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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2020 times as race)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,545 ratings — published 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1723 times as race)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,539 ratings — published 2010
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 1564 times as race)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,480 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1532 times as race)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,774 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1453 times as race)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,049 ratings — published 2019
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1237 times as race)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,044,032 ratings — published 2017
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 1205 times as race)
avg rating 4.55 — 130,404 ratings — published 1963
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1105 times as race)
avg rating 4.52 — 168,252 ratings — published 2020
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1081 times as race)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,284 ratings — published 2017
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1013 times as race)
avg rating 4.11 — 884,561 ratings — published 2020
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 995 times as race)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,359 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 881 times as race)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,678 ratings — published 2017
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 844 times as race)
avg rating 4.48 — 122,447 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 827 times as race)
avg rating 4.62 — 272,488 ratings — published 2014
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 773 times as race)
avg rating 4.37 — 300,123 ratings — published 1965
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 772 times as race)
avg rating 4.48 — 848,901 ratings — published 2016
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 753 times as race)
avg rating 4.31 — 426,768 ratings — published 2013
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 717 times as race)
avg rating 4.14 — 324,332 ratings — published 1970
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 715 times as race)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,600 ratings — published 1997
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 703 times as race)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,127,971 ratings — published 1960
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 702 times as race)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,827 ratings — published 1981
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 688 times as race)
avg rating 4.37 — 74,309 ratings — published 2018
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 684 times as race)
avg rating 4.06 — 460,152 ratings — published 2016
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 671 times as race)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,245 ratings — published 2020
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 664 times as race)
avg rating 3.77 — 589,555 ratings — published 2019
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 632 times as race)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,743 ratings — published 1984
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 619 times as race)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,138 ratings — published 2016
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 610 times as race)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,827 ratings — published 2020
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 604 times as race)
avg rating 4.47 — 429,249 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 593 times as race)
avg rating 4.28 — 773,608 ratings — published 1982
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 577 times as race)
avg rating 4.30 — 598,651 ratings — published 1969
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 572 times as race)
avg rating 4.31 — 295,386 ratings — published 1979
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 565 times as race)
avg rating 4.31 — 46,002 ratings — published 1903
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 560 times as race)
avg rating 4.25 — 326,778 ratings — published 2019
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 553 times as race)
avg rating 3.93 — 206,920 ratings — published 1952
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 541 times as race)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,698 ratings — published 2015
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 541 times as race)
avg rating 4.25 — 53,186 ratings — published 2014
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 541 times as race)
avg rating 3.99 — 515,045 ratings — published 1987
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 527 times as race)
avg rating 4.13 — 829,309 ratings — published 2010
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 520 times as race)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,344 ratings — published 1981
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 511 times as race)
avg rating 4.49 — 26,059 ratings — published 2018
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 466 times as race)
avg rating 4.69 — 42,541 ratings — published 2021
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 456 times as race)
avg rating 4.18 — 45,004 ratings — published 2020
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 455 times as race)
avg rating 3.91 — 86,418 ratings — published 1929
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 447 times as race)
avg rating 4.46 — 55,227 ratings — published 2020
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 431 times as race)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,171,266 ratings — published 2023
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 431 times as race)
avg rating 4.00 — 400,926 ratings — published 1937
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 424 times as race)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,354 ratings — published 2017
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 422 times as race)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,099,581 ratings — published 2009
“I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
― Letter from the Birmingham Jail
― Letter from the Birmingham Jail
“Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
