Race


New Releases Tagged "Race"

Next Time Will Be Our Turn
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
Cronus (The Time Traveler's Passport)
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
Minor Black Figures
The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding
Yellowface
James
The Vanishing Half
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Razorblade Tears
Horse
Finding Me
All the Sinners Bleed
The Personal Librarian
Good Dirt
Dream Count
Cronus (The Time Traveler's Passport)
Ring Shout
Black Cake
Detroit by Charlie LeDuffMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesDetroit by Dan GeorgakasDetroit City Is the Place to Be by Mark BinelliOnce In A Great City by David Maraniss
Detroit (fiction and nonfiction)
165 books — 69 voters
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichEvicted by Matthew DesmondJourney to the West by Biao  WangMaid by Stephanie  LandThe Working Poor by David K. Shipler
Books on Poverty and Inequality
218 books — 116 voters

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexiePerfect Chemistry by Simone ElkelesLiving Violet by Jaime ReedHarper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird by Christopher SergelJulie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
YA Books With Minorities
273 books — 166 voters


Between the World and Me
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
So You Want to Talk About Race
How to Be an Antiracist
The Hate U Give
The Fire Next Time
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
The Vanishing Half
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Just Mercy
The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out this straightness. You're always battling to make your hair do what it wasn't meant to do. ...more
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

Toni Morrison
I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of Dublin. Never. And I don't know why I should be asked to explain your life to you. We have splendid writers to do that, but I am not one of them. It is that business of being universal, a word hopelessly stripped of meaning for me. Faulkner wrote what I suppose could be called regional literature and had it published all over the world. That's what ...more
Toni Morrison

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