Race Studies


The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Between the World and Me
How to Be an Antiracist
Women, Race & Class
So You Want to Talk About Race
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
Black Skin, White Masks
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Books White People Need to Read
1,420 books — 1,697 voters
Natives by AkalaThe Many-Headed Hydra by Peter LinebaughThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonRusty the Rooster by Mik RevohladThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor
Akala Reads
56 books — 10 voters

The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderWhite Rage by Carol  AndersonSeeing White by Charlotte E. HartRacism without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-SilvaBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
White Fragility
27 books — 1 voter