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Social Movement Books
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.19 — 12,088 ratings — published 1951
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.35 — 64,256 ratings — published 2020
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.62 — 265,095 ratings — published 2014
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,399 ratings — published 2010
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,100 ratings — published 2018
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.37 — 293,784 ratings — published 1965
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.52 — 163,691 ratings — published 2020
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.40 — 369,964 ratings — published 2015
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.47 — 115,316 ratings — published 2016
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.38 — 11,904 ratings — published 2017
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,457 ratings — published 2015
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,957 ratings — published 2019
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.34 — 44,157 ratings — published 2019
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.12 — 865,442 ratings — published 2020
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 3.94 — 231,722 ratings — published 1995
Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World (Third World Books)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.00 — 250 ratings — published 1982
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,021,116 ratings — published 2017
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,714 ratings — published 2016
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.46 — 14,895 ratings — published 2016
Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.12 — 530 ratings — published 1977
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,283 ratings — published 2014
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.43 — 10,234 ratings — published 2007
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.49 — 2,316 ratings — published 2005
Menolak Tumbang: Narasi Perempuan Melawan Pemiskinan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.09 — 22 ratings — published 2014
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.48 — 10,175 ratings — published 2024
Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.36 — 543 ratings — published 2023
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,553 ratings — published 2024
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.61 — 5,990 ratings — published 2025
Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.57 — 665 ratings — published
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,936 ratings — published 2025
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,845 ratings — published 2023
The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.37 — 40,907 ratings — published 2024
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.07 — 478,279 ratings — published 2012
The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 3.91 — 10,940 ratings — published 2024
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.31 — 192,801 ratings — published 2024
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.01 — 859,148 ratings — published 2000
Doing Small Things with Great Love: How Everyday Humanitarians Are Changing the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.62 — 840 ratings — published
Readings for Diversity and Social Justice: An Anthology on Racism, Antisemitism, Sexism, Heterosexism, Ableism, and Classism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 3.97 — 790 ratings — published 1999
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.18 — 29,119 ratings — published 2006
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,185 ratings — published 2021
Horse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.24 — 211,436 ratings — published 2022
From Poor Law to Welfare State: A History of Social Welfare in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 3.69 — 318 ratings — published 1974
An African American and Latinx History of the United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,586 ratings — published 2018
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.38 — 13,978 ratings — published 2018
Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,851 ratings — published 2017
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,980 ratings — published 2015
Trustbuilding: An Honest Conversation on Race, Reconciliation, and Responsibility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.00 — 9 ratings — published 2010
Heavy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.47 — 45,538 ratings — published 2018
Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy Manual for Activists (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.14 — 262 ratings — published 1991
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,458 ratings — published 2007
“Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.”
― Free-Thought on the American Frontier
― Free-Thought on the American Frontier
“Within the civic space, we tend to see Creators in three roles: creating messages, creating art, and educating others.”
― Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives
― Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives
