Race
Books in this genre confront the complex realities of racial identity, justice, and power in society through personal stories, scholarly analysis, and cultural commentary. These vital works examine systemic racism, civil rights, mass incarceration, education reform, and the lived experiences of people of color across different times and places.
Race Book Summaries
James
Historical Fiction
Book Club
Literary Fiction
Accountable
The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
Race
Social Justice
Education
The Nickel Boys
Historical Fiction
Book Club
Historical
Just Mercy
Memoir
Book Club
Social Justice
The Hate U Give
Young Adult
Contemporary
Book Club
Street Data
A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation
Education
Teaching
Leadership
The Making of Asian America
A History
History
Race
Politics
Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain
Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
Education
Teaching
Social Justice
Angel of Greenwood
Historical Fiction
Young Adult
Historical
Dear Martin
Young Adult
Contemporary
Realistic Fiction
Caste
The Origins of Our Discontents
History
Race
Social Justice
Invisible Child
Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Biography
Social Justice
History
Homegoing
Historical Fiction
Book Club
Historical
As We Have Always Done
Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
Indigenous
Politics
History
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
Indigenous
History
Canada
The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
History
Politics
Race
Grading for Equity
What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms
Education
Teaching
School
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Biography
History
Memoir
Native Son
Classics
Historical Fiction
Race
Reading with Patrick
A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship
Memoir
Education
Book Club
Blindspot
Hidden Biases of Good People
Psychology
Science
Anti Racist
Viral Justice
How We Grow the World We Want
Social Justice
Race
Politics
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Historical Fiction
Race
Classics
My Grandmother's Hands
Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
Psychology
Race
Social Justice
Is Everyone Really Equal?
An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education
Education
Social Justice
Race
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too
Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education
Education
Teaching
Social Justice
Hood Feminism
Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Feminism
Race
Social Justice
How to Be an Antiracist
Race
Social Justice
Politics
Tangled Up in Blue
Policing the American City
Politics
Memoir
Social Justice
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Politics
Race
Social Justice
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Classics
African American
Race
Africa Is Not a Country
Notes on a Bright Continent
History
Africa
Politics
Roots
The Saga of an American Family
Historical Fiction
Classics
Historical
America's Original Sin
Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
Race
History
Anti Racist
DEI Deconstructed
Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right
Business
Leadership
Social Justice
How the Word Is Passed
A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
History
Race
Social Justice
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Music
Feminism
History
Race After Technology
Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Race
Technology
Politics
Well-Read Black Girl
Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Essays
Feminism
Race
Learning from the Germans
Race and the Memory of Evil
History
Politics
Philosophy
The Black Kids
Young Adult
Historical Fiction
Contemporary
Teaching to Transgress
Education as the Practice of Freedom
Teaching
Feminism
Social Justice
The Privileged Poor
How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
Education
Sociology
Social Justice
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Biography
History
Autobiography
Ten Myths About Israel
History
Politics
Israel
Eloquent Rage
A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Feminism
Race
Essays
The Second Founding
How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
History
American History
Civil War
The Skin We're In
A Year of Black Resistance and Power
Canada
Race
Politics
Jesus and the Disinherited
Theology
Religion
Christian
Warriors Don't Cry
A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
History
Memoir
School
