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