Anti-Racism Resources

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More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech 4.15 avg rating — 440 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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Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America 3.93 avg rating — 6,475 ratings
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This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work 4.39 avg rating — 7,351 ratings
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The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity 4.20 avg rating — 16,810 ratings
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Intellectuals and Race
Intellectuals and Race 4.35 avg rating — 2,032 ratings
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Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed 4.20 avg rating — 1,713 ratings
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The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time 4.55 avg rating — 115,140 ratings
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Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 117,715 ratings
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Good White Racist?: Confronting Your Role in Racial Injustice
Good White Racist?: Confronting Your Role in Racial Injustice 3.83 avg rating — 198 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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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism 4.16 avg rating — 170,211 ratings
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A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles 4.32 avg rating — 4,546 ratings
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The Black Athlete Revolt: The Sport Justice Movement in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter
The Black Athlete Revolt: The Sport Justice Movement in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Social Justice Fallacies
Social Justice Fallacies 4.41 avg rating — 2,418 ratings
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How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist 4.37 avg rating — 118,331 ratings
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The War on the West
The War on the West 4.27 avg rating — 8,978 ratings
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So You Want to Talk About Race
So You Want to Talk About Race 4.49 avg rating — 107,276 ratings
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race 4.38 avg rating — 99,861 ratings
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The Quest for Cosmic Justice
The Quest for Cosmic Justice 4.39 avg rating — 3,229 ratings
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The History of White People
The History of White People 4.07 avg rating — 3,174 ratings
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How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People
How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People 4.03 avg rating — 3,465 ratings
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The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America 4.10 avg rating — 653 ratings
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Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice 3.87 avg rating — 750 ratings
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements 4.20 avg rating — 11,541 ratings
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The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics 4.22 avg rating — 858 ratings
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A People's History of American Empire
A People's History of American Empire 4.15 avg rating — 2,940 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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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 — 115,043 ratings
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Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
by: Akala
4.54 avg rating — 21,685 ratings
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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America 4.23 avg rating — 2,133 ratings
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval 4.43 avg rating — 4,693 ratings
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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 — 4,915 ratings
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One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy 4.39 avg rating — 3,306 ratings
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow 4.16 avg rating — 4,105 ratings
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A Black Women's History of the United States
A Black Women's History of the United States 4.29 avg rating — 3,590 ratings
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot 4.36 avg rating — 60,792 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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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir 4.49 avg rating — 25,283 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 — 37,882 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 — 259,689 ratings
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Howard Zinn on Race
Howard Zinn on Race 4.32 avg rating — 151 ratings
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The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America 3.98 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South
Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South
by: Beth Macy
3.49 avg rating — 3,714 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 Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America 4.19 avg rating — 1,215 ratings
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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America 4.18 avg rating — 5,275 ratings
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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland 4.11 avg rating — 6,867 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 — 109,940 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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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong 3.97 avg rating — 72,721 ratings
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Blackballed: Black American Voting Rights and U.S. Electoral Politics
Blackballed: Black American Voting Rights and U.S. Electoral Politics 3.49 avg rating — 143 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 — 44,181 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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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 — 113,282 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,175 ratings
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Killing Rage: Ending Racism
Killing Rage: Ending Racism 4.35 avg rating — 2,854 ratings
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Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,387 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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Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower 4.38 avg rating — 13,757 ratings
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,724 ratings
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How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective 4.47 avg rating — 4,610 ratings
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'There Ain't no Black in the Union Jack': The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation
'There Ain't no Black in the Union Jack': The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation 4.10 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements 4.25 avg rating — 2,329 ratings
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Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest 4.08 avg rating — 1,428 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 — 29,310 ratings
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Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech 4.07 avg rating — 2,512 ratings
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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism 3.89 avg rating — 3,799 ratings
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Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People 3.72 avg rating — 6,532 ratings
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement 4.44 avg rating — 33,944 ratings
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The Good Immigrant
The Good Immigrant 4.31 avg rating — 13,731 ratings
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Black London: Life Before Emancipation
Black London: Life Before Emancipation 4.03 avg rating — 285 ratings
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Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination 4.30 avg rating — 485 ratings
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Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology 4.14 avg rating — 2,409 ratings
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Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class 4.19 avg rating — 1,313 ratings
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Blackballed: Black American Voting Rights and US Electoral Politics
Blackballed: Black American Voting Rights and US Electoral Politics 3.49 avg rating — 143 ratings
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The End of Policing
The End of Policing 4.18 avg rating — 12,040 ratings
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor 4.01 avg rating — 2,737 ratings
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America 4.17 avg rating — 781 ratings
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Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership 4.26 avg rating — 1,258 ratings