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Race Theory Books
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So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,787 ratings — published 2018
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,329 ratings — published 1981
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,006 ratings — published 1952
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 11 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 171,800 ratings — published 2018
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.40 — 365,063 ratings — published 2015
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 32,091 ratings — published 1961
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,225 ratings — published 2019
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,100 ratings — published 1997
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 35,446 ratings — published 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.52 — 116,920 ratings — published 2010
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.31 — 44,811 ratings — published 1903
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.52 — 160,481 ratings — published 2020
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,359 ratings — published 2016
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.55 — 120,128 ratings — published 1963
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.37 — 290,285 ratings — published 1965
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,360 ratings — published 2020
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.47 — 14,765 ratings — published 2016
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,507 ratings — published 1978
The Racial Contract (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,843 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 — 3,659 ratings — published 2003
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.60 — 852 ratings — published 1997
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.55 — 12,557 ratings — published 2020
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,437 ratings — published 2019
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.36 — 62,916 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 — 45,707 ratings — published 2017
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,516 ratings — published 1990
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.50 — 19,108 ratings — published 1981
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,356 ratings — published 1991
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 — 21,234 ratings — published 2021
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,733 ratings — published 2012
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.60 — 31,055 ratings — published 1987
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.51 — 29,887 ratings — published 2003
Revolutionary Suicide (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,056 ratings — published 1973
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 43,864 ratings — published 2020
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 30,841 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 — 25,640 ratings — published 2018
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.45 — 164,629 ratings — published 1976
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.47 — 4,697 ratings — published 2017
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.37 — 100,812 ratings — published 2017
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,006,334 ratings — published 2017
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 40,793 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 — 273 ratings — published 1994
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,350 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 — 3,892 ratings — published 2022
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 13,902 ratings — published 2018
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 — 4,053 ratings — published 2016
The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.56 — 461 ratings — published
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.50 — 2,729 ratings — published 2021
Human Zoos: The Invention of the Savage (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 32 ratings — published 2002
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.61 — 24,159 ratings — published 2019
“For an ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history, or the solution for all the "riddles of the universe," or the intimate knowledge of the hidden universal laws which are supposed to rule nature and man. Few ideologies have won enough prominence to survive the hard competitive struggle of persuasion, and only two have come out on top and essentially defeated all others: the ideology which interprets history as an economic struggle of classes, and the other that interprets history as a natural fight of races. The appeal of both to large masses was so strong that they were able to enlist state support and establish themselves as official national doctrines. But far beyond the boundaries within which race-thinking and class-thinking have developed into obligatory patterns of thought, free public opinion has adopted them to such an extent that not only intellectuals but great masses of people will no longer accept a presentation of past or present facts that is not in agreement with either of these views.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“...but I'm also talking about the colonizing of truth, the redesigning of the fabric of reality. I am talking about the imposition of a way of classifying, measuring, and quantifying the world, including everything from time, to temperature, to distance, to weight. All of these things became calculated and bounded by frameworks that were not only European but often peculiarly English ways of understanding reality. Today's activism responds to the world on these terms, operating on terrain already mapped out by white supremacy, Eurocentric logic, and colonialism. This would be less worrying if it was clearly identified, would not pose so grave a danger if there was awareness that the terms of engagement operate within a framework that we need to dissolve. However, that acknowledgement appears to be entirely absent, and we congratulate ourselves on 'speaking truth to power' (often, depressingly, via what we know call 'platform capitalism').”
― What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition – An Empowering Guide to Interrogating Whiteness and Creating Justice
― What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition – An Empowering Guide to Interrogating Whiteness and Creating Justice
