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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,047,181 ratings — published 2017
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,436 ratings — published 2015
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.24 — 53,355 ratings — published 2014
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.62 — 273,557 ratings — published 2014
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,493 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,207 ratings — published 2019
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-activism)
avg rating 3.90 — 4,441 ratings — published 2017
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,962 ratings — published 2008
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.59 — 37,065 ratings — published 1981
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.28 — 51,567 ratings — published 2015
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.52 — 169,336 ratings — published 2020
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.33 — 184,125 ratings — published 2019
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.37 — 74,412 ratings — published 2018
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,864 ratings — published 2015
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 3.77 — 590,651 ratings — published 2019
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,820 ratings — published 2010
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.55 — 131,340 ratings — published 1963
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.16 — 641,561 ratings — published 2012
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 3.73 — 8,846 ratings — published 1971
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,648 ratings — published 2003
Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.49 — 653 ratings — published
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,741 ratings — published 2007
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,788 ratings — published 1988
Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—And How You Can, Too (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,317 ratings — published 2024
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.21 — 9,824 ratings — published 2019
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,431 ratings — published 2017
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.33 — 20,717 ratings — published 2020
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.54 — 13,663 ratings — published 2020
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,478 ratings — published 2016
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.50 — 32,226 ratings — published 2003
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.34 — 54,169 ratings — published 2023
Attack of the Black Rectangles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.18 — 7,079 ratings — published 2022
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,382 ratings — published 2017
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,911 ratings — published 1952
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,926 ratings — published 2018
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.39 — 17,577 ratings — published 2020
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.37 — 171,889 ratings — published 2019
82년생 김지영 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.16 — 202,768 ratings — published 2016
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.43 — 18,565 ratings — published 2020
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.43 — 23,370 ratings — published 2018
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,417 ratings — published 1997
Three Keys (Front Desk #2)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.40 — 11,560 ratings — published 2020
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.67 — 277,573 ratings — published 2019
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.49 — 13,071 ratings — published 2019
This Time Will Be Different (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 3.71 — 4,134 ratings — published 2019
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 3.84 — 28,362 ratings — published 2019
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,878 ratings — published 2018
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.48 — 26,110 ratings — published 2018
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,910 ratings — published 2014
Civil Disobedience (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 3.94 — 20,739 ratings — published 1849
“The typical active feminist is neither a fiery demonstrator nor a brilliant public speaker: like most successful social activists, she makes innumerable telephone calls, writes innumerable memos, waits for hours in the antechambers of those in power, attends committee meetings night after night, and is always behind with her correspondence.”
― Feminism in the Mid-1970s: The Non-establishment, the Establishment & the Future
― Feminism in the Mid-1970s: The Non-establishment, the Establishment & the Future
“Dear Men Everywhere,
Please don't think that being a feminist means we hate you or don't need you. -We absolutely love you and couldn't live without you! ...We are just on a mission to be treated equally and with respect. No hard feelings.
With love, Feminists of the World xoxoox
P.S. Yes we do shave our legs!”
― Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
Please don't think that being a feminist means we hate you or don't need you. -We absolutely love you and couldn't live without you! ...We are just on a mission to be treated equally and with respect. No hard feelings.
With love, Feminists of the World xoxoox
P.S. Yes we do shave our legs!”
― Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
