Racism and Inequality 101

1.
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,447 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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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 — 115,057 ratings
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Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave 4.22 avg rating — 123,142 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 — 436 ratings
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Americanah
Americanah 4.31 avg rating — 401,575 ratings
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Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating — 254,543 ratings
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The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War
The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War 4.31 avg rating — 130 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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Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating — 198,749 ratings
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America 4.40 avg rating — 15,754 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 — 113,308 ratings
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Once Upon a Lie
Once Upon a Lie 4.17 avg rating — 127 ratings
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They Come in All Colors
They Come in All Colors 3.45 avg rating — 334 ratings
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How It Went Down
How It Went Down 3.95 avg rating — 7,523 ratings
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Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric 4.26 avg rating — 50,757 ratings
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The Good Lord Bird
The Good Lord Bird 3.95 avg rating — 37,229 ratings
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Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us
Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us 3.92 avg rating — 6,021 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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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 — 75,684 ratings
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When I Was the Greatest
When I Was the Greatest 4.01 avg rating — 7,351 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 — 170,230 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 — 17,336 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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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 — 16,467 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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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 4.17 avg rating — 56,861 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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Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America 4.42 avg rating — 8,136 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 — 37,886 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 — 170,230 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 — 44,189 ratings
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All American Boys
All American Boys 4.29 avg rating — 49,120 ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness By Michelle Alexander Study Guide
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness By Michelle Alexander Study Guide 4.48 avg rating — 27 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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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 — 5,370 ratings
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The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge
The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge 3.95 avg rating — 1,506 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 — 3,392 ratings
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Men We Reaped: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating — 27,673 ratings
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Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route 4.29 avg rating — 2,520 ratings
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Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
by: Abby Sher
3.88 avg rating — 342 ratings
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America 4.32 avg rating — 5,812 ratings
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What Does it Mean to be White in America?: Breaking the White Code of Silence, A Collection of Personal Narratives (2LP EXPLORATIONS IN DIVERSITY)
What Does it Mean to be White in America?: Breaking the White Code of Silence, A Collection of Personal Narratives (2LP EXPLORATIONS IN DIVERSITY) 3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories
Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories 4.11 avg rating — 149 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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Annihilation of Caste
Annihilation of Caste 4.61 avg rating — 8,312 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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Black Skin, White Masks
Black Skin, White Masks 4.26 avg rating — 18,215 ratings
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Mandela and the General
Mandela and the General 4.16 avg rating — 354 ratings
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How To Talk To Black People
How To Talk To Black People
by: A. Anon
3.88 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews
The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews
by: J. Levin
4.17 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Slave No More
Slave No More 3.91 avg rating — 575 ratings
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Khairlanji: A Strange and Bitter Crop
Khairlanji: A Strange and Bitter Crop 4.65 avg rating — 26 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 — 75,684 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 Terror of the Unforeseen
The Terror of the Unforeseen 4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Race
Race 3.51 avg rating — 47 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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The Ballad of Bant Singh: A Qissa of Courage
The Ballad of Bant Singh: A Qissa of Courage 3.81 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US
Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US 4.32 avg rating — 1,549 ratings
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Buses Are a Comin'
Buses Are a Comin' 4.50 avg rating — 918 ratings
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Kill the Boer: Government Complicity in South Africa's Brutal Farm Murders
Kill the Boer: Government Complicity in South Africa's Brutal Farm Murders 4.60 avg rating — 78 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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#Caste is Not a Rumour: The Online Diary of Rohith Vemula
#Caste is Not a Rumour: The Online Diary of Rohith Vemula 3.90 avg rating — 62 ratings
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'Don't Make the Black Kids Angry': The hoax of black victimization and those who enable it.
'Don't Make the Black Kids Angry': The hoax of black victimization and those who enable it. 4.19 avg rating — 258 ratings
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Blindness of Insight: Essays on Caste in Modern India
Blindness of Insight: Essays on Caste in Modern India 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness 4.38 avg rating — 72,276 ratings
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Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform
Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform 4.06 avg rating — 850 ratings
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IQ and the Wealth of Nations
IQ and the Wealth of Nations 3.60 avg rating — 45 ratings
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When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection
When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection 4.38 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
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Dalit Panthers: An Authoritative History
Dalit Panthers: An Authoritative History 4.09 avg rating — 45 ratings
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To Be a Slave
To Be a Slave 3.93 avg rating — 3,022 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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Day of Tears (Coretta Scott King Author Honor Title)
Day of Tears (Coretta Scott King Author Honor Title) 4.15 avg rating — 4,243 ratings
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Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola
Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola 3.81 avg rating — 297 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 — 24,558 ratings
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The Marrow of Tradition
The Marrow of Tradition 3.92 avg rating — 3,509 ratings
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Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,447 ratings
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story 4.61 avg rating — 23,221 ratings
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Four Spirits
Four Spirits 3.79 avg rating — 1,845 ratings
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Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution 4.57 avg rating — 4,577 ratings
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Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom 4.44 avg rating — 2,165 ratings
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Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America
Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America 3.88 avg rating — 1,187 ratings
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents 4.53 avg rating — 156,149 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 — 113,308 ratings
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America 4.70 avg rating — 38,107 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 — 10,762 ratings
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Down These Mean Streets: A Memoir
Down These Mean Streets: A Memoir 4.16 avg rating — 4,853 ratings
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Bodega Dreams
Bodega Dreams 3.93 avg rating — 4,018 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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The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction 3.76 avg rating — 532 ratings
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The Devil's Highway: A True Story
The Devil's Highway: A True Story 4.11 avg rating — 17,929 ratings
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Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War 4.01 avg rating — 1,363 ratings
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Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life 4.16 avg rating — 1,693 ratings
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A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America
A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America 3.63 avg rating — 84 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 — 2,729 ratings
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present 4.18 avg rating — 281 ratings