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Racial Equality Books
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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,135 ratings — published 2015
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 6 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,627 ratings — published 2018
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.55 — 130,983 ratings — published 1963
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 3.99 — 516,766 ratings — published 1987
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,046,072 ratings — published 2017
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,857 ratings — published 2018
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,434 ratings — published 2016
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,138 ratings — published 2019
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,702 ratings — published 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.13 — 831,143 ratings — published 2010
Black Like Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.11 — 70,443 ratings — published 1961
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.48 — 26,096 ratings — published 2018
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.14 — 326,706 ratings — published 1970
Black Klansman: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 3.62 — 22,589 ratings — published 2014
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,847 ratings — published 1984
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.61 — 22,602 ratings — published 2021
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.48 — 122,800 ratings — published 2010
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,874 ratings — published 2018
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.52 — 168,946 ratings — published 2020
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 3.77 — 590,243 ratings — published 2019
Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.15 — 95,168 ratings — published 2014
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.05 — 108,015 ratings — published 1940
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.11 — 886,321 ratings — published 2020
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.62 — 273,104 ratings — published 2014
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.28 — 774,927 ratings — published 1982
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.31 — 296,880 ratings — published 1979
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.30 — 599,838 ratings — published 1969
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.37 — 74,364 ratings — published 2018
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,622 ratings — published 1997
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.38 — 14,178 ratings — published 2018
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 3.99 — 152,534 ratings — published 2017
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.32 — 87,251 ratings — published 2017
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 3.84 — 23,784 ratings — published 2016
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,104,550 ratings — published 2009
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,141,795 ratings — published 1960
The Other Side (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.51 — 8,612 ratings — published 2001
Coretta Scott (Library Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,183 ratings — published 2008
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.52 — 9,909 ratings — published 1981
The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,967 ratings — published 2021
White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.22 — 260 ratings — published 2011
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as racial-equality)
avg rating 3.77 — 485,479 ratings — published 2017
Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.02 — 86,905 ratings — published 2001
An American Summer (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.31 — 5,077 ratings — published 2019
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as racial-equality)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,179,572 ratings — published 2023
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,606 ratings — published 2023
House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.26 — 839,233 ratings — published 2024
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.28 — 776 ratings — published 2018
My Son's Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as racial-equality)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,904 ratings — published 1990
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as racial-equality)
avg rating 4.32 — 177,291 ratings — published 2017
Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as racial-equality)
avg rating 3.97 — 24,201 ratings — published 2020
“...We are long overdue for an update to the empirical scientific evidence
that, despite our racial differences, demonstrates humankind’s overarching
shared foundations as biological, cultural, and social beings. Awareness
of the fascinating research unfolding in the arena of nature–nurture and the
human condition promises to be a step in that direction.”
― Science in Black and White: How Biology and Environment Shape Our Racial Divide
that, despite our racial differences, demonstrates humankind’s overarching
shared foundations as biological, cultural, and social beings. Awareness
of the fascinating research unfolding in the arena of nature–nurture and the
human condition promises to be a step in that direction.”
― Science in Black and White: How Biology and Environment Shape Our Racial Divide
“The needs of the black community for adequate jobs, housing, and education can be met only by developing a political strategy that will attract a majority of Americans to a program for social change. There are whites who are unemployed and white workers whose real income is steadily decreasing as the cost of living rises. Both these groups share with blacks the desire for increased and upgraded employment opportunities. Let us build a movement with them. there are whites living in substandard housing and paying exorbitant rents. Their children attend schools that are overcrowded and understaffed. They share with blacks the desire for massively funded programs of housing and education. Let us build a movement with them also. And there are those more affluent whites of liberal persuasion who sincerely desire social justice. They too should be our allies.
These are positive points around which a political majority can be built. Such a strategy is the only means by which black people will achieve social and economic equality within the context of contemporary American society.”
― Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
These are positive points around which a political majority can be built. Such a strategy is the only means by which black people will achieve social and economic equality within the context of contemporary American society.”
― Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
