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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2021 times as race)
avg rating 4.40 — 374,956 ratings — published 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1730 times as race)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,060 ratings — published 2010
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 1560 times as race)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,129 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1529 times as race)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,646 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1448 times as race)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,829 ratings — published 2019
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1232 times as race)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,039,008 ratings — published 2017
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 1204 times as race)
avg rating 4.55 — 128,880 ratings — published 1963
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1100 times as race)
avg rating 4.52 — 167,132 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 — 102,038 ratings — published 2017
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1014 times as race)
avg rating 4.11 — 879,972 ratings — published 2020
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 991 times as race)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,228 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 875 times as race)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,189 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 — 121,496 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 827 times as race)
avg rating 4.62 — 270,733 ratings — published 2014
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 769 times as race)
avg rating 4.48 — 840,635 ratings — published 2016
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 767 times as race)
avg rating 4.37 — 298,424 ratings — published 1965
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 752 times as race)
avg rating 4.31 — 424,130 ratings — published 2013
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 716 times as race)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,532 ratings — published 1997
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 712 times as race)
avg rating 4.14 — 318,629 ratings — published 1970
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 701 times as race)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,085,292 ratings — published 1960
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 698 times as race)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,411 ratings — published 1981
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 683 times as race)
avg rating 4.37 — 74,192 ratings — published 2018
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 677 times as race)
avg rating 4.06 — 457,200 ratings — published 2016
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 668 times as race)
avg rating 4.35 — 65,851 ratings — published 2020
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 660 times as race)
avg rating 3.77 — 587,601 ratings — published 2019
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 629 times as race)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,456 ratings — published 1984
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 616 times as race)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,084 ratings — published 2016
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 608 times as race)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,774 ratings — published 2020
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 606 times as race)
avg rating 4.47 — 424,589 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 591 times as race)
avg rating 4.28 — 769,922 ratings — published 1982
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 574 times as race)
avg rating 4.30 — 595,689 ratings — published 1969
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 569 times as race)
avg rating 4.31 — 291,103 ratings — published 1979
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 560 times as race)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,841 ratings — published 1903
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 552 times as race)
avg rating 3.92 — 206,145 ratings — published 1952
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 551 times as race)
avg rating 4.25 — 322,604 ratings — published 2019
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 541 times as race)
avg rating 3.99 — 510,521 ratings — published 1987
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 540 times as race)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,991 ratings — published 2014
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 538 times as race)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,407 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 524 times as race)
avg rating 4.13 — 824,910 ratings — published 2010
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 517 times as race)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,164 ratings — published 1981
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 512 times as race)
avg rating 4.49 — 26,011 ratings — published 2018
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 464 times as race)
avg rating 4.69 — 42,041 ratings — published 2021
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 455 times as race)
avg rating 4.18 — 44,862 ratings — published 2020
Passing (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 454 times as race)
avg rating 3.91 — 85,440 ratings — published 1929
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 444 times as race)
avg rating 4.46 — 55,131 ratings — published 2020
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 431 times as race)
avg rating 3.99 — 398,688 ratings — published 1937
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 425 times as race)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,146,549 ratings — published 2023
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 422 times as race)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,283 ratings — published 2017
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 422 times as race)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,084,279 ratings — published 2009
“Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.”
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“Today I'm on tell you bout a man from outer space." She just loves hearing about peoples from outer space. Her favorite show on the tee-vee is My Favorite Martian, I pull on my antennae hats I shaped last night out a tin foil, fasten em on our heads. One for her and one for me. We look like we a couple a crazy people in them things.
"One day, a wise Martian come down to Earth to teach us people a thing or two," I say.
"Martian? How big?"
"oh, he about six-two."
"What's his name?"
"Martian Luther King."
She take a deep breath and lean her head down on my shoulder. I feel her three-year-old heart racing against mine, flapping like butterflies on my white uniform.
"He was a real nice Martian, Mister King. Looked just like us, nose, mouth, hair up on his head, but sometime people looked at him funny and sometime, well, I guess sometime people was just downright mean."
I coul get in a lot a trouble telling her these little stories, especially with Mister Leefolt. But Mae Mobley know these our "secret stories".
"Why Aibee? Why was they so mean to him?" she ask.
"Cause he was green.”
― The Help
"One day, a wise Martian come down to Earth to teach us people a thing or two," I say.
"Martian? How big?"
"oh, he about six-two."
"What's his name?"
"Martian Luther King."
She take a deep breath and lean her head down on my shoulder. I feel her three-year-old heart racing against mine, flapping like butterflies on my white uniform.
"He was a real nice Martian, Mister King. Looked just like us, nose, mouth, hair up on his head, but sometime people looked at him funny and sometime, well, I guess sometime people was just downright mean."
I coul get in a lot a trouble telling her these little stories, especially with Mister Leefolt. But Mae Mobley know these our "secret stories".
"Why Aibee? Why was they so mean to him?" she ask.
"Cause he was green.”
― The Help
