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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 — 12,229 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 — 65,029 ratings — published 2020
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.62 — 267,816 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 — 119,147 ratings — published 2010
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,361 ratings — published 2018
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.37 — 295,861 ratings — published 1965
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.52 — 165,315 ratings — published 2020
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,284 ratings — published 2015
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,440 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 — 12,083 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 — 36,900 ratings — published 2015
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,375 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 — 44,421 ratings — published 2019
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.12 — 872,308 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 — 232,236 ratings — published 1995
Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World (Third World Books)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.00 — 254 ratings — published 1982
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,028,773 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 — 38,943 ratings — published 2016
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.46 — 14,983 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 — 533 ratings — published 1977
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-movement)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,636 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 — 10,405 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 — 2,331 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
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.57 — 63,129 ratings — published 2025
Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.18 — 901 ratings — published 2025
We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.62 — 178 ratings — published 2020
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 — 10,771 ratings — published 2024
Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.36 — 558 ratings — published 2023
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,885 ratings — published 2024
Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.57 — 801 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 4.45 — 2,183 ratings — published 2025
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,971 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 — 41,968 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 — 480,855 ratings — published 2012
The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,458 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 4.30 — 203,930 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 — 862,178 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 4.60 — 1,072 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 3.98 — 793 ratings — published 1999
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.17 — 29,428 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 — 5,267 ratings — published 2021
Horse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.24 — 216,415 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 — 320 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 — 2,623 ratings — published 2018
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.38 — 14,058 ratings — published 2018
Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as social-movement)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,876 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 — 1,985 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 — 45,953 ratings — published 2018
“We have seen viruses which reproduced themselves in packs to do evil, but we have also seen the atom, which when split in half, destroy itself and the viruses, thus, generating a power never seen on the face of the Earth.
A little bit later in eternity, we have met with the nucleus whose individual fission produces in profusion more than what the atom ever imagined. - On the Power of the Little Guy”
― Awakening
A little bit later in eternity, we have met with the nucleus whose individual fission produces in profusion more than what the atom ever imagined. - On the Power of the Little Guy”
― Awakening
“We live in a world where justice is never simply handed over. It has to be demanded, and then demanded over and over again. For every great social movement in history, it has taken the unique wisdom and strength of every generation united to move the needle toward change.”
― Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It
― Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It
