Race


Listen to Your Sister
Junie
Needy Little Things
Harlem Rhapsody
People of Means
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
The Edge of Water
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
Good Dirt
Death of the Author
You'll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist
Blob: A Love Story
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
We Rip the World Apart
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
James
Yellowface
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
The Vanishing Half
Good Dirt
Finding Me
Horse
The Personal Librarian
Real Americans
The Message
The House of Eve
The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
Black Cake
A Calamity of Souls
All the Sinners Bleed
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine HansberryFences by August WilsonDutchman & The Slave by Amiri BarakaPorgy and Bess Fantasy for Two Pianos by George GershwinFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rain... by Ntozake Shange
African American Plays
42 books — 32 voters
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
How Capitalism Destroys Everything
206 books — 90 voters

Hunger by Roxane GayDear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSouth and West by Joan DidionThe Radium Girls by Kate  MooreThe Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
2017 Non-male Non-Fiction
244 books — 71 voters
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund MorrisThe Island at the Center of the World by Russell ShortoMornings on Horseback by David McCulloughThe Power Broker by Robert A. CaroGotham by Edwin G. Burrows
New York State History (nonfiction)
202 books — 33 voters

Between the World and Me
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
So You Want to Talk About Race
How to Be an Antiracist
The Hate U Give
The Fire Next Time
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
The Vanishing Half
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Just Mercy
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care. ...more
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

ONE BUT MANY One God, many faces. One family, many races. One truth, many paths. One heart, many complexions. One light, many reflections. One world, many imperfections. ONE. We are all one, But many.
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

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