12 must-read audiobook books like White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

By: Robin DiAngelo

4.17

Format: 7 pages, Audiobook

Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility i…

"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"For those of us who work to raise the racial consciousness of whites, simply getting whites to acknowledge that our race gives us advantages is a major effort. The defensiveness, denial, and resistance are deep."

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

If you liked the audiobook plot in White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults, and Beliefs

By: Steven Hassan

4.25

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

In the post 911 world, people are more susceptible than ever to charismatic figures who offer simpl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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2. Between the World and Me

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live wi… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"Soft or hard, love was an act of heroism."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

"My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

"I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

"You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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3. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

By: Matthew Desmond

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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4. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

By: Richard Rothstein

2.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
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5. The Fire Next Time

By: James Baldwin

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction

6. "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity

By: Beverly Daniel Tatum

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism-now fully revised and updated Walk into … read more

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7. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

By: Michelle Alexander

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more

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8. What′s the Matter with White People? Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was

By: None

3.71

Format: None pages, Hardcover

How scapegoat politics is dividing America and bankrupting the middle class The size and stability … read more

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9. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race

By: Reni Eddo-Lodge

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Hardcover

'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more

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10. The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism Is Seducing America

By: Drew Pinsky , None

3.87

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

In the eye-opening New York Times bestseller, The Mirror Effect, widely respected addiction and beh… read more

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11. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.54

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Blac… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • sociology
  • audiobook

12. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

By: Carol Anderson

3.67

Format: 208 pages,

From the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our cont… read more

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13. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

By: Isabel Wilkerson

4.53

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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14. 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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15. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

By: Mikki Kendall

4.37

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream femi… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
"Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"I tell you this story because sometimes the story of your life is the story of a lot of lives."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"Mainstream, white-centered feminism hasn't just failed women of color, it has failed white women."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn't set a standard that can protect any woman."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

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16. How to Be an Antiracist

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.37

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justi… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Racist"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"I use “anticapitalist"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"Internalized racism is the real Black on Black crime."

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"But what was the difference between Ebonics and so-called “standard"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

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17. Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man

By: Emmanuel Acho

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have.” So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide… read more

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  • self help
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
"It's not white people's job to police the feelings of black people, but as fellow human beings, please rant black people the right to the full gamut of emotions regarding their wounds."

-Emmanuel Acho, Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man

"White privilege is about the word white, not rich. It's having advantage built into your life. It's not saying your life hasn't been hard; it's saying your skin color hasn't contributed to the diffic…"

-Emmanuel Acho, Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man

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18. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

By: Robin DiAngelo

4.17

Format: 7 pages, Audiobook

Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility i… read more

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  • self help
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow."

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"For those of us who work to raise the racial consciousness of whites, simply getting whites to acknowledge that our race gives us advantages is a major effort. The defensiveness, denial, and resistan…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"How can I say that if you are white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant, when I don't even know you? I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we ne…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

"Habitus maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways. .... Thus, white fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of ra…"

-Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

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19. I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

By: Austin Channing Brown

4.38

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian,… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • audiobook
"I am not a priest for the white soul."

-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

"Rare is the ministry praying that they would be worthy of the giftedness of Black minds and hearts."

-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

"This is the shadow of hope. Knowing that we may never see the realization of our dreams, and yet still showing up."

-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

"Reconciliation is the pursuit of the impossible - and upside-down world where those who are powerful have relinquished that power to the margins"

-Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

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20. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

By: Layla F. Saad

4.34

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that the… read more

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  • self help
  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"You do not have to be the loudest voice. But you do need to use your voice."

-Layla F. Saad, Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

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21. So You Want to Talk About Race

By: Ijeoma Oluo

4.49

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from w… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Conversations on racism should never be about winning."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

"Our humanity is worth a little discomfort, it's actually worth a lot of discomfort."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

"Our police forces were created not to protect Americans of color, but to control Americans of color."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

"When we say ‘Asian American’ we are talking about so much more than can be fit in a single stereotype."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

10 must-read history books like White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

Transform Your Habits

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

3.37

Transform Your Habits

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

2.89

Transform Your Habits

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

3.54

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8 must-read history books like The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Transform Your Habits

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

Transform Your Habits

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Assata: An Autobiography

Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds

4.80

Transform Your Habits

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James Baldwin

3.54

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