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So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,991 ratings — published 2018
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,671 ratings — published 2015
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.59 — 37,125 ratings — published 1981
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,844 ratings — published 1952
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 10 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,754 ratings — published 2018
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,356 ratings — published 1961
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,898 ratings — published 2010
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,245 ratings — published 2019
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.55 — 131,596 ratings — published 1963
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,638 ratings — published 1997
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,897 ratings — published 2015
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.31 — 46,109 ratings — published 1903
The Racial Contract (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,913 ratings — published 1997
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,743 ratings — published 2003
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.37 — 301,583 ratings — published 1965
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.60 — 912 ratings — published 1997
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.52 — 169,599 ratings — published 2020
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,133 ratings — published 2019
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,726 ratings — published 1987
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,906 ratings — published 2020
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.43 — 49,013 ratings — published 2017
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,171 ratings — published 2016
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,589 ratings — published 1990
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,391 ratings — published 1991
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,491 ratings — published 2016
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,682 ratings — published 1978
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.61 — 22,660 ratings — published 2021
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,424 ratings — published 1997
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,796 ratings — published 2012
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,549 ratings — published 2020
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 45,116 ratings — published 2020
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,389 ratings — published 2017
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.48 — 26,119 ratings — published 2018
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.45 — 166,954 ratings — published 1976
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,836 ratings — published 2017
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,455 ratings — published 1981
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,458 ratings — published 2017
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,047,889 ratings — published 2017
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,930 ratings — published 1984
The Invention of the White Race: Racial Oppression and Social Control, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 282 ratings — published 1994
Black Bourgeoisie: The Book That Brought the Shock of Self-Revelation to Middle-Class Blacks in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 390 ratings — published 1957
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,397 ratings — published 2011
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 437 ratings — published 2007
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,391 ratings — published 1993
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,304 ratings — published 2022
Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.55 — 592 ratings — published 1971
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 14,187 ratings — published 2018
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.40 — 5,353 ratings — published 2019
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,865 ratings — published 2023
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,093 ratings — published 2016
“Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada.”
― Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
― Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
“There are no superior or inferior races. No one is intrinsically inferior or superior. All have the same value as creatures of god. Those who put others down simply want to exploit them.”
― Book of Wisdom
― Book of Wisdom