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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
42nd out of 101 books — 64 voters
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
324th out of 1,374 books — 1,631 voters

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyPride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-SmithSheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K. Ritz
Best Book Titles
8743rd out of 11,992 books — 8,389 voters
We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi CoatesNegroes with Guns by Robert Franklin WilliamsBlood Done Sign My Name by Timothy B. TysonThe Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. TysonIf Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
C+W Reading List
2nd out of 6 books — 2 voters

Oscar Micheaux by Patrick McGilliganLife on the Color Line by Gregory Howard WilliamsMy Father's Name by Lawrence P. JacksonToo Precious to Lose by Jason GreenDeath of Innocence by Mamie Till-Mobley
Best African American Biography or Autobiography
12th out of 22 books — 6 voters
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XWho Hears Here? by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Black History
117th out of 206 books — 21 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerNickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2078th out of 2,165 books — 1,570 voters
Beyond Respectability by Brittney CooperAt the Dark End of the Street by Danielle L. McGuireMothers of Massive Resistance by Elizabeth Gillespie McRaeRemaking Black Power by Ashley D. FarmerWelcome to Fairyland by Julio Capó Jr.
Hot Girl History Club 2020 Reads
6th out of 14 books — 1 voter

Riot. Strike. Riot by Joshua CloverBlack Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du BoisAre Prisons Obselete? by Angela Y. DavisAbolition Democracy by Angela Y. DavisThe First Civil Right by Naomi Murakawa
A World Without Police
29th out of 55 books — 1 voter
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonGbesu Wema Kulito Vol I by Ayinon Ahosu Djísoví Agbòví IThe African Origin of Civilization by Cheikh Anta DiopBlack Skin, White Masks by Frantz FanonThe Isis Papers by Frances Cress Welsing
Books Towards Afrikan Sovereignty
96th out of 108 books — 6 voters

The Plague by Albert CamusTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerRabbit, Run by John UpdikeBorn Free by Joy Adamson
The Sixties Chronicle
14th out of 37 books — 1 voter
The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth HarpWhen Crack Was King by Donovan X. RamseyManufacturing Consent by Edward S. HermanThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Essential History Books
21st out of 24 books — 2 voters


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