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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as activist)
avg rating 4.16 — 628,047 ratings — published 2012
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as activist)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,947 ratings — published 2019
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as activist)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,020,957 ratings — published 2017
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,043 ratings — published 2022
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.51 — 19,535 ratings — published 1981
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.16 — 172,854 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,096 ratings — published 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,386 ratings — published 2010
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.29 — 111,595 ratings — published 2017
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.34 — 229,672 ratings — published 2025
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.46 — 14,894 ratings — published 2016
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.37 — 293,744 ratings — published 1965
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.55 — 124,231 ratings — published 1963
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.70 — 40,483 ratings — published 2021
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.09 — 268,313 ratings — published 1980
All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,476 ratings — published 2020
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,294 ratings — published 1997
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,546 ratings — published 2020
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,330 ratings — published 2017
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.62 — 265,050 ratings — published 2014
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 3.85 — 27,939 ratings — published 2019
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,069 ratings — published 2017
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.39 — 333,989 ratings — published 2012
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.40 — 369,923 ratings — published 2015
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.31 — 278,715 ratings — published 1979
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.59 — 52,432 ratings — published 2025
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.13 — 136,390 ratings — published 1845
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,445 ratings — published 2015
Laut Bercerita (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.61 — 25,726 ratings — published 2017
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.61 — 24,841 ratings — published 2019
Indigo (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,369 ratings — published 1996
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.11 — 96,748 ratings — published 2023
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,739 ratings — published 2024
Antiracist Baby (Board Book)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,020 ratings — published 2020
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,591 ratings — published 2024
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.38 — 11,903 ratings — published 2017
Sometimes People March (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.35 — 637 ratings — published 2020
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.25 — 17,236 ratings — published 2018
Like a Love Story (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.26 — 16,011 ratings — published 2019
The Artivist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.38 — 525 ratings — published 2023
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.74 — 73,976 ratings — published 2023
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,143 ratings — published 2022
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.26 — 103,361 ratings — published 1970
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.50 — 177,652 ratings — published 2013
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.86 — 43,138 ratings — published 2020
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.11 — 199,875 ratings — published 2018
Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.01 — 8,084 ratings — published 2019
A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.38 — 208 ratings — published 2022
Fighting for YES!: The Story of Disability Rights Activist Judith Heumann (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.41 — 393 ratings — published 2022
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.63 — 6,040 ratings — published 2021
“To change the game, hire a game-changer. Hire the one who moves the needle. Skip that, and it's two steps forward, two steps back — forever.”
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“What can we learn from women like Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday that we may not be able to learn from Ida B. Wells, Anna Julia Cooper, and Mary Church Terrell? If we were beginning to appreciate the blasphemies of fictionalized blues women - especially their outrageous politics of sexuality - and the knowledge that might be gleaned from their lives about the possibilities of transforming gender relations within black communities, perhaps we also could benefit from a look at the artistic contributions of the original blues women.”
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