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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2017 times as race)
avg rating 4.40 — 371,670 ratings — published 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1727 times as race)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,962 ratings — published 2010
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 1556 times as race)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,325 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1532 times as race)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,301 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1448 times as race)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,259 ratings — published 2019
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1235 times as race)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,026,886 ratings — published 2017
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 1193 times as race)
avg rating 4.55 — 125,753 ratings — published 1963
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1088 times as race)
avg rating 4.52 — 164,912 ratings — published 2020
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1084 times as race)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,591 ratings — published 2017
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1012 times as race)
avg rating 4.12 — 870,635 ratings — published 2020
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 993 times as race)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,881 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 871 times as race)
avg rating 4.44 — 47,249 ratings — published 2017
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 840 times as race)
avg rating 4.48 — 119,534 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 823 times as race)
avg rating 4.62 — 267,055 ratings — published 2014
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 767 times as race)
avg rating 4.49 — 824,715 ratings — published 2016
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 767 times as race)
avg rating 4.37 — 295,348 ratings — published 1965
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 749 times as race)
avg rating 4.31 — 419,277 ratings — published 2013
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 715 times as race)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,378 ratings — published 1997
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 704 times as race)
avg rating 4.14 — 310,805 ratings — published 1970
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 700 times as race)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,994,933 ratings — published 1960
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 697 times as race)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,571 ratings — published 1981
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 685 times as race)
avg rating 4.37 — 73,908 ratings — published 2018
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 674 times as race)
avg rating 4.06 — 452,005 ratings — published 2016
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 666 times as race)
avg rating 4.35 — 64,833 ratings — published 2020
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 657 times as race)
avg rating 3.77 — 583,065 ratings — published 2019
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 630 times as race)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,823 ratings — published 1984
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 618 times as race)
avg rating 4.46 — 14,959 ratings — published 2016
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 612 times as race)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,614 ratings — published 2020
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 600 times as race)
avg rating 4.47 — 415,156 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 586 times as race)
avg rating 4.28 — 762,426 ratings — published 1982
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 567 times as race)
avg rating 4.30 — 589,741 ratings — published 1969
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 562 times as race)
avg rating 4.31 — 282,630 ratings — published 1979
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 558 times as race)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,493 ratings — published 1903
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 549 times as race)
avg rating 4.25 — 316,225 ratings — published 2019
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 547 times as race)
avg rating 3.92 — 204,404 ratings — published 1952
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 543 times as race)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,528 ratings — published 2014
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 539 times as race)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,796 ratings — published 2015
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 534 times as race)
avg rating 3.98 — 501,160 ratings — published 1987
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 525 times as race)
avg rating 4.13 — 816,368 ratings — published 2010
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 515 times as race)
avg rating 4.49 — 25,869 ratings — published 2018
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 514 times as race)
avg rating 4.51 — 19,767 ratings — published 1981
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 460 times as race)
avg rating 4.70 — 41,022 ratings — published 2021
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 453 times as race)
avg rating 4.18 — 44,493 ratings — published 2020
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 448 times as race)
avg rating 3.92 — 83,390 ratings — published 1929
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 443 times as race)
avg rating 4.46 — 54,867 ratings — published 2020
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 428 times as race)
avg rating 3.99 — 393,631 ratings — published 1937
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 424 times as race)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,140 ratings — published 2017
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 422 times as race)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,054,898 ratings — published 2009
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 420 times as race)
avg rating 4.25 — 269,191 ratings — published 2019
“Once upon a time they was two girls," I say. "one girl had black skin, one girl had white."
Mae Mobley look up at me. She listening.
"Little colored girl say to little white girl, 'How come your skin be so pale?' White girl say, 'I don't know. How come your skin be so black? What you think that mean?'
"But neither one a them little girls knew. So little white girl say, 'Well, let's see. You got hair, I got hair.'"I gives Mae Mobley a little tousle on her head.
"Little colored girl say 'I got a nose, you got a nose.'"I gives her little snout a tweak. She got to reach up and do the same to me.
"Little white girl say, 'I got toes, you got toes.' And I do the little thing with her toes, but she can't get to mine cause I got my white work shoes on.
"'So we's the same. Just a different color', say that little colored girl. The little white girl she agreed and they was friends. The End."
Baby Girl just look at me. Law, that was a sorry story if I ever heard one. Wasn't even no plot to it. But Mae Mobley, she smile and say, "Tell it again.”
― The Help
Mae Mobley look up at me. She listening.
"Little colored girl say to little white girl, 'How come your skin be so pale?' White girl say, 'I don't know. How come your skin be so black? What you think that mean?'
"But neither one a them little girls knew. So little white girl say, 'Well, let's see. You got hair, I got hair.'"I gives Mae Mobley a little tousle on her head.
"Little colored girl say 'I got a nose, you got a nose.'"I gives her little snout a tweak. She got to reach up and do the same to me.
"Little white girl say, 'I got toes, you got toes.' And I do the little thing with her toes, but she can't get to mine cause I got my white work shoes on.
"'So we's the same. Just a different color', say that little colored girl. The little white girl she agreed and they was friends. The End."
Baby Girl just look at me. Law, that was a sorry story if I ever heard one. Wasn't even no plot to it. But Mae Mobley, she smile and say, "Tell it again.”
― The Help
“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
