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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,036,229 ratings — published 2017
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,888 ratings — published 2014
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.62 — 269,957 ratings — published 2014
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,722 ratings — published 2019
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-activism)
avg rating 3.90 — 4,394 ratings — published 2017
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.40 — 374,252 ratings — published 2015
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,878 ratings — published 2008
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.28 — 51,216 ratings — published 2015
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.52 — 166,672 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 — 179,089 ratings — published 2019
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.35 — 65,637 ratings — published 2020
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.37 — 74,145 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 — 37,270 ratings — published 2015
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 3.77 — 586,624 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 — 119,866 ratings — published 2010
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.55 — 128,220 ratings — published 1963
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-activism)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,787 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 — 90,111 ratings — published 2003
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,403 ratings — published 1988
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.22 — 9,673 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 — 101,939 ratings — published 2017
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,147 ratings — published 2016
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.51 — 31,562 ratings — published 2003
Attack of the Black Rectangles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,991 ratings — published 2022
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist ― A Memoir about the Worker Movement and Spiritual Conversion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,848 ratings — published 1952
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,218 ratings — published 1981
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,608 ratings — published 2018
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.37 — 168,747 ratings — published 2019
82년생 김지영 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.16 — 197,986 ratings — published 2016
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.44 — 18,203 ratings — published 2020
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.43 — 23,165 ratings — published 2018
Three Keys (Front Desk #2)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.40 — 11,366 ratings — published 2020
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.67 — 270,855 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 — 12,938 ratings — published 2019
This Time Will Be Different (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 3.71 — 4,130 ratings — published 2019
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 3.85 — 28,210 ratings — published 2019
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,018 ratings — published 2017
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,868 ratings — published 2018
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.49 — 25,997 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 — 44,355 ratings — published 2014
Civil Disobedience (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 3.94 — 20,417 ratings — published 1849
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,323 ratings — published 1984
We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.04 — 386 ratings — published 2015
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,598 ratings — published 2006
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,381 ratings — published 1961
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.39 — 339,031 ratings — published 2012
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.37 — 297,779 ratings — published 1965
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.16 — 635,571 ratings — published 2012
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,318 ratings — published 1989
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 2 times as social-activism)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,617 ratings — published 2001
“Perhaps there has been, at some point in history, some great power whose elevation was exempt from the violent exploitation of other human bodies. If there has been, I have yet to discover it. But this banality of violence can never excuse America, because America makes no claim to the banal. America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist, a lone champion standing between the white city of democracy and the terrorists, despots, barbarians, and other enemies of civilization. One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen's claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard. This is difficult because there exists, all around us, an apparatus urging us to accept American innocence at face value and not to inquire too much. And it is so easy to look away, to live with the fruits of our history and to ignore the great evil done in all of our names.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“Do you think that if we all look the same, it’s going to magically solve all our problems?
It won’t. People will long to be different, and in their quest to differentiate themselves, will drive the chaos leading us back to where we are today.
Instead, let’s embrace our differences, be happy, and be done with it.”
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It won’t. People will long to be different, and in their quest to differentiate themselves, will drive the chaos leading us back to where we are today.
Instead, let’s embrace our differences, be happy, and be done with it.”
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