19 best-selling nonfiction books like On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care by Victor Ray

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On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care

By: Victor Ray

4.35

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

What exactly is critical race theory? This concise and accessible exploration demystifies a crucial…

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1. Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity

By: Bruce Bawer

3.57

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

From the author of the widely acclaimed A Place at the Table, this is a major work, passionately ou… read more

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2. Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States

By: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

4.11

Format: 14 pages,

This edition includes a chapter examining the Obama mysterythe election of a black President even t… read more

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3. White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America

By: Anthea Butler

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelic… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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4. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

By: Michael Harriot

4.59

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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5. Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable

By: Joanna Schwartz

4.47

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police mis… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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6. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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7. On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care

By: Victor Ray

4.35

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

What exactly is critical race theory? This concise and accessible exploration demystifies a crucial… read more

Similar categories in Victor Ray's On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care book and Victor Ray's On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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8. They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

By: Sarah Kendzior

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE “Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-see… read more

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  • history
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  • audiobook
"The word “conspire"

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

"The desire to forget is as overwhelming as the obligation not to."

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

"History was a feedback loop of unlearned lessons and reverberating lies."

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

"There is no such thing as paranoia; your worst fears can come true at any moment,"

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

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9. The Trayvon Generation

By: Elizabeth Alexander

4.36

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet comes a galvanizing m… read more

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  • race
  • history
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  • sociology
  • audiobook
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10. Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next

By: Bradley Onishi

4.33

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

Watching the eerie footage of the January 6 insurrection, Bradley Onishi wondered: If I hadn't left… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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11. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

By: Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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12. One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy

By: Dominic Erdozain

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second A… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • law
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  • sociology
  • audiobook
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13. American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress

By: Wesley Lowery

4.18

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of  How to Be an Ant… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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14. The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens

By: Richard N. Haass

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A New York Times Bestseller A provocative guide to how we must reenvision citizenship if Americ… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • law
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  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin M. Kruse

15. Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

By: Kevin M. Kruse

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In this instant New York Times  bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the… read more

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  • race
  • history
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  • audiobook
"Violence meant to seize and shore up power—a claim to sovereignty through the violence of the mob—is fundamentally American."

-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

"Although in this case it is an understandable, emotional reaction meant to decry antidemocratic violence, the notion that January 6 is 'not who we are' is one manifestation of what has become a regul…"

-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

"People may hear ‘white nationalism’ and assume it to be adjacent with patriotism, or at the very least consider it as pro-American. But after 1983 the nation at the heart of white nationalism was not…"

-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

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16. Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns

By: Gregg Colburn

4.23

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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17. Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity

By: Donald Yacovone

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s … read more

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  • social justice
  • education
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18. In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies

By: Dianna E. Anderson

4.11

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

For decades, our cultural discourse around trans and gender-diverse people has been viewed through … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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19. Asian American Histories of the United States (ReVisioning History)

By: Catherine Ceniza Choy

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An inclusive and landmark history, emphasizing how essential Asian American experiences are to any … read more

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20. The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future

By: Robert P. Jones

4.55

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, and examining contemporary communities… read more

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  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy by Federico Finchelstein

21. The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy

By: Federico Finchelstein

4.10

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Meet today's almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept them on the road from populis… read more

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  • nonfiction

18 must-read audiobook books like On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care by Victor Ray

Transform Your Habits

White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America

Anthea Butler

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Michael Harriot

4.59

Transform Your Habits

Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable

Joanna Schwartz

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

4.27

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21 must-read audiobook books like The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens by Richard N. Haass

Transform Your Habits

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

4.45

Transform Your Habits

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

Liz Cheney

4.60

Transform Your Habits

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

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