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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.40 — 375,038 ratings — published 2015
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 109 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,147 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,039,279 ratings — published 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,088,045 ratings — published 1960
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,096 ratings — published 2010
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,085,143 ratings — published 2009
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.52 — 167,197 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,850 ratings — published 2019
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,650 ratings — published 2018
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.11 — 880,238 ratings — published 2020
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 67 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.55 — 128,960 ratings — published 1963
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.62 — 270,841 ratings — published 2014
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,238 ratings — published 2016
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.48 — 121,549 ratings — published 2010
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.48 — 841,122 ratings — published 2016
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.31 — 424,336 ratings — published 2013
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.13 — 825,191 ratings — published 2010
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.77 — 587,724 ratings — published 2019
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,538 ratings — published 1997
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 48 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.25 — 322,806 ratings — published 2019
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,227 ratings — published 2017
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.06 — 457,386 ratings — published 2016
Small Great Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.36 — 457,388 ratings — published 2016
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.37 — 298,541 ratings — published 1965
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.41 — 590,144 ratings — published 2024
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.47 — 424,876 ratings — published 2016
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.46 — 55,136 ratings — published 2020
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.37 — 74,196 ratings — published 2018
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.92 — 206,191 ratings — published 1952
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.16 — 136,192 ratings — published 1996
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.32 — 86,952 ratings — published 2017
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.99 — 510,775 ratings — published 1987
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.31 — 291,360 ratings — published 1979
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,370,361 ratings — published 2001
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,850 ratings — published 1903
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.14 — 318,941 ratings — published 1970
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.90 — 340,018 ratings — published 2023
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.69 — 42,072 ratings — published 2021
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.28 — 770,151 ratings — published 1982
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.31 — 295,829 ratings — published 2015
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,286 ratings — published 1845
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.28 — 51,297 ratings — published 2015
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.05 — 107,449 ratings — published 1940
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,054 ratings — published 2017
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.49 — 26,011 ratings — published 2018
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.04 — 245,497 ratings — published 2021
Black Like Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.11 — 70,250 ratings — published 1961
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.92 — 246,529 ratings — published 1852
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,777 ratings — published 2020
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,091 ratings — published 2016
“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you; we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs on the reasons they are dying.”
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“There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that they must accept you. The terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love. For these innocent people have no other hope. They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it. They have had to believe for many years, and for innumerable reasons, that black men are inferior to white men. Many of them, indeed, know better, but, as you will discover, people find it very difficult to act on what they know.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
