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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1198 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,924 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1049 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.40 — 360,245 ratings — published 2015
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 954 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.36 — 118,732 ratings — published 2019
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 953 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.62 — 257,345 ratings — published 2014
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 924 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.16 — 170,977 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 865 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,557 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 842 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.45 — 995,829 ratings — published 2017
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 733 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.53 — 158,141 ratings — published 2020
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 585 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.47 — 111,544 ratings — published 2016
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 536 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,104 ratings — published 2016
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 528 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.36 — 61,867 ratings — published 2020
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 515 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.55 — 117,284 ratings — published 1963
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 500 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.44 — 44,872 ratings — published 2017
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 476 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.44 — 34,651 ratings — published 2015
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 465 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.39 — 324,304 ratings — published 2012
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 444 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.38 — 72,579 ratings — published 2018
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 398 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.49 — 25,384 ratings — published 2018
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 396 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,252 ratings — published 2020
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 385 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.47 — 53,770 ratings — published 2020
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 365 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.34 — 26,949 ratings — published 1997
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 364 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.52 — 29,318 ratings — published 2003
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 352 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.48 — 114,728 ratings — published 2010
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 344 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.37 — 100,322 ratings — published 2017
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 337 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.53 — 40,245 ratings — published 1984
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 333 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.27 — 58,549 ratings — published 2023
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 323 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.47 — 14,687 ratings — published 2016
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 317 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.37 — 287,594 ratings — published 1965
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 306 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.59 — 33,666 ratings — published 1981
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 283 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.34 — 161,540 ratings — published 2019
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 276 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.37 — 19,805 ratings — published 2014
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 275 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.30 — 38,354 ratings — published 1968
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 272 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.13 — 793,828 ratings — published 2010
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (Hardcover)
by (shelved 271 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.62 — 20,824 ratings — published 2021
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 263 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.70 — 38,639 ratings — published 2021
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 263 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.33 — 84,533 ratings — published 2017
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 254 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.09 — 262,044 ratings — published 1980
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.51 — 18,779 ratings — published 1981
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as social-justice)
avg rating 3.92 — 118,248 ratings — published 2014
March: Book One (March, #1)
by (shelved 244 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.35 — 56,958 ratings — published 2013
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 233 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.16 — 616,253 ratings — published 2012
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 230 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,158 ratings — published 2017
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 225 times as social-justice)
avg rating 3.65 — 194,892 ratings — published 2001
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.61 — 23,652 ratings — published 2019
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.49 — 788,004 ratings — published 2016
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.25 — 51,191 ratings — published 2014
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 204 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,542 ratings — published 2017
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 204 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,537 ratings — published 2008
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.38 — 13,830 ratings — published 2018
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.55 — 12,223 ratings — published 2020
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 197 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.38 — 30,727 ratings — published 2017
“A just society is that society in which ascending sense of reverence and descending sense of contempt is dissolved into the creation of a compassionate society”
― Annihilation of Caste
― Annihilation of Caste
“It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time.”
― A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
― A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
