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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,930 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 368,807 ratings — published 2015
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,750 ratings — published 2019
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,980 ratings — published 2018
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.59 — 34,902 ratings — published 1981
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 17 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.55 — 123,188 ratings — published 1963
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,439 ratings — published 1952
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 162,870 ratings — published 2020
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.43 — 10,163 ratings — published 2007
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 13 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 172,619 ratings — published 2018
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,604 ratings — published 2016
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 19,402 ratings — published 1981
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,184 ratings — published 2017
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 46,486 ratings — published 2017
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 292,875 ratings — published 1965
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 45,177 ratings — published 1903
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,234 ratings — published 1997
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 117,868 ratings — published 2010
The History of White People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,209 ratings — published 2010
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,218 ratings — published 1984
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 9,815 ratings — published 1981
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 30,981 ratings — published 2017
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,154 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 809,023 ratings — published 2010
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 32,861 ratings — published 1961
Invisible Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as race-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 202,921 ratings — published 1952
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 24,631 ratings — published 1955
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.61 — 24,642 ratings — published 2019
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.60 — 31,778 ratings — published 1987
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,477 ratings — published 2020
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 25,732 ratings — published 2018
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.46 — 14,860 ratings — published 2016
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,752 ratings — published 2012
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,683 ratings — published 2003
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 584,732 ratings — published 1969
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,570 ratings — published 1987
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 756,386 ratings — published 1982
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.70 — 40,192 ratings — published 2021
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,934 ratings — published 2018
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 30,484 ratings — published 2003
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,017,801 ratings — published 2017
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,247 ratings — published 2016
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 20,752 ratings — published 2014
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,538 ratings — published 1990
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,126 ratings — published 2014
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 105,034 ratings — published 1940
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,074 ratings — published 2005
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,950 ratings — published 1978
Race Matters (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,968 ratings — published 1993
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as race-studies)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,266 ratings — published 1997








