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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 326 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,048,036 ratings — published 2017
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 255 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,910 ratings — published 2010
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 237 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 119,042 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 226 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,716 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.62 — 273,949 ratings — published 2014
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 189 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,764 ratings — published 2018
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 169,638 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 109,007 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,255 ratings — published 2019
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,156,361 ratings — published 1960
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 149 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.39 — 343,517 ratings — published 2012
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 148 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.66 — 197,050 ratings — published 2001
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.83 — 516,744 ratings — published 2016
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,890 ratings — published 2023
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,581,627 ratings — published 1985
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.33 — 184,515 ratings — published 2019
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.14 — 833,469 ratings — published 2010
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,849,112 ratings — published 1945
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.43 — 49,025 ratings — published 2017
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.53 — 39,496 ratings — published 2016
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.35 — 66,560 ratings — published 2020
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,810,969 ratings — published 1949
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.06 — 646,750 ratings — published 1999
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 855,458 ratings — published 2016
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,461 ratings — published 2017
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,109,653 ratings — published 2009
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.11 — 888,215 ratings — published 2020
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 55,314 ratings — published 2020
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,039,563 ratings — published 2007
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 641,894 ratings — published 2012
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.55 — 131,646 ratings — published 1963
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,906 ratings — published 2015
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.32 — 87,372 ratings — published 2017
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,637 ratings — published 1997
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 76 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.67 — 278,316 ratings — published 2019
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,993,084 ratings — published 2018
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 123,106 ratings — published 2010
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.77 — 590,942 ratings — published 2019
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,172 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 776,332 ratings — published 1982
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 74,442 ratings — published 2018
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.59 — 37,132 ratings — published 1981
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 51,604 ratings — published 2015
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.82 — 90,936 ratings — published 2014
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.55 — 83,220 ratings — published 2025
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,741 ratings — published 2017
Small Great Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 464,526 ratings — published 2016
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.91 — 121,466 ratings — published 2014
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,919,633 ratings — published 2022
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.79 — 128,436 ratings — published 2021
“It is in the linkage between freedom of movement and equality of opportunity that the analogy with feudalism cuts most deeply. Under feudalism, there was no commitment to equal opportunity. The social circumstances of one’s birth largely determined one’s opportunities, and restrictions on freedom of movement were an essential element in maintaining the limitations on the opportunities of those with talent and motivation but the wrong class background. (Of course, gender was another pervasive constraint.) In the modern world, we have created a social order in which there is a commitment to equality of opportunity for people within democratic states (at least to some extent), but no pretense of, or even aspiration to, equality of opportunity for people across states. Because of the state’s discretionary control over immigration, the opportunities for people in one state are simply closed to those from another (for the most part).”
― The Ethics of Immigration
― The Ethics of Immigration
“Crack had a social logic to it, a specific kind of reasoning that drew from a vast well of common experience for its symbolic resonance. Crack stood for pain and power, chaos and order, the truth behind the lie. Crack was a sociolegal logic grounded in blood.”
― 5 Grams: Crack Cocaine, Rap Music, and the War on Drugs
― 5 Grams: Crack Cocaine, Rap Music, and the War on Drugs
