Race Relations

Race-relations refers to the study of social, political, and economic relations between races and ethnicities at all levels of society. This area encompasses the study of racism, residential segregation, and other complex social processes between different racial and ethnic groups.

Between the World and Me
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
The Hate U Give
To Kill a Mockingbird
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The Help
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
How to Be an Antiracist
So You Want to Talk About Race
The Vanishing Half
Just Mercy
The Fire Next Time
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Cracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonStony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr.The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. BaptistCaste by Isabel WilkersonThe Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Frontline Stereo Podcast
30 books — 14 voters

The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootMedical Apartheid by Harriet A. WashingtonWhen Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
Breaking Brown Book Reads
114 books — 67 voters

Colson Whitehead
“ White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him? That was one kind of work you could say no to. ”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

Ta-Nehisi Coates
“ You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable. ”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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