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
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
A Radical Democratic Vision
History
Biography
Race
One Person, No Vote
How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
Politics
History
Race
The Rage of a Privileged Class
Race
Sociology
Politics
The Person You Mean to Be
How Good People Fight Bias
Psychology
Self Help
Race
Seen, Heard, and Paid
The New Work Rules for the Marginalized
Business
Self Help
Productivity
The Conversation
How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations
Race
Business
Social Justice
A Just Mission
Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality
Christian
Theology
Race
We Need New Stories
Politics
Feminism
Essays
Freedom Farmers
Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
History
Food
Race
Christianity and Critical Race Theory
A Faithful and Constructive Conversation
Theology
Race
Christianity
Brown Enough
True Stories About Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America
Memoir
Race
Social Justice
The Myth of Race
The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
History
Race
Science
The Undocumented Americans
Memoir
Politics
Social Justice
On Fascism
History
Politics
Race
Jews Don't Count
Politics
Jewish
History
When They Call You a Terrorist
A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Memoir
Race
Social Justice
Discrimination and Disparities
Economics
Politics
History
From Here to Equality
Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
History
Politics
Race
American Like Me
Reflections on Life Between Cultures
Essays
Memoir
Short Stories
Self-Portrait in Black and White
Unlearning Race
Memoir
Race
Politics
The Black History of the White House
History
American History
Politics
The Day God Saw Me as Black
Race
Religion
Christianity
Black Woman Redefined
Dispelling Myths and Discovering Fulfillment in the Age of Michelle Obama
Self Help
Feminism
Race
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Politics
Feminism
Race
The Unprotected Class
How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart
Politics
History
Race
The Passing of the Great Race or the Racial Basis of European History
History
Race
Politics
White Malice
The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
History
Africa
Politics
The Memo
What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table
Business
Self Help
Leadership
The Hate Next Door
Undercover within the New Face of White Supremacy
History
Politics
True Crime
White Poverty
How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
Politics
History
Social Justice
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Race
Politics
History
Master Slave Husband Wife
An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
History
Biography
Book Club
The End of Policing
Politics
Social Justice
History
Being Black
Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace
Buddhism
Spirituality
Race
The End of Race Politics
Arguments for a Colorblind America
Politics
Race
History
The Myth of the Twentieth Century
History
Philosophy
Politics
The End of the Myth
From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
History
Politics
American History
Black Like Me
History
Memoir
Classics
Everything and Nothing at Once
A Black Man's Reimagined Soundtrack for the Future
Memoir
Essays
Biography Memoir
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
How White People Profit from Identity Politics
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
The Camp of the Saints
Politics
Literature
Dystopia
Take My Hand
Historical Fiction
Book Club
Historical
Unsettling Truths
The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
History
Race
Theology
