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
Jesus and the Disinherited
Theology
Religion
Christian
The Sum of Us
What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Race
History
Politics
Stamped
Racism, Antiracism, and You
History
Race
Social Justice
Ghetto
The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
History
Sociology
Race
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
History
Race
Social Justice
We Are Not Yet Equal
Understanding Our Racial Divide
History
Race
Social Justice
Hitler's American Model
The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
History
Politics
Race
Where We Stand
Class Matters
Feminism
Politics
Social Justice
Between Barack and a Hard Place
Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama
Race
Politics
Social Justice
Women, Race & Class
Feminism
Politics
History
Invisible Man
Classics
Literature
Historical Fiction
Sister Outsider
Essays and Speeches
Feminism
Essays
Race
"They Take Our Jobs!"
And 20 Other Myths about Immigration
Politics
History
Economics
The Black Kids
Young Adult
Historical Fiction
Contemporary
Biased
Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
Psychology
Race
Social Justice
Decolonial Daughter
Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son
Memoir
Race
Essays
Black Magic
What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
Race
Leadership
History
Message to the Blackman in America
Religion
Race
Islam
The Beautiful Community
Unity, Diversity, and the Church at Its Best
Theology
Christian
Race
How to Argue With a Racist
What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
Science
Race
Politics
Four Hundred Souls
A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
History
Race
Social Justice
Everyone Is African
How Science Explodes the Myth of Race
Science
Race
History
Healing Resistance
A Radically Different Response to Harm
Social Justice
Activism
Politics
Lose Your Mother
A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
History
Memoir
Race
Say the Right Thing
How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice
Social Justice
Race
Self Help
For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts
A Love Letter to Women of Color
Feminism
Memoir
Race
The Trouble with Diversity
How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
Politics
Sociology
Race
Malcolm X
A Life of Reinvention
Biography
History
Race
The Doctor and the Saint
The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate
India
History
Politics
Bad Mexicans
Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
History
Politics
Race
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Memoir
Biography
African American
The Grift
The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
Politics
History
Race
Americanah
Book Club
Africa
Contemporary
Undoing Border Imperialism
Politics
Race
Activism
How to Be Black
Humor
Memoir
Race
A More Beautiful and Terrible History
The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
History
Race
Politics
Between the World and Me
Memoir
Race
History
We Real Cool
Black Men and Masculinity
Feminism
Race
Gender
The Beautiful Struggle
A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
Memoir
Biography
Race
Red Skin, White Masks
Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Indigenous
Politics
History
The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
History
Race
Book Club
Rosa Parks
My Story
Biography
History
Memoir
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
Docile
Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl
Memoir
Asian Literature
Mental Health
The Good Immigrant
26 Writers Reflect on America
Essays
Race
Short Stories
Nice Racism
How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
Thick
And Other Essays
Essays
Feminism
Race
The Mis-Education of the Negro
History
Education
Race
My Broken Language
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
White Feminism
From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
Feminism
History
Race
