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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,076 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 369,182 ratings — published 2015
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,834 ratings — published 2019
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,013 ratings — published 2018
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,973 ratings — published 1981
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 17 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 123,557 ratings — published 1963
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,490 ratings — published 1952
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 163,153 ratings — published 2020
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.43 — 10,186 ratings — published 2007
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 13 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 172,695 ratings — published 2018
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,649 ratings — published 2016
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 19,455 ratings — published 1981
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,234 ratings — published 2017
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 46,572 ratings — published 2017
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 293,182 ratings — published 1965
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,226 ratings — published 1903
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,258 ratings — published 1997
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 118,058 ratings — published 2010
The History of White People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,210 ratings — published 2010
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,305 ratings — published 1984
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 9,817 ratings — published 1981
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,001 ratings — published 2017
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,250 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 809,770 ratings — published 2010
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 32,942 ratings — published 1961
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as race-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 203,124 ratings — published 1952
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 24,698 ratings — published 1955
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.61 — 24,721 ratings — published 2019
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.60 — 31,879 ratings — published 1987
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,493 ratings — published 2020
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 25,756 ratings — published 2018
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.46 — 14,869 ratings — published 2016
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,757 ratings — published 2012
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,685 ratings — published 2003
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 585,312 ratings — published 1969
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,586 ratings — published 1987
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 757,097 ratings — published 1982
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.70 — 40,297 ratings — published 2021
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,946 ratings — published 2018
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 30,548 ratings — published 2003
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,018,834 ratings — published 2017
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,277 ratings — published 2016
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 20,801 ratings — published 2014
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,541 ratings — published 1990
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,184 ratings — published 2014
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,118 ratings — published 1940
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,075 ratings — published 2005
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 30,007 ratings — published 1978
Race Matters (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,968 ratings — published 1993
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,273 ratings — published 1997










