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1.
A People's History of American Empire
by:
Paul M. Buhle
4.15 avg rating β 2,940 ratings
2.
Do the Work!: An Antiracist Activity Book
by:
W. Kamau Bell
4.63 avg rating β 230 ratings
3.
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
by:
KimberlΓ© Crenshaw
4.37 avg rating β 552 ratings
4.
Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans with Documents, Vol. 1: To 1885
by:
Deborah Gray White
4.04 avg rating β 51 ratings
5.
Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans with Documents, Vol. 2: Since 1865
by:
Deborah Gray White
4.19 avg rating β 31 ratings
6.
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by:
Isabel Wilkerson
4.53 avg rating β 156,133 ratings
7.
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
by:
Nikole Hannah-Jones
4.61 avg rating β 23,215 ratings
8.
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
by:
Nikole Hannah-Jones
4.69 avg rating β 4,679 ratings
9.
The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience
by:
Nikole Hannah-Jones
4.53 avg rating β 66 ratings
10.
A Black Women's History of the United States
by:
Daina Ramey Berry
4.29 avg rating β 3,590 ratings
11.
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
by:
Angela Y. Davis
4.28 avg rating β 2,273 ratings
12.
No More Police: A Case for Abolition
by:
Mariame Kaba
4.59 avg rating β 460 ratings
13.
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
by:
Thenmozhi Soundararajan
4.44 avg rating β 381 ratings
14.
Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition
by:
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
4.35 avg rating β 20 ratings
15.
Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies (Emergent Strategy #9)
by:
Andrea J. Ritchie
4.43 avg rating β 142 ratings
16.
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
by:
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
4.48 avg rating β 271 ratings
17.
Abolition For The People
by:
Colin Kaepernick
4.08 avg rating β 299 ratings
18.
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
by:
Imani Perry
3.97 avg rating β 7,598 ratings
19.
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
by:
Paul Ortiz
4.25 avg rating β 2,456 ratings
20.
Towards the βOther Americaβ: Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter
by:
Chris Crass
3.74 avg rating β 65 ratings
21.
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
by:
Ibram X. Kendi
4.53 avg rating β 37,882 ratings
22.
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
by:
Jason Reynolds
4.47 avg rating β 53,565 ratings
23.
Heal Your Way Forward: The Co-Conspirator's Guide to an Antiracist Future
by:
Myisha T. Hill
4.45 avg rating β 237 ratings
24.
How to Be an Antiracist
by:
Ibram X. Kendi
4.37 avg rating β 118,331 ratings
25.
Antiracist Baby
by:
Ibram X. Kendi
4.06 avg rating β 6,851 ratings
26.
How to Raise an Antiracist
by:
Ibram X. Kendi
4.41 avg rating β 2,649 ratings
27.
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
by:
Ibram X. Kendi
4.56 avg rating β 10,760 ratings
28.
How to Be a (Young) Antiracist
by:
Ibram X. Kendi
4.27 avg rating β 415 ratings
29.
Goodnight Racism
by:
Ibram X. Kendi
4.03 avg rating β 527 ratings
30.
Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide
by:
Britt Hawthorne
4.41 avg rating β 608 ratings
31.
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
by:
Fintan O'Toole
4.33 avg rating β 7,482 ratings
32.
A Peopleβs History of the United States: 1492 - Present
by:
Howard Zinn
4.08 avg rating β 259,689 ratings
33.
A Young People's History of the United States
by:
Rebecca Stefoff
4.30 avg rating β 1,907 ratings
34.
A People's History of the World
by:
Chris Harman
4.03 avg rating β 2,556 ratings
35.
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by:
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.37 avg rating β 19,433 ratings
36.
Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
by:
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.34 avg rating β 1,004 ratings
37.
Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico
by:
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.38 avg rating β 29 ratings
38.
Blood on the Border : A Memoir of the Contra War
by:
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
3.84 avg rating β 75 ratings
39.
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
by:
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.38 avg rating β 66 ratings
40.
Call Us What We Carry
by:
Amanda Gorman
4.26 avg rating β 25,689 ratings
41.
The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth
by:
Jermaine Fowler
4.45 avg rating β 486 ratings
42.
The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century
by:
Kyla Schuller
4.29 avg rating β 85 ratings
43.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by:
James W. Loewen
3.97 avg rating β 72,721 ratings
44.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation
by:
James W. Loewen
4.29 avg rating β 453 ratings
45.
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
by:
David Graeber
4.19 avg rating β 24,319 ratings
46.
California, a Slave State (Lamar Series in Western History)
by:
Jean Pfaelzer
4.42 avg rating β 66 ratings
47.
California: An American History
by:
John Mack Faragher
4.12 avg rating β 221 ratings
48.
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
by:
Kelly Lytle HernΓ‘ndez
4.20 avg rating β 2,205 ratings
49.
Cuba: An American History
by:
Ada Ferrer
4.46 avg rating β 4,958 ratings
50.
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
by:
Juan GonzΓ‘lez
4.23 avg rating β 1,870 ratings
51.
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by:
Charles C. Mann
4.05 avg rating β 93,181 ratings
52.
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
by:
Charles C. Mann
4.12 avg rating β 20,586 ratings
53.
Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story
by:
Marie Arana
4.22 avg rating β 665 ratings
54.
Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
by:
Aviva Chomsky
4.10 avg rating β 458 ratings
55.
The Hundred Yearsβ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917β2017
by:
Rashid Khalidi
4.49 avg rating β 29,919 ratings
56.
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
by:
Eduardo Galeano
4.31 avg rating β 26,227 ratings
57.
Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
by:
Augustine Sedgewick
3.59 avg rating β 1,640 ratings
58.
Solito
by:
Javier Zamora
4.48 avg rating β 65,953 ratings
59.
General Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans
by:
Alan Rosenus
3.96 avg rating β 24 ratings
60.
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
by:
Claudio Saunt
4.22 avg rating β 1,842 ratings
61.
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
by:
Pekka HΓ€mΓ€lΓ€inen
4.05 avg rating β 2,480 ratings
62.
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
by:
Jon Meacham
4.26 avg rating β 15,724 ratings
63.
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
by:
Adam Hochschild
4.19 avg rating β 66,210 ratings
64.
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
by:
Daniel Immerwahr
4.46 avg rating β 19,119 ratings
65.
Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique
by:
Sa'ed Atshan
4.37 avg rating β 283 ratings
66.
Read This to Get Smarter: About Race, Class, Gender, Disability, and More
by:
Blair Imani
4.27 avg rating β 1,368 ratings
67.
Still Rising: Famous Black Quotations for the Twenty-First Century
by:
Janet Cheatham Bell
3.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
68.
On Fascism
by:
Matthew C. Macwilliams
3.95 avg rating β 641 ratings
69.
Imaginary Borders
by:
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
4.02 avg rating β 1,326 ratings
70.
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
by:
Adrienne Maree Brown
4.23 avg rating β 9,151 ratings
71.
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
by:
Adrienne Maree Brown
4.26 avg rating β 9,682 ratings
72.
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
by:
Adrienne Maree Brown
3.93 avg rating β 4,244 ratings
73.
We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
by:
Adrienne Maree Brown
4.29 avg rating β 3,060 ratings
74.
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
by:
Patrisse Khan-Cullors
4.49 avg rating β 25,283 ratings
75.
An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World
by:
Patrisse Khan-Cullors
4.15 avg rating β 878 ratings
76.
When They Call You a Terrorist (Young Adult Edition): A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World
by:
Patrisse Cullors
4.44 avg rating β 526 ratings
77.
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
by:
Layla F. Saad
4.33 avg rating β 30,140 ratings
78.
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
by:
Kelly Hayes
4.55 avg rating β 2,429 ratings
79.
The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
by:
Frederick Joseph
4.46 avg rating β 5,534 ratings
80.
Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood
by:
Frederick Joseph
4.35 avg rating β 1,051 ratings
81.
We Alive, Beloved: Poems
by:
Frederick Joseph
4.52 avg rating β 258 ratings
82.
Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World
by:
Frederick Joseph
4.44 avg rating β 188 ratings
83.
What the Fact?: Finding the Truth in All the Noise
by:
Seema Yasmin
4.02 avg rating β 350 ratings
84.
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
by:
Beverly Daniel Tatum
4.34 avg rating β 26,842 ratings
85.
Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation
by:
Beverly Daniel Tatum
4.11 avg rating β 496 ratings
86.
All About Love: New Visions
by:
bell hooks
4.02 avg rating β 123,556 ratings
87.
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
by:
bell hooks
4.36 avg rating β 27,086 ratings
88.
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
by:
bell hooks
4.50 avg rating β 18,479 ratings
89.
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
by:
bell hooks
4.45 avg rating β 12,301 ratings
90.
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
by:
bell hooks
4.45 avg rating β 8,771 ratings
91.
Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation, #2)
by:
bell hooks
4.35 avg rating β 9,499 ratings
92.
Killing Rage: Ending Racism
by:
bell hooks
4.35 avg rating β 2,854 ratings
93.
Teaching Community
by:
bell hooks
4.34 avg rating β 1,832 ratings
94.
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
by:
bell hooks
4.30 avg rating β 1,555 ratings
95.
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
by:
Audre Lorde
4.56 avg rating β 8,001 ratings
96.
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
by:
Audre Lorde
4.61 avg rating β 2,040 ratings
97.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
by:
Audre Lorde
4.53 avg rating β 39,724 ratings
98.
Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach
by:
Tanya Maria Golash-Boza
4.11 avg rating β 90 ratings
99.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by:
Michelle Alexander
4.52 avg rating β 115,043 ratings
100.
Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America
by:
Leland T Saito
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings