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1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonJohn Adams by David McCulloughA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
U.S. History Reading List
445 books — 143 voters
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
97 books — 54 voters

How Fascism Works by Jason F. StanleyBring the War Home by Kathleen BelewThe Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. PaxtonWhite American Youth by Christian PiccioliniFascism by Madeleine K. Albright
Understanding Fascism Reading List (nonfiction)
195 books — 42 voters
Set the Night on Fire by Mike DavisBuses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonThe Wounded World by Chad L. WilliamsBlack Folk by Blair L.M. KelleyTWAS The Year 2020 by Karl Wiggins
Race Rebels, Black Power, & Community Organizing (nonfiction)
68 books — 41 voters

The Means That Make Us Strangers by Christine KindbergGlory Be by Augusta ScattergoodRoll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. TaylorThe Lions of Little Rock by Kristin LevineStella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
Segregation & Integration in YA & Middle Grade Fiction
64 books — 40 voters
Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonA Place at the Nayarit by Natalia MolinaAnd a Voice to Sing With by Joan BaezOutlaw Woman by Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizHouse of Diggs by Marion Orr
Sixties Memoirs & Biographies (nonfiction)
172 books — 37 voters

Separate Things by Ashley Marie BerryMade You Up by Francesca ZappiaUprooted by Peter J. BoniAnxiety by Danny WinterCabbie with a Dangerous Mind by Karl Wiggins
Books That Stigmatize Mental Illness
29 books — 25 voters
30 Years Behind Bars by Karen GedneyHUSH MONEY by Deborah HarrisThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAction Words by Shaune Bordere
Stand Against Racism - YWCAGLBR
22 books — 23 voters

Black Folk by Blair L.M. KelleyFreeman's Challenge by Robin BernsteinNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichSlavery by Another Name by Douglas A. BlackmonMother Jones by Elliott J. Gorn
Proletariat: US Labor History (nonfiction)
243 books — 20 voters
TWAS The Year 2020 by Karl WigginsAccounting for Slavery by Caitlin RosenthalSlavery by Another Name by Douglas A. BlackmonRacial Innocence by Robin BernsteinCaptives and Cousins by James F. Brooks
Slavery in the US: Systems and Ideology (nonfiction)
159 books — 19 voters

InTRANSigence by Dianna KennyConspiracy U by Scott A. ShayThe Tyranny of the Meritocracy by Lani GuinierEbony and Ivy by Craig Steven WilderPaying the Price by Sara Goldrick-Rab
Best Books on Social Issues on Universities
49 books — 18 voters
Number the Stars by Lois LowryThe Plot Against America by Philip RothThe Wind Knows My Name by Isabel AllendeFiddler on the Roof by Joseph SteinThe Summer Everything Changed by Ruth Bornstein
Anti-Semitism in Fiction
194 books — 16 voters

Ravished by Amanda QuickThe Leopard Prince by Elizabeth HoytAlways to Remember by Lorraine HeathRyan by Jessica GadzialaAll Night Long by Jayne Ann Krentz
Romance ft Social Outcasts
54 books — 13 voters
The Last Song by Eva WisemanA Ceiling Made of Eggshells by Gail Carson LevineIncantation by Alice HoffmanBlood Secret by Kathryn LaskyThe Apprentice's Masterpiece by Melanie Little
The Spanish Inquisition in YA & Middle Grade Fiction
33 books — 12 voters

More than a Glitch by Meredith BroussardAlgorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja NobleAutomating Inequality by Virginia EubanksWeapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'NeilHello World by Hannah Fry
Digital Inequalities and Algorithmic Bias
24 books — 12 voters
When Morning Comes by Arushi RainaThe Power of One by Bryce CourtenayJourney to Jo'burg by Beverley NaidooCape Town by Brenda HammondOpen Your Eyes by Jill Davis
Apartheid in YA & Middle Grade Fiction
25 books — 7 voters

Sex Equality by Catharine A. MacKinnonToward a Feminist Theory of the State by Catharine A. MacKinnonDefending Battered Women on Trial by Elizabeth A. SheehyFeminism Unmodified by Catharine A. MacKinnonWomen's Lives, Men's Laws by Catharine A. MacKinnon
Feminism and the law
52 books — 7 voters
The History of White People by Nell Irvin PainterWho's Your Paddy? by Jennifer Nugent DuffyHillbilly Elegy by J.D. VanceWorking Toward Whiteness by David R. RoedigerThe Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism by Gerald Horne
What Does It Mean to Be White? - Whiteness in America
132 books — 7 voters

Annihilation of Caste by B.R. AmbedkarWho were the Shudras? by B.R. AmbedkarThe Buddha and his Dhamma by Aakash Singh RathoreCastes in India by B.R. AmbedkarThe Untouchables by B.R. Ambedkar
Ambedkar
95 books — 6 voters
Ambedkar by Gail OmvedtJoothan by Omprakash ValmikiThe Weave of My Life by Urmila PawarThe Elephant Chaser's Daughter by Shilpa RajComing Out as Dalit by Yashica Dutt
Dalit Biographies
63 books — 5 voters

White Fragility by Robin DiAngeloBeloved by Toni MorrisonI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Sum of Us by Heather McGheeBorn a Crime by Trevor Noah
Staff Picks: Black History Month Reads
99 books — 5 voters
Khairlanji by Anand TeltumbdeHaunted by Fire by Mythily SivaramanComing Out as Dalit by Yashica DuttSpotted Goddesses by Roja SinghVenomous Touch by Ravikumar
Dalit Nonfiction
92 books — 4 voters

The Skeptic's Annotated Bible by Steve WellsDrunk with Blood by Steve WellsAwkward Moments by Horus GilgameshAwkward Moments (Not Found in Your Average) Children's Bible,... by Horus GilgameshAwkward Moments (Not Found in Your Average) Children's Bible,... by Horus Gilgamesh
The Christian Bible for Atheists
19 books — 4 voters
Décolonisons les arts! by Leïla Cukierman, Gerty Damb...Afro-communautaire by Fania Noël-ThomassaintAfrofem by Mwasi Collectif AfroféministeÀ nos humanités révoltées by KiyémisLe Triangle et l'Hexagone by Maboula Soumahoro
Ouvrages militants antiracistes et anticolonialistes (en français)
104 books — 3 voters

Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr.The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. BaptistCaste by Isabel WilkersonThe Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du BoisBlack Bourgeoisie by E. Franklin Frazier
Frontline Stereo Podcast
18 books — 3 voters
From Here to Equality by William A. Darity Jr.The Great Influenza by John M. BarryReparations by Duke L. KwonThe Debt by Randall RobinsonShould America Pay? by Raymond A. Winbush
Books on Reparations by African-Americans
6 books — 3 voters

Leave the World Behind by Rumaan AlamThe Skin We're In by Desmond ColeFive Little Indians by Michelle GoodHow to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham ThammavongsaWe Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib
Canadian Books on Race Relations in 2020
10 books — 2 voters
Memoirs of a Dalit Communist by R.B. MoreCaste Matters by Suraj YengdeThe Social Context of an Ideology by M S GoreMahad by Bojja TharakamAmbedkar by Narendra Jadhav
Ambedkarite
23 books — 1 voter

A Current of Blood by Namdeo DhasalDays Will Come Back by Kamal Dev PallBlues from Bhimnagar by Yogesh MaitreyaDalit Voices in Indian Poetry by Sakunthala A.I.Letters to Namdeo Dhasal by Chandramohan S.
Dalit Poetry
24 books — 1 voter
Politics as Social Text in India by Jayabrata SarkarThe Dalit Truth by K. RajuThe Trauma of Caste by Thenmozhi SoundararajanBhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India by V. GeethaUnseen by Bhasha Singh
Dalit Sociology
100 books — 1 voter

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