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Race Relations Books
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Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,964 ratings — published 2015
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 109 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,632 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,031,307 ratings — published 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,027,507 ratings — published 1960
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,363 ratings — published 2010
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,064,763 ratings — published 2009
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,474 ratings — published 2019
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.52 — 165,733 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,432 ratings — published 2018
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.12 — 874,204 ratings — published 2020
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 67 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.55 — 126,837 ratings — published 1963
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.62 — 268,480 ratings — published 2014
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,001 ratings — published 2016
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.48 — 120,228 ratings — published 2010
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.49 — 830,235 ratings — published 2016
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.31 — 421,054 ratings — published 2013
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.13 — 819,553 ratings — published 2010
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.77 — 584,779 ratings — published 2019
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,435 ratings — published 1997
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 48 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.25 — 318,321 ratings — published 2019
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.43 — 47,614 ratings — published 2017
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.06 — 453,826 ratings — published 2016
Small Great Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.36 — 450,990 ratings — published 2016
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.37 — 296,553 ratings — published 1965
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.47 — 418,427 ratings — published 2016
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.42 — 567,775 ratings — published 2024
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.46 — 54,979 ratings — published 2020
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.37 — 74,023 ratings — published 2018
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.92 — 205,093 ratings — published 1952
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.32 — 86,608 ratings — published 2017
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.16 — 135,591 ratings — published 1996
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.99 — 504,428 ratings — published 1987
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.31 — 285,448 ratings — published 1979
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,657 ratings — published 1903
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,365,534 ratings — published 2001
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.91 — 335,284 ratings — published 2023
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.70 — 41,381 ratings — published 2021
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.28 — 765,106 ratings — published 1982
Go Set a Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.31 — 294,424 ratings — published 2015
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.14 — 313,354 ratings — published 1970
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.13 — 137,541 ratings — published 1845
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.28 — 51,043 ratings — published 2015
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.04 — 106,677 ratings — published 1940
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,761 ratings — published 2017
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.04 — 240,300 ratings — published 2021
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.49 — 25,950 ratings — published 2018
Black Like Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.11 — 70,117 ratings — published 1961
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as race-relations)
avg rating 3.92 — 245,525 ratings — published 1852
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,683 ratings — published 2020
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as race-relations)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,011 ratings — published 2016
“There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that they must accept you. The terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love. For these innocent people have no other hope. They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it. They have had to believe for many years, and for innumerable reasons, that black men are inferior to white men. Many of them, indeed, know better, but, as you will discover, people find it very difficult to act on what they know.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“Country music was the most segregated kind of music in America, where even whites played jazz and even blacks sang in the opera. Something like country music was what lynch mobs must have enjoyed while stringing up their black victims. Country music was not necessarily lynching music, but no other music could be imagined as lynching’s accompaniment. Beethoven’s Ninth was the opus for Nazis, concentration camp commanders, and possibly President Truman as he contemplated atomizing Hiroshima, classical music the refined score for the high-minded extermination of brutish hordes. Country music was set to the more humble beat of the red-blooded, bloodthirsty American heartland. It was for fear of being beaten to this beat that black soldiers avoided the Saigon bars where their white comrades kept the jukeboxes humming with Hank Williams and his kind, sonic signposts that said, in essence, No Niggers.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
