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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1081 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.52 — 102,709 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 959 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.40 — 315,705 ratings — published 2015
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 892 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.38 — 109,246 ratings — published 2019
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 871 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.18 — 156,367 ratings — published 2018
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 863 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.63 — 214,905 ratings — published 2014
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 832 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.50 — 100,747 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
by (shelved 754 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.49 — 820,917 ratings — published 2017
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 597 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.54 — 122,663 ratings — published 2020
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 505 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.47 — 88,269 ratings — published 2016
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (National Book Award Winner)
by (shelved 495 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.54 — 33,889 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 449 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.45 — 34,551 ratings — published 2017
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 442 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.39 — 44,267 ratings — published 2020
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 440 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.54 — 91,833 ratings — published 1963
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 433 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.39 — 67,109 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 404 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.41 — 269,991 ratings — published 2012
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 384 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.51 — 23,463 ratings — published 2018
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 383 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.35 — 27,780 ratings — published 2020
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 365 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.49 — 48,903 ratings — published 2020
Freedom is a Constant Struggle (Paperback)
by (shelved 340 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.40 — 18,346 ratings — published 2015
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.33 — 24,214 ratings — published 1997
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 320 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.39 — 90,900 ratings — published 2017
The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 303 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.45 — 94,100 ratings — published 2010
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 288 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.48 — 13,329 ratings — published 2016
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 286 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.35 — 255,367 ratings — published 1965
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.55 — 21,110 ratings — published 2003
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 281 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.53 — 32,551 ratings — published 1984
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 251 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.57 — 25,148 ratings — published 1981
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 243 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.37 — 14,519 ratings — published 2014
March: Book One (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.34 — 53,377 ratings — published 2013
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.30 — 32,453 ratings — published 1968
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 237 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.10 — 697,562 ratings — published 2010
Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
by (shelved 234 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.36 — 74,012 ratings — published 2017
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 217 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.15 — 545,016 ratings — published 2012
A People's History of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.07 — 233,238 ratings — published 1980
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 214 times as social-justice)
avg rating 3.94 — 107,857 ratings — published 2014
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.49 — 14,332 ratings — published 1981
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (Hardcover)
by (shelved 211 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.64 — 15,184 ratings — published 2021
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 207 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.73 — 27,513 ratings — published 2021
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
by (shelved 206 times as social-justice)
avg rating 3.65 — 188,933 ratings — published 2001
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 203 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.36 — 94,806 ratings — published 2019
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.39 — 28,812 ratings — published 2017
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 197 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.31 — 10,142 ratings — published 2017
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 196 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.28 — 54,285 ratings — published 2008
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.39 — 12,889 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.49 — 624,663 ratings — published 2016
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 191 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,483 ratings — published 2017
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.28 — 44,709 ratings — published 2014
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.23 — 35,978 ratings — published 2020
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.42 — 14,832 ratings — published 2020
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as social-justice)
avg rating 4.42 — 7,705 ratings — published 2007
“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.”
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“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
― Strength to Love
― Strength to Love
