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
Brown Enough
True Stories About Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America
Memoir
Race
Social Justice
Full Frontal Feminism
Feminism
Gender Studies
Gender
Democracy and Social Ethics
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Taking on the Plastics Crisis
Science
Social Justice
Activism
We Need New Stories
Politics
Feminism
Essays
Medicare for All
A Citizen's Guide
Politics
Health Care
Economics
When They Call You a Terrorist
A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Memoir
Race
Social Justice
The Black History of the White House
History
American History
Politics
Stolen Pride
Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
Politics
Sociology
History
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Race
Politics
History
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
How White People Profit from Identity Politics
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
Pedagogy of Freedom
Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
Education
Philosophy
Politics
Friendship at the Margins
Discovering Mutuality in Service and Mission
Theology
Christian
Faith
Palaces for the People
How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
Sociology
Politics
Urban Planning
White Poverty
How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
Politics
History
Social Justice
The End of Policing
Politics
Social Justice
History
This Is an Uprising
How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century
Politics
Activism
Social Justice
Ain't No Makin' It
Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
Sociology
Education
School
Methodology of the Oppressed
Feminism
Theory
Academic
A People's Guide to Capitalism
An Introduction to Marxist Economics
Economics
Politics
History
Being Black
Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace
Buddhism
Spirituality
Race
Manifesta
Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
Feminism
Gender
Politics
Give a Sh*t
Do Good. Live Better. Save the Planet.
Sustainability
Environment
Self Help
The Art of Political Murder
Who Killed the Bishop?
History
Politics
True Crime
Unsettling Truths
The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
History
Race
Theology
