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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,826 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 — 174,561 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,044,913 ratings — published 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,134,242 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 — 120,622 ratings — published 2010
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,101,955 ratings — published 2009
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.52 — 168,575 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,093 ratings — published 2019
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,816 ratings — published 2018
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.11 — 885,405 ratings — published 2020
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.62 — 272,819 ratings — published 2014
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.55 — 130,652 ratings — published 1963
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,391 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 — 122,615 ratings — published 2010
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.48 — 850,478 ratings — published 2016
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.31 — 427,121 ratings — published 2013
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.13 — 830,181 ratings — published 2010
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.77 — 589,885 ratings — published 2019
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.06 — 460,765 ratings — published 2016
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,611 ratings — published 1997
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 48 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.25 — 327,481 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 — 48,753 ratings — published 2017
Small Great Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.36 — 462,019 ratings — published 2016
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.37 — 300,518 ratings — published 1965
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.41 — 605,719 ratings — published 2024
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.46 — 430,028 ratings — published 2016
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.46 — 55,246 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 — 74,333 ratings — published 2018
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.93 — 207,064 ratings — published 1952
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.31 — 296,085 ratings — published 1979
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 — 136,752 ratings — published 1996
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.32 — 87,205 ratings — published 2017
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.99 — 515,785 ratings — published 1987
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,374,016 ratings — published 2001
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.31 — 46,029 ratings — published 1903
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.14 — 325,436 ratings — published 1970
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.90 — 343,459 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 — 42,610 ratings — published 2021
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.28 — 774,226 ratings — published 1982
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.14 — 139,193 ratings — published 1845
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.28 — 51,489 ratings — published 2015
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.31 — 296,903 ratings — published 2015
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.05 — 107,933 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 — 102,320 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 — 26,077 ratings — published 2018
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.92 — 247,385 ratings — published 1852
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.04 — 249,716 ratings — published 2021
Black Like Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.11 — 70,411 ratings — published 1961
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 — 30,836 ratings — published 2020
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,147 ratings — published 2016
“This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America”
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“Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red gums ready for their sweet white blood. In a way, he thought, they were right. The more coloredpeople spent their strength trying to convince them how gentle they were, how clever and loving, how human, the more they used themselves up to persuade whites of something Negroes believed could not be questioned, the deeper and more tangled the jungle grew inside. But it wasn’t the jungle blacks brought with them to this place from the other (livable) place. It was the jungle whitefolks planted in them. And it grew. It spread. In, through and after life, it spread, until it invaded the whites who had made it. Touched them every one. Changed and altered them. Made them bloody, silly, worse than even they wanted to be, so scared were they of the jungle they had made. The screaming baboon lived under their own white skin; the red gums were their own.”
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