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The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XWolf Hustle by Cin FabréThe Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du BoisSet the Night on Fire by Mike DavisThe New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Best Books on African American Studies (nonfiction)
264 books — 157 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
113 books — 68 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
66 books — 43 voters
The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 by George H. NashThe Secret Man by Bob WoodwardThe Road to Jonestown by Jeff GuinnReckless by Robert K. BrighamStayin’ Alive by Jefferson R. Cowie
The 1970s in the United States (nonfiction)
243 books — 42 voters

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor CoerrPenny from Heaven by Jennifer L. HolmThe Lions of Little Rock by Kristin LevineDanny the Champion of the World by Roald DahlWith the Might of Angels by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Middle Grade Fiction set in the 1950s
175 books — 38 voters
The Help by Kathryn StockettThey Come in All Colors by Malcolm HansenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeEast of Eden by John Steinbeck1984 by George Orwell
Culturally Relevant Historical Fiction
88 books — 23 voters

Cracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonFrom Here to Equality by William A. Darity Jr.Disputed Pasts by Cristina Buarque de HollandaThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor
Books on Reparations by African-Americans
19 books — 16 voters
Cracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonDisputed Pasts by Cristina Buarque de HollandaStony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr.The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. BaptistCaste by Isabel Wilkerson
Frontline Stereo Podcast
29 books — 14 voters

Mayor of the Tenderloin by Alison OwingsThe Quest for College Heights by Sherman LewisRace for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorA World More Concrete by Nathan Daniel Beau ConnollyWhere We Want to Live by Ryan Gravel
American Housing and Land Use-related (nonfiction)
73 books — 13 voters
Annihilation of Caste by B.R. AmbedkarHating Self by Boo BlackWho were the Shudras? by B.R. AmbedkarThe Buddha and his Dhamma by Aakash Singh RathoreCastes in India by B.R. Ambedkar
Ambedkar
97 books — 12 voters

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. GainesThe Nickel Boys by Colson WhiteheadThe Bulls of Bashan by Jodi Lea StewartTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonFreshwater Road by Denise Nicholas
Adult Novels Depicting the Black Experience in the Jim Crow South by African-Americans
12 books — 11 voters
The Help by Kathryn StockettWalking with the Wind by John LewisAction Words by Shaune BordereBearing the Cross by David J. GarrowThe Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King Jr.
Christian Desegregation
30 books — 11 voters

Motherwit by Urmila PawarThe Exercise of Freedom by Susie TharuThe Grip of Change by P. SivakamiUnclaimed Terrain by Ajay NavariaThe Branded by Laxman Gaikwad
Dalit Literature
101 books — 10 voters
Annihilation of Caste by B.R. AmbedkarThe Weave of My Life by Urmila PawarThe Prisons We Broke by Baby KambleThe Essential Writings of B. R. Ambedkar by B.R. AmbedkarMAHAD by Anand Teltumbde
Dalit History
106 books — 10 voters

The History of White People by Nell Irvin PainterTrial and Redemption by Thomas ReillyWho's Your Paddy? by Jennifer Nugent DuffyHillbilly Elegy by J.D. VanceWorking Toward Whiteness by David R. Roediger
What Does It Mean to Be White? - Whiteness in America
133 books — 9 voters
Out from This Place by Joyce HansenMy Home Is over Jordan by Sandra ForresterSound the Jubilee by Sandra ForresterStella Stands Alone by A. LaFayeFires of Jubilee by Alison Hart
Reconstruction in YA & Middle Grade Fiction
23 books — 8 voters

The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinUrban Forests by Jill JonnesDetroit, I Do Mind Dying by Dan GeorgakasNinety Percent of Everything by Rose GeorgeThe Slaughter of Cities by E. Michael Jones
Urban Planning Histories (nonfiction)
119 books — 8 voters
THE TRIAL OF SHERIFF JOSEPH F. SHIPP by James CicconeDeath of Innocence by Mamie Till-MobleyA Few Days Full of Trouble by Wheeler Parker Jr.Without Sanctuary by James AllenStrictly Justice by Celeste Rivers
Lynching in History
63 books — 7 voters

Ambedkar by Salim YusufjiAmbedkar by Gail OmvedtIconoclast by Anand TeltumbdeAmbedkar's Preamble by Aakash Singh RathoreThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor
Ambedkar — Books About Babasaheb
29 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
95 books — 4 voters

Memoirs of a Dalit Communist by R.B. MoreRadical in Ambedkar by Anand TeltumbdeWhat Babasaheb Ambedkar Means to Me by Ambedkar Age CollectiveThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorPsychological Richness As Breakthrough by Hubert J.M. Hermans
Ambedkarite
26 books — 4 voters
Annihilation of Caste by B.R. AmbedkarThe Persistence of Caste by Anand TeltumbdeUntouchables Castes in India by ShyamlalHaunted by Fire by Mythily SivaramanRepublic of Caste by Anand Teltumbde
Caste Discrimination
95 books — 3 voters

The Museum of Broken Tea Cups by Gunjan VedaSebastian and Sons by T.M. KrishnaCollected Plays of Sanjay Jiwane by Sanjay JiwaneStrength of our wrists by Premanand GajveeDalit Art and Visual Imagery by Gary Michael Tartakov
Dalit Art and Music
10 books — 2 voters
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
White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby HamadCaste by Isabel WilkersonWhite Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby HamadWhite Fragility by Robin DiAngeloThe Trouble with White Women by Kyla Schuller
Racism
46 books — 1 voter

Dalit Women and the Fullness of Life by Christina DhanujaLove in the Time of Caste by Nikhil PandhiDalit Women's Education in Modern India by Shailaja PaikSpotted Goddesses by Roja SinghDalit Kotha by Manju Bala
Dalit Women
24 books — 1 voter
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyRed Queen by Victoria AveyardThe Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Caste in Fiction
41 books — 1 voter

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