Race Book Summaries

Jesus and the Disinherited Summary
Jesus and the Disinherited
by Howard Thurman 1949 102 pages
4.51
6k+ ratings
Theology
Religion
Christian
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
4.62
20k+ ratings
Race
History
Politics
Stamped Summary
Stamped
Racism, Antiracism, and You
by Jason Reynolds 2020 294 pages
4.47
53k+ ratings
History
Race
Social Justice
Ghetto Summary
Ghetto
The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
by Mitchell Duneier 2015 304 pages
3.74
500+ ratings
History
Sociology
Race
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Summary
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
by Joy DeGruy Leary 2005 235 pages
4.49
2k+ ratings
History
Race
Social Justice
We Are Not Yet Equal Summary
We Are Not Yet Equal
Understanding Our Racial Divide
by Carol Anderson 2018 270 pages
4.39
500+ ratings
History
Race
Social Justice
Hitler's American Model Summary
Hitler's American Model
The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
by James Q. Whitman 2017 208 pages
3.91
1k+ ratings
History
Politics
Race
Where We Stand Summary
Where We Stand
Class Matters
by bell hooks 2000 164 pages
4.23
2k+ ratings
Feminism
Politics
Social Justice
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
Social Justice
Women, Race & Class Summary
Women, Race & Class
by Angela Y. Davis 1981 271 pages
4.59
32k+ ratings
Feminism
Politics
History
Invisible Man Summary
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison 1952 581 pages
3.92
100k+ ratings
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
Sister Outsider Summary
Sister Outsider
Essays and Speeches
by Audre Lorde 1984 190 pages
4.53
39k+ ratings
Feminism
Essays
Race
"They Take Our Jobs!" Summary
"They Take Our Jobs!"
And 20 Other Myths about Immigration
by Aviva Chomsky 2007 264 pages
4.06
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
The Black Kids Summary
The Black Kids
by Christina Hammonds Reed 2020
4.03
10k+ ratings
Young Adult
Historical Fiction
Contemporary
Biased Summary
Biased
Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
by Jennifer L. Eberhardt 2019 350 pages
4.33
8k+ ratings
Psychology
Race
Social Justice
Decolonial Daughter Summary
Decolonial Daughter
Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son
by Lesley-Ann Brown 2018 231 pages
4.13
50+ ratings
Memoir
Race
Essays
Black Magic Summary
Black Magic
What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
by Chad Sanders 2021 287 pages
4.34
100+ ratings
Race
Leadership
History
Message to the Blackman in America Summary
Message to the Blackman in America
by Elijah Muhammad 1965 386 pages
4.45
500+ ratings
Religion
Race
Islam
The Beautiful Community Summary
The Beautiful Community
Unity, Diversity, and the Church at Its Best
by Irwyn L. Ince Jr. 2020 176 pages
4.23
500+ ratings
Theology
Christian
Race
How to Argue With a Racist Summary
How to Argue With a Racist
What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
by Adam Rutherford 2020 224 pages
3.90
6k+ ratings
Science
Race
Politics
Four Hundred Souls Summary
Four Hundred Souls
A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
by Ibram X. Kendi 2021 504 pages
4.56
10k+ ratings
History
Race
Social Justice
Everyone Is African Summary
Everyone Is African
How Science Explodes the Myth of Race
by Daniel J. Fairbanks 2015 191 pages
4.09
100+ ratings
Science
Race
History
Healing Resistance Summary
Healing Resistance
A Radically Different Response to Harm
by Kazu Haga 2020 297 pages
4.64
100+ ratings
Social Justice
Activism
Politics
Lose Your Mother Summary
Lose Your Mother
A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
by Saidiya Hartman 2007 288 pages
4.29
2k+ ratings
History
Memoir
Race
Say the Right Thing Summary
Say the Right Thing
How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice
by Kenji Yoshino 2023 230 pages
4.28
500+ ratings
Social Justice
Race
Self Help
For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts Summary
For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts
A Love Letter to Women of Color
by Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez 2021 272 pages
4.47
3k+ ratings
Feminism
Memoir
Race
The Trouble with Diversity Summary
The Trouble with Diversity
How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
by Walter Benn Michaels 2006 256 pages
3.60
500+ ratings
Politics
Sociology
Race
Malcolm X Summary
Malcolm X
A Life of Reinvention
by Manning Marable 2011 608 pages
4.18
19k+ ratings
Biography
History
Race
The Doctor and the Saint Summary
The Doctor and the Saint
The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate
by Arundhati Roy 2017 184 pages
4.32
2k+ ratings
India
History
Politics
Bad Mexicans Summary
Bad Mexicans
Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
by Kelly Lytle Hernández 2022 372 pages
4.19
2k+ ratings
History
Politics
Race
Fire Shut Up in My Bones Summary
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
by Charles M. Blow 2014 228 pages
4.01
4k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
African American
The Grift Summary
The Grift
The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
by Clay Cane 2024 400 pages
4.27
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Race
Americanah Summary
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013 477 pages
4.32
300k+ ratings
Book Club
Africa
Contemporary
Undoing Border Imperialism Summary
Undoing Border Imperialism
by Harsha Walia 2013 340 pages
4.52
500+ ratings
Politics
Race
Activism
How to Be Black Summary
How to Be Black
by Baratunde R. Thurston 2012 254 pages
3.90
8k+ ratings
Humor
Memoir
Race
A More Beautiful and Terrible History Summary
A More Beautiful and Terrible History
The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
by Jeanne Theoharis 2018 278 pages
4.32
500+ ratings
History
Race
Politics
Between the World and Me Summary
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates 2015 152 pages
4.40
300k+ ratings
Memoir
Race
History
We Real Cool Summary
We Real Cool
Black Men and Masculinity
by bell hooks 2003 184 pages
4.26
1k+ ratings
Feminism
Race
Gender
The Beautiful Struggle Summary
The Beautiful Struggle
A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
by Ta-Nehisi Coates 2008 227 pages
4.08
10k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Race
Red Skin, White Masks Summary
Red Skin, White Masks
Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
by Glen Sean Coulthard 2014 256 pages
4.48
500+ ratings
Indigenous
Politics
History
The Warmth of Other Suns Summary
The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson 2010 622 pages
4.48
100k+ ratings
History
Race
Book Club
Rosa Parks Summary
Rosa Parks
My Story
by Rosa Parks 1948 188 pages
4.18
2k+ ratings
Biography
History
Memoir
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man Summary
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
by Emmanuel Acho 2020 256 pages
4.38
28k+ ratings
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
Docile Summary
Docile
Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl
by Hyeseung Song 2024 304 pages
4.02
500+ ratings
Memoir
Asian Literature
Mental Health
The Good Immigrant Summary
The Good Immigrant
26 Writers Reflect on America
by Nikesh Shukla 2019 336 pages
4.25
2k+ ratings
Essays
Race
Short Stories
Nice Racism Summary
Nice Racism
How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
by Robin DiAngelo 2021 220 pages
3.95
2k+ ratings
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
Thick Summary
Thick
And Other Essays
by Tressie McMillan Cottom 2019 248 pages
4.43
17k+ ratings
Essays
Feminism
Race
The Mis-Education of the Negro Summary
The Mis-Education of the Negro
by Carter G. Woodson 1933 215 pages
4.49
9k+ ratings
History
Education
Race
My Broken Language Summary
My Broken Language
by Quiara Alegría Hudes 2021 336 pages
4.20
3k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
White Feminism Summary
White Feminism
From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
by Koa Beck 2021 300 pages
4.25
2k+ ratings
Feminism
History
Race
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