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
How to Be an Antiracist
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
So You Want to Talk About Race
The Vanishing Half
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
Just Mercy
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
Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonThe Book of Angels by Maya ElAction Words by Shaune BordereAmerica's Original Sin by Jim WallisSo You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Race in America
126 books — 18 voters

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne BrontëJude the Obscure by Thomas HardySilas Marner by George EliotThe Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
Best Underrated/Overlooked Classics
178 books — 92 voters
From the Erzgebirge to Potosi by Sean   DalyNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichEvicted by Matthew DesmondJourney to the West by Biao  WangMaid by Stephanie  Land
Books on Poverty and Inequality
225 books — 150 voters

Percival Everett
It’s a horrible world. White people try to tell us that everything will be just fine when we go to heaven. My question is, Will they be there? If so, I might make other arrangements.
Percival Everett, James

Kathryn Stockett
By the time she a year old Mae Mobley following me around everwhere I go….Miss Leefolt, she’d narrow up her eyes at me like I done something wrong, unhitch that crying baby off my foot. I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns
Kathryn Stockett, The Help

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