Social Justice
Books in this genre shine a light on society's deepest inequalities and the brave individuals working to address them through protest, policy, and grassroots movements. These powerful works examine systemic barriers around race, class, gender and human rights while offering frameworks for creating meaningful social change and building more equitable communities.
Social Justice Book Summaries
How to Kill a City
Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
Urban Planning
Politics
Urbanism
Who Do We Choose To Be?
Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity
Leadership
Spirituality
Education
Why We Can't Afford the Rich
Economics
Politics
Society
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria?
Race
Education
Social Justice
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
White Feminism
From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
Feminism
History
Race
Black Magic
What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
Race
Leadership
History
Against White Feminism
Notes on Disruption
Feminism
Race
Politics
A World Without Police
How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
Politics
Sociology
Social Justice
What We Owe Each Other
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
Grading for Equity
What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms
Education
Teaching
School
Woke Racism
How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Politics
Race
Sociology
Awakening Together
The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community
Buddhism
Spirituality
Race
Read This to Get Smarter
About Race, Class, Gender, Disability & More
Social Justice
Feminism
Disability
Invisible Child
Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Biography
Social Justice
History
Black American Refugee
Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream
Memoir
Race
Biography Memoir
Caste
The Origins of Our Discontents
History
Race
Social Justice
The Lightmaker's Manifesto
How to Work for Change without Losing Your Joy
Self Help
Social Justice
Activism
Street Data
A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation
Education
Teaching
Leadership
Healing Resistance
A Radically Different Response to Harm
Social Justice
Activism
Politics
Nice Racism
How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
Wine to Water
How One Man Saved Himself While Trying to Save the World
Memoir
Africa
Biography
Young, Gifted and Black
Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students
Education
African American
Social Justice
Lady Justice
Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
Politics
Feminism
History
Rest Is Resistance
A Manifesto
Self Help
Social Justice
Mental Health
The Muslims Are Coming!
Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror
Politics
Islam
Religion
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Politics
Economics
Sociology
The Four Pivots
Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves
Social Justice
Self Help
Politics
Coaching for Equity
Conversations That Change Practice
Education
Teaching
Leadership
The Rage of a Privileged Class
Why Do Prosperouse Blacks Still Have the Blues?
Race
Sociology
Politics
Profit and Punishment
How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice
Politics
Social Justice
History
Brown Enough
Memoir
Race
Anti Racist
Viral Justice
How We Grow the World We Want
Race
Social Justice
Politics
The Equality Machine
Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
Technology
Science
Social Justice
Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education (Equity and Social Justice in Education)
Transforming Classrooms, Shifting Systems
Education
Teaching
Social Justice
White Women
Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better
Race
Social Justice
Feminism
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison
Politics
Sociology
Social Justice
Trust Kids!
Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy
Parenting
Politics
Psychology
DEI Deconstructed
Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right
Business
Leadership
Social Justice
Interrupting Silence
God's Command to Speak Out
Theology
Religion
Church
“You Just Need to Lose Weight”
And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
Health
Social Justice
Feminism
Last Chance in Texas
The Redemption of Criminal Youth
True Crime
Psychology
Social Justice
Where We Stand
Feminism
Politics
Social Justice
It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
Politics
Economics
History
Poverty, by America
Politics
Sociology
History
Notes on Resistance
Politics
History
Social Justice
Women, Race, & Class
Feminism
Race
History
Unshrinking
How to Face Fatphobia
Feminism
Politics
Philosophy
Attack from Within
Politics
History
Technology
Teaching to Transgress
Education as the Practice of Freedom (Harvest in Translation)
Teaching
Feminism
Social Justice