
Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights 3.99 avg rating — 148 ratings
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The Making of Asian America: A History
The Making of Asian America: A History
by: Erika Lee
4.32 avg rating — 2,702 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 — 44,183 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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In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided 4.17 avg rating — 11,569 ratings
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The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear
The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear 4.30 avg rating — 778 ratings
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Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism 4.20 avg rating — 3,243 ratings
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Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More 4.30 avg rating — 16,468 ratings
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A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor
A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor 3.90 avg rating — 912 ratings
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The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap
The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap
by: Gish Jen
3.50 avg rating — 428 ratings
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race 4.35 avg rating — 9,413 ratings
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy 3.87 avg rating — 29,314 ratings
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Dying to Cross: The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History
Dying to Cross: The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History 3.89 avg rating — 581 ratings
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The Namesake
The Namesake 4.02 avg rating — 280,160 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 — 19,435 ratings
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Reaching for the Stars: The Inspiring Story of a Migrant Farmworker Turned Astronaut
Reaching for the Stars: The Inspiring Story of a Migrant Farmworker Turned Astronaut 4.11 avg rating — 312 ratings
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Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education 4.35 avg rating — 2,399 ratings
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The Gilded Years
The Gilded Years 3.86 avg rating — 8,696 ratings
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Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America 4.23 avg rating — 1,870 ratings
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Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote
Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote 4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Yellow
Yellow 3.73 avg rating — 567 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 4.47 avg rating — 109,956 ratings
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Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement 4.60 avg rating — 3,777 ratings
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How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America 3.95 avg rating — 2,059 ratings
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The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 133,008 ratings
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The House on Mango Street
The House on Mango Street 3.69 avg rating — 222,979 ratings
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Caucasia
Caucasia 4.08 avg rating — 10,081 ratings
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Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga
Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga 3.62 avg rating — 912 ratings
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Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond 4.31 avg rating — 2,059 ratings
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Americanah
Americanah 4.31 avg rating — 401,553 ratings
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You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain 3.84 avg rating — 23,540 ratings
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Drown
Drown 4.01 avg rating — 36,958 ratings
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Black Power TV
Black Power TV really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 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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Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race 4.03 avg rating — 10,662 ratings
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Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth
Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 76 ratings
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In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process: The Colonial Period
In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process: The Colonial Period 4.29 avg rating — 59 ratings
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How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon
How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon 3.91 avg rating — 140 ratings
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How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America
How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America 3.66 avg rating — 277 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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From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans 4.32 avg rating — 630 ratings
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From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i
From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i 4.47 avg rating — 747 ratings
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Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete 4.11 avg rating — 1,466 ratings
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For Whites Only
For Whites Only 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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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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Europe and the People Without History
Europe and the People Without History 4.13 avg rating — 1,277 ratings
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Eugenics and Education in America: Institutionalized Racism and the Implications of History, Ideology, and Memory
Eugenics and Education in America: Institutionalized Racism and the Implications of History, Ideology, and Memory 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Disrupting White Supremacy From Within: White People On What We Need To Do
Disrupting White Supremacy From Within: White People On What We Need To Do really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Dismantling Racism: The Continuing Challenge to White America
Dismantling Racism: The Continuing Challenge to White America 4.05 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Critical Race Theory, An Introduction
Critical Race Theory, An Introduction 3.97 avg rating — 2,642 ratings
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Coming through the Fire: Surviving Race and Place in America
Coming through the Fire: Surviving Race and Place in America 3.14 avg rating — 7 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 — 99,686 ratings
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Bridging the Class Divide: And Other Lessons for Grassroots Organizing
Bridging the Class Divide: And Other Lessons for Grassroots Organizing 4.13 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Blind Spot: The Hidden Biases of Good People
Blind Spot: The Hidden Biases of Good People 3.72 avg rating — 6,533 ratings
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Blaming the Victim
Blaming the Victim 4.23 avg rating — 141 ratings
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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
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Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage
Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage 4.11 avg rating — 920 ratings
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Black and White Styles in Conflict
Black and White Styles in Conflict 3.99 avg rating — 82 ratings
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