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James Summary
James
by Percival Everett 2024 303 pages
4.52
200k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Historical
Accountable Summary
Accountable
The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
by Dashka Slater 2023 480 pages
4.27
4k+ ratings
Race
Social Justice
Education
The Nickel Boys Summary
The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead 2019 213 pages
4.26
200k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Historical
Race
Just Mercy Summary
Just Mercy
by Bryan Stevenson 2014 336 pages
4.63
200k+ ratings
Memoir
Social Justice
Race
Street Data Summary
Street Data
A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation
by Shane Safir 2021
4.23
500+ ratings
Education
Teaching
Leadership
The Hate U Give Summary
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas 2017 454 pages
4.46
900k+ ratings
Young Adult
Contemporary
Realistic Fiction
The Making of Asian America Summary
The Making of Asian America
A History
by Erika Lee 2015 528 pages
4.33
2k+ ratings
History
Race
Politics
Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain Summary
Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain
Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
by Zaretta Lynn Hammond 2014 192 pages
4.36
5k+ ratings
Education
Teaching
Social Justice
Invisible Child Summary
Invisible Child
Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
by Andrea Elliott 2021 602 pages
4.71
17k+ ratings
Biography
Social Justice
History
Angel of Greenwood Summary
Angel of Greenwood
by Randi Pink 2021 304 pages
4.20
2k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Young Adult
Historical
Caste Summary
Caste
The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson 2020 544 pages
4.53
100k+ ratings
History
Race
Social Justice
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act Summary
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
by Bob Joseph 2018 160 pages
4.57
9k+ ratings
Indigenous
History
Canada
Homegoing Summary
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi 2016 305 pages
4.47
300k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Historical
Literary Fiction
Grading for Equity Summary
Grading for Equity
What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms
by Joe Feldman 2018 296 pages
4.20
1k+ ratings
Education
Teaching
School
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Summary
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X 1965 466 pages
4.36
200k+ ratings
Biography
History
Memoir
The New Jim Crow Summary
The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander 2010 290 pages
4.52
100k+ ratings
History
Politics
Race
As We Have Always Done Summary
As We Have Always Done
Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2017 216 pages
4.58
1k+ ratings
Indigenous
Politics
Social Justice
Reading with Patrick Summary
Reading with Patrick
A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship
by Michelle Kuo 2017 296 pages
4.15
5k+ ratings
Memoir
Education
Biography
Viral Justice Summary
Viral Justice
How We Grow the World We Want
by Ruha Benjamin 2022 392 pages
4.45
1k+ ratings
Social Justice
Race
Politics
Native Son Summary
Native Son
by Richard Wright 1940 504 pages
4.03
100k+ ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Race
Tangled Up in Blue Summary
Tangled Up in Blue
Policing the American City
by Rosa Brooks 2021 384 pages
4.07
1k+ ratings
Politics
Memoir
Social Justice
Blindspot Summary
Blindspot
Hidden Biases of Good People
by Mahzarin R. Banaji 2013 254 pages
3.72
6k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Anti Racist
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too Summary
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too
Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education
by Christopher Emdin 2016 232 pages
4.08
4k+ ratings
Education
Teaching
Social Justice
The Spook Who Sat by the Door Summary
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
by Sam Greenlee 1969 256 pages
4.35
3k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Race
Classics
How to Be an Antiracist Summary
How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi 2019 305 pages
4.37
100k+ ratings
Race
Social Justice
Politics
Is Everyone Really Equal? Summary
Is Everyone Really Equal?
An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education
by Γ–zlem Sensoy 2011 240 pages
4.07
1k+ ratings
Education
Social Justice
Race
Hood Feminism Summary
Hood Feminism
Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
by Mikki Kendall 2020 267 pages
4.37
57k+ ratings
Feminism
Race
Social Justice
My Grandmother's Hands Summary
My Grandmother's Hands
Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
by Resmaa Menakem 2017 300 pages
4.39
10k+ ratings
Psychology
Race
Social Justice
America's Original Sin Summary
America's Original Sin
Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
by Jim Wallis 2016 238 pages
4.08
1k+ ratings
Race
History
Anti Racist
Are Prisons Obsolete? Summary
Are Prisons Obsolete?
by Angela Y. Davis 2003 128 pages
4.52
27k+ ratings
Politics
Race
Social Justice
How the Word Is Passed Summary
How the Word Is Passed
A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by Clint Smith 2021 336 pages
4.71
36k+ ratings
History
Race
Social Justice
Africa Is Not a Country Summary
Africa Is Not a Country
Notes on a Bright Continent
by Dipo Faloyin 2022 385 pages
4.42
7k+ ratings
History
Africa
Politics
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism Summary
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
by Angela Y. Davis 1998 464 pages
4.28
1k+ ratings
Music
Feminism
History
DEI Deconstructed Summary
DEI Deconstructed
Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right
by Lily Zheng 2022 341 pages
4.29
500+ ratings
Business
Leadership
Social Justice
Well-Read Black Girl Summary
Well-Read Black Girl
Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
by Glory Edim 2018 201 pages
4.37
6k+ ratings
Essays
Feminism
Race
Roots Summary
Roots
The Saga of an American Family
by Alex Haley 1976 729 pages
4.44
100k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Classics
Historical
Race After Technology Summary
Race After Technology
Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
by Ruha Benjamin 2019 258 pages
4.27
2k+ ratings
Race
Technology
Politics
Learning from the Germans Summary
Learning from the Germans
Race and the Memory of Evil
by Susan Neiman 2019 434 pages
4.22
1k+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
Go Tell It on the Mountain Summary
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin 1953 256 pages
4.05
74k+ ratings
Classics
African American
Race
Dear Martin Summary
Dear Martin
by Nic Stone 2017 224 pages
4.34
82k+ ratings
Young Adult
Contemporary
Realistic Fiction
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Summary
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Martin Luther King Jr. 1986 400 pages
4.34
23k+ ratings
Biography
History
Autobiography
Eloquent Rage Summary
Eloquent Rage
A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
by Brittney Cooper 2018 288 pages
4.39
13k+ ratings
Feminism
Race
Essays
The Privileged Poor Summary
The Privileged Poor
How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
by Anthony Abraham Jack 2019 288 pages
4.25
2k+ ratings
Education
Sociology
Social Justice
The Second Founding Summary
The Second Founding
How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
by Eric Foner 2019 224 pages
4.23
2k+ ratings
History
American History
Civil War
The Skin We're In Summary
The Skin We're In
A Year of Black Resistance and Power
by Desmond Cole 2020 248 pages
4.45
10k+ ratings
Canada
Race
Memoir
Read This to Get Smarter Summary
Read This to Get Smarter
About Race, Class, Gender, Disability, and More
by Blair Imani 2021 192 pages
4.28
1k+ ratings
Social Justice
Feminism
Disability
Teaching to Transgress Summary
Teaching to Transgress
Education as the Practice of Freedom
by bell hooks 1994 216 pages
4.45
11k+ ratings
Teaching
Feminism
Social Justice
The Sum of Us Summary
The Sum of Us
What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
by Heather McGhee 2021 415 pages
4.63
19k+ ratings
Race
History
Politics
Warriors Don't Cry Summary
Warriors Don't Cry
A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
by Melba Pattillo Beals 1994 312 pages
4.17
15k+ ratings
History
Memoir
School
Between Barack and a Hard Place Summary
Between Barack and a Hard Place
Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama
by Tim Wise 2009 159 pages
4.15
500+ ratings
Race
Politics
Anti Racist
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