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How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,070 ratings — published 2019
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 172 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,519 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 169 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,799 ratings — published 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,590 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,690 ratings — published 2015
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,376 ratings — published 2016
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,834 ratings — published 2020
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.55 — 130,535 ratings — published 1963
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.37 — 74,324 ratings — published 2018
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,311 ratings — published 2017
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.52 — 168,414 ratings — published 2020
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,290 ratings — published 2020
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.62 — 272,690 ratings — published 2014
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,607 ratings — published 1997
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.46 — 55,233 ratings — published 2020
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,766 ratings — published 1984
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.49 — 26,072 ratings — published 2018
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,714 ratings — published 2017
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.48 — 122,543 ratings — published 2010
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,044,418 ratings — published 2017
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,144 ratings — published 2016
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.37 — 300,318 ratings — published 1965
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.38 — 14,165 ratings — published 2018
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.38 — 7,524 ratings — published 2020
Heavy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.46 — 46,738 ratings — published 2018
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.00 — 401,105 ratings — published 1937
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.14 — 324,912 ratings — published 1970
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,856 ratings — published 1981
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,359 ratings — published 1981
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,728 ratings — published 2015
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 39 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.37 — 21,894 ratings — published 2014
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,631 ratings — published 2019
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,817 ratings — published 2016
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,276 ratings — published 2010
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.25 — 53,210 ratings — published 2014
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.30 — 598,928 ratings — published 1969
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.18 — 45,008 ratings — published 2020
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,953 ratings — published 2011
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.69 — 42,582 ratings — published 2021
A Black Women's History of the United States (ReVisioning History)
by (shelved 31 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,859 ratings — published 2020
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.61 — 25,985 ratings — published 2019
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.48 — 849,707 ratings — published 2016
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.54 — 13,593 ratings — published 2020
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,678 ratings — published 2019
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.55 — 11,448 ratings — published 2021
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.38 — 29,649 ratings — published 2020
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.39 — 17,552 ratings — published 2020
Antiracist Baby (Board Book)
by (shelved 27 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,068 ratings — published 2020
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,651 ratings — published 2017
An African American and Latinx History of the United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as anti-racist)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,672 ratings — published 2018
“Black women's leadership memoirs have been a critical site for the articulation of their intellectual and political goals. Less concerned with the interiority of their subjects, this genre afforded Black women, particularly those who emerged during the 1890s, the opportunity to theorize about race and gender politics in ways that their lack of access to producing more formal academic texts did not. (68)”
― Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
― Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
“Educating White People (Sonnet 2272)
The average colored person is ten times
smarter, wiser, braver, and stronger,
than most white people, not because
we are genetically superior,
but because, when an entire planet
is rigged in favor of white colonials
over the black, the brown, the latino,
arab, indian, chinese, turk, and what not,
we have to be exceptional to survive.
White people can be mediocre,
and still respected, glorified even,
but rest of us have to be Ramanujans,
Rumis, Naskars, just to be regarded as human.
Most of the world's geniuses are non-whites,
not because it's genetic, but because, like
white people inherit blonde hair and blue eyes,
or daddy's emeralds, we inherit generational
persecution, and any brain forced to endure
persecution as daily chore, becomes a powerhouse
of apparently supernatural mental faculties.”
― Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
The average colored person is ten times
smarter, wiser, braver, and stronger,
than most white people, not because
we are genetically superior,
but because, when an entire planet
is rigged in favor of white colonials
over the black, the brown, the latino,
arab, indian, chinese, turk, and what not,
we have to be exceptional to survive.
White people can be mediocre,
and still respected, glorified even,
but rest of us have to be Ramanujans,
Rumis, Naskars, just to be regarded as human.
Most of the world's geniuses are non-whites,
not because it's genetic, but because, like
white people inherit blonde hair and blue eyes,
or daddy's emeralds, we inherit generational
persecution, and any brain forced to endure
persecution as daily chore, becomes a powerhouse
of apparently supernatural mental faculties.”
― Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
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