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The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 329 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,024,614 ratings — published 2017
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 256 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,723 ratings — published 2010
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 235 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 115,762 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.40 — 370,945 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.62 — 266,288 ratings — published 2014
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 183 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,137 ratings — published 2018
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.52 — 164,414 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,229 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,129 ratings — published 2019
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,978,474 ratings — published 1960
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 149 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,093 ratings — published 2001
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 147 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.39 — 335,303 ratings — published 2012
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.83 — 509,102 ratings — published 2016
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 64,184 ratings — published 2023
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,478,492 ratings — published 1985
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.33 — 174,327 ratings — published 2019
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.13 — 814,342 ratings — published 2010
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.53 — 38,798 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 — 64,577 ratings — published 2020
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.44 — 47,054 ratings — published 2017
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,652,258 ratings — published 1945
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.05 — 636,313 ratings — published 1999
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,582,906 ratings — published 1948
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,478 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.49 — 821,908 ratings — published 2016
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,049,701 ratings — published 2009
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.12 — 868,638 ratings — published 2020
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 54,798 ratings — published 2020
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,029,798 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 — 629,881 ratings — published 2012
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.33 — 86,279 ratings — published 2017
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 77 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.55 — 125,162 ratings — published 1963
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,653 ratings — published 2015
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 75 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.68 — 264,710 ratings — published 2019
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,332 ratings — published 1997
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.77 — 582,104 ratings — published 2019
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,904,596 ratings — published 2018
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.48 — 119,111 ratings — published 2010
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 73,833 ratings — published 2018
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.46 — 14,929 ratings — published 2016
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 760,888 ratings — published 1982
All American Boys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 50,731 ratings — published 2015
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.82 — 88,830 ratings — published 2014
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,407 ratings — published 1981
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,015 ratings — published 2017
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.92 — 119,848 ratings — published 2014
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,869 ratings — published 2012
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,773 ratings — published 2008
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as social-issues)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,830,739 ratings — published 2022
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as social-issues)
avg rating 3.80 — 121,763 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
“Young women get to date who they want while men date who they can but when they get older men marry who they want and women marry who they can.”
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