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
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
219 books — 143 voters
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du BoisReconstruction by Eric FonerThe Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann WoodwardA Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 by Eric FonerReconstruction after the Civil War by John Hope Franklin
Civil War Reconstruction (nonfiction)
97 books — 23 voters

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn1984 by George OrwellThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxManufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman
Best Left-Texts
667 books — 359 voters

Dick Gregory
I was learning that just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine. ...more
Dick Gregory

Colson Whitehead
And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn't exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are. ...more
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

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