books i've read about race
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4 stars
A world renowned author, scholar, public intellectual, and activist, bell hooks was 19 years old when she wrote Ain't I …
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Killing the black body by Dorothy E. Roberts
5 stars
This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights …
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What White People Can Do Next by Emma Dabiri
4 stars
We need to talk about racial injustice in a different way: one that builds on the revolutionary ideas of the …
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Fatal invention by Dorothy E. Roberts
5 stars
Explores the ways science, politics, and large corporations affect race in the twenty-first century, discussing the efforts and results of …
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4 stars
"Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and …
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Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington, Ron Butler
4 stars
From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling …
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The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
5 stars
From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos — and a call …
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Hitler's American Model by James Q. Whitman
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How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany. Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim …
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As Long as Grass Grows by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
4 stars
The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from …
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Not "A Nation of Immigrants" by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
4 stars
Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to …
