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The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as racial)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,108,887 ratings — published 2009
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as racial)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,153,962 ratings — published 1960
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 11 times as racial)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,734 ratings — published 2018
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as racial)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,625 ratings — published 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as racial)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,876 ratings — published 2010
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as racial)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,047,725 ratings — published 2017
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as racial)
avg rating 4.37 — 301,530 ratings — published 1965
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as racial)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,233 ratings — published 2019
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as racial)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,171 ratings — published 2016
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as racial)
avg rating 4.37 — 12,540 ratings — published 2017
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as racial)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,970 ratings — published 2018
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as racial)
avg rating 4.11 — 887,919 ratings — published 2020
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as racial)
avg rating 4.46 — 55,313 ratings — published 2020
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as racial)
avg rating 3.77 — 590,835 ratings — published 2019
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as racial)
avg rating 4.48 — 854,914 ratings — published 2016
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as racial)
avg rating 4.06 — 462,518 ratings — published 2016
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as racial)
avg rating 4.00 — 402,605 ratings — published 1937
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as racial)
avg rating 4.55 — 131,527 ratings — published 1963
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as racial)
avg rating 4.28 — 776,100 ratings — published 1982
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 4.52 — 169,534 ratings — published 2020
Interior Chinatown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 3.92 — 76,639 ratings — published 2020
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,451 ratings — published 2017
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,488 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,996 ratings — published 2017
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 3.93 — 207,507 ratings — published 1952
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 4.14 — 833,157 ratings — published 2010
Snow Falling on Cedars (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 3.86 — 197,618 ratings — published 1994
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as racial)
avg rating 4.31 — 298,204 ratings — published 1979
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.04 — 251,314 ratings — published 2021
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,925 ratings — published 1984
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.31 — 46,105 ratings — published 1903
Luster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 3.49 — 115,254 ratings — published 2020
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.59 — 37,105 ratings — published 1981
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.49 — 13,084 ratings — published 2019
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,898 ratings — published 2020
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.31 — 428,291 ratings — published 2013
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,392 ratings — published 1971
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,638 ratings — published 1997
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.25 — 329,502 ratings — published 2019
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.32 — 87,349 ratings — published 2017
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.14 — 328,778 ratings — published 1970
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.62 — 273,808 ratings — published 2014
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.48 — 123,054 ratings — published 2010
Black Like Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 4.11 — 70,507 ratings — published 1961
On Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial)
avg rating 3.79 — 94,205 ratings — published 2005
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as racial)
avg rating 4.30 — 600,777 ratings — published 1969
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as racial)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,186,655 ratings — published 2023
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as racial)
avg rating 4.34 — 703,831 ratings — published 2017
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as racial)
avg rating 4.30 — 214,047 ratings — published 2021
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as racial)
avg rating 4.46 — 432,307 ratings — published 2016
“It wasn’t until 2000 that the Census Bureau started letting people choose more than one race category to describe themselves, and
it still only recognizes five standard racial categories: white, black/African-American,
American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander.”
― Holocaust and Human Behavior
it still only recognizes five standard racial categories: white, black/African-American,
American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander.”
― Holocaust and Human Behavior
“The term "racist" comes from the word "racialist": Someone that sees the world from a racial prism.”
― From a "Race of Masters" to a "Master Race": 1948 to 1848
― From a "Race of Masters" to a "Master Race": 1948 to 1848
