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To Kill a Mockingbird
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
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The Color Purple
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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Animal Farm
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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The Grapes of Wrath
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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The Help
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Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author)
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Night
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author)
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Women, Race & Class
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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Black Like Me
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Letter from the Birmingham Jail
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The Jungle
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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Malala Yousafzai (Goodreads Author)
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The Fire Next Time
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Middlesex
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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The Great Gatsby
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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Race Matters
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Just Mercy
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The Complete Maus
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A Tale of Two Cities
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Native Son
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Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
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Jaclyn Friedman (Goodreads Author)
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Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
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The Souls of Black Folk
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1984
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
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Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
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Infidel
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
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Nicholas D. Kristof (Goodreads Author)
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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
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Angie Thomas (Goodreads Author)
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The Poisonwood Bible
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The Communist Manifesto
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The Wretched of the Earth
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
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Julia Serano (Goodreads Author)
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Americanah
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Angela's Ashes
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The Shame of the Nation
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
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Cherríe L. Moraga (Editor)
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
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Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
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Lord of the Flies
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Notes of a Native Son
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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The Bluest Eye
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Snow Falling on Cedars
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My Bondage and My Freedom
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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Othello
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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
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Of Mice and Men
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Black Skin, White Masks
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Crossing the Seas: A Diary of My Thoughts
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Evelyn Goodman (Adaptor)
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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Twelve Years a Slave
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Why We Can't Wait
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Where We Stand: Class Matters
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Black Power: The Politics of Liberation
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
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Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
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There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
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None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
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Invisible Man
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The Stranger
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Bad Feminist
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Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author)
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Nobody Knows My Name
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Fahrenheit 451
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Between the World and Me
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The Outsiders
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S.E. Hinton (Goodreads Author)
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Up from Slavery
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Woman at Point Zero
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Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
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Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
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Wuthering Heights
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The Red Tent
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Anita Diamant (Goodreads Author)
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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Matthew Desmond (Goodreads Author)
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God Is Red: A Native View of Religion
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People who are commenting with book suggestions, you can add them directly to the list yourself by clicking the tab "add books to the list" at the very top of the book list. Please do!
Thank you for this -- one of my New Year's Resolutions was to read more about race, and I was having trouble finding recommendations.
Elizabeth-- for African American books, this list is excellent: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/19...
Ooof. The Help. The Black experience written by a white woman. When will we learn to stop reading these works? I'd take that out and put some Toni Morrison in. I love all the Deloria!
If you're interested in finding more recommendations or discussion of radical political books, you can check out & participate in the Anarchist & Radical Book Club. We try to curate our "bookshelf" so you can find books by subject.
Is there no way to remove or challenge a book on this (or any list?) Book number 224 is Stephen King's It.
Zebradley wrote: "Ooof. The Help. The Black experience written by a white woman. When will we learn to stop reading these works?"I completely agree. I read the book and genuinely don't understand the hype.
Why is Stephen King's 'It' on this list?
Muttix wrote: "Zebradley wrote: "Ooof. The Help. The Black experience written by a white woman. When will we learn to stop reading these works?"I completely agree. I read the book and genuinely don't understand..."
Well, at least it's not as bad as Save the Pearls.
This list doesn't really make sense. Much like the concept of "social justice."
Theybradley wrote: "Ooof. The Help. The Black experience written by a white woman. When will we learn to stop reading these works? I'd take that out and put some Toni Morrison in. I love all the Deloria!"That's the purpose of the book, to see how white people see it.
I would like recommendations for novels published in 2017 which focus on Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class themes. Many thanks in advance. Christopher
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