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Race Theory Books
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So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,627 ratings — published 2018
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.40 — 374,461 ratings — published 2015
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,275 ratings — published 1981
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 20,309 ratings — published 1952
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,431 ratings — published 1961
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 9 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,040 ratings — published 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,915 ratings — published 2010
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,752 ratings — published 2019
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 7 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.55 — 128,378 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 — 27,514 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 — 37,314 ratings — published 2015
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,808 ratings — published 1903
The Racial Contract (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,896 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 — 3,716 ratings — published 2003
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.37 — 297,959 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 4.59 — 891 ratings — published 1997
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.52 — 166,810 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 — 6,939 ratings — published 2019
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,060 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 — 30,760 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 — 48,066 ratings — published 2017
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,074 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 — 5,578 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 — 2,379 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 — 39,175 ratings — published 2016
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,059 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 — 22,319 ratings — published 2021
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.46 — 5,365 ratings — published 1997
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,788 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 — 65,703 ratings — published 2020
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 44,824 ratings — published 2020
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,279 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 — 26,003 ratings — published 2018
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.45 — 166,110 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 — 4,794 ratings — published 2017
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,105 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 — 101,975 ratings — published 2017
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,036,966 ratings — published 2017
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,359 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 4.12 — 382 ratings — published 1957
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,396 ratings — published 2011
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,380 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 — 4,193 ratings — published 2022
Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.55 — 590 ratings — published 1971
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 14,122 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 — 5,232 ratings — published 2019
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 66,295 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 — 4,081 ratings — published 2016
The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as race-theory)
avg rating 4.55 — 493 ratings — published
“The fundamental reason for the superiority of totalitarian propaganda over the propaganda of other parties and movements is that its content, for the members of the movement at any rate, is no longer an objective issue about which people may have opinions, but has become as real and untouchable an element in their lives as the rules of arithmetic. The organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime. In Nazi Germany, questioning the validity of racism and antisemitism when nothing mattered but race origin, when a career depended upon an “Aryan” physiognomy (Himmler used to select the applicants for the SS from photographs) and the amount of food upon the number of one’s Jewish grandparents, was like questioning the existence of the world.”
― 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