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Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.40 average rating, · 373.7k ratings
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
4.52 average rating, · 166.3k ratings
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The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
4.55 average rating, · 127.7k ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
4.52 average rating, · 119.7k ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 average rating, · 120.7k ratings
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Clint Smith
4.69 average rating, · 41.6k ratings
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How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
4.36 average rating, · 120.6k ratings
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds
4.46 average rating, · 55.1k ratings
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The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.49 average rating, · 45k ratings
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Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis
4.59 average rating, · 36.1k ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi
4.53 average rating, · 39.1k ratings
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Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur
4.60 average rating, · 32.9k ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein
4.43 average rating, · 47.8k ratings
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Angela Y. Davis
4.44 average rating, · 37.2k ratings
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis
4.51 average rating, · 31.5k ratings
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones
4.61 average rating, · 25.5k ratings
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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Andrea Elliott
4.70 average rating, · 20.1k ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois
4.31 average rating, · 45.7k ratings
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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Heather McGhee
4.62 average rating, · 22.3k ratings
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The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
4.35 average rating, · 34.2k ratings
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Black Like Me
John Howard Griffin
4.11 average rating, · 70.2k ratings
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.38 average rating, · 31.2k ratings
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Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
Akala
4.53 average rating, · 22.9k ratings
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Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
Emmanuel Acho
4.38 average rating, · 29.5k ratings
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