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So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,743 ratings — published 2018
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,149 ratings — published 2015
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,719 ratings — published 1981
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,584 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 — 174,408 ratings — published 2018
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,934 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 — 120,435 ratings — published 2010
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,995 ratings — published 2019
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 7 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.55 — 130,095 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 — 27,588 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 — 37,626 ratings — published 2015
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,961 ratings — published 1903
The Racial Contract (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,904 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 — 3,728 ratings — published 2003
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.37 — 299,701 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 — 897 ratings — published 1997
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.52 — 167,952 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 — 7,050 ratings — published 2019
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,447 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 — 30,808 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 4.44 — 48,556 ratings — published 2017
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,119 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 — 5,583 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 — 2,385 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 — 39,326 ratings — published 2016
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,401 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 4.62 — 22,504 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 — 5,396 ratings — published 1997
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,791 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 — 66,160 ratings — published 2020
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 44,970 ratings — published 2020
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,338 ratings — published 2017
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.49 — 26,047 ratings — published 2018
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.45 — 166,449 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 — 4,816 ratings — published 2017
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,305 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 — 102,206 ratings — published 2017
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,042,880 ratings — published 2017
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,666 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 — 281 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 4.11 — 383 ratings — published 1957
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,395 ratings — published 2011
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,387 ratings — published 1993
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,241 ratings — published 2022
Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.54 — 589 ratings — published 1971
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 14,149 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 — 5,287 ratings — published 2019
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,149 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 — 4,089 ratings — published 2016
The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.55 — 497 ratings — published
“The patriarchal authoritarian sexual order that resulted from the revolutionary processes of latter-day matriarchy (economic independence of the chief's family from the maternal gens, a growing exchange of goods between the tribes, development of the means of production, etc.) becomes the primary basis of authoritarian ideology by depriving the women, children, and adolescents of their sexual freedom, making a commodity of sex and placing sexual interests in the service of economic subjugation. From now on, sexuality is indeed distorted; it becomes diabolical and demonic and has to be curbed. In terms of patriarchal demands, the innocent sensuousness of matriarchy appears as the lascivious unchaining of dark powers. The Dionysian becomes "sinful yearning," which patriarchal culture can conceive of only as something chaotic and "dirty." Surrounded by and imbued with human sexual structures that have become distorted and lascivious, patriarchal man is shackled for the first time in an ideology in which sexual and dirty, sexual and vulgar or demonic, became inseparable associations.”
― The Mass Psychology of Fascism
― The Mass Psychology of Fascism
“Nor will arguments be of any use against a fascist who is narcissistically convinced of the supreme superiority of his Teutonism, if only because he operates with irrational feelings and not with arguments. Hence, it would be hopeless to try to prove to a fascist that black people and Italians are not racially "inferior" to the Teutons. He feels himself to be "superior," and that's the end of it. The race theory can be refuted only by exposing its irrational functions, of which there are essentially two: that of giving expression to certain unconscious and emotional currents prevalent in the nationalistically disposed man and of concealing certain psychic tendencies.”
― The Mass Psychology of Fascism
― The Mass Psychology of Fascism